Driver modeling and alignment for worst-case delay noise
Proceedings of the 38th annual Design Automation Conference
Incremental delay change due to crosstalk noise
Proceedings of the 2002 international symposium on Physical design
Efficient switching window computation for cross-talk noise
Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE international workshop on Timing issues in the specification and synthesis of digital systems
Worst Delay Estimation in Crosstalk Aware Static Timing Analysis
ICCD '00 Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE International Conference on Computer Design: VLSI in Computers & Processors
Driver modeling and alignment for worst-case delay noise
IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems
Static timing analysis using backward signal propagation
Proceedings of the 41st annual Design Automation Conference
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Crosstalk is generally recognized as a major problem in IC design. This paper presents a novel approach to the efficient measurement of the effect of crosstalk on the delay of a net using an algorithm whose worst-case complexity is polynomial-time in the number of nets. The cost of the algorithm is seen to be O(nlogn) in practice, where n is the number of nets, and it is amenable to being incorporated into the inner loop of a timing optimizer. To illustrate this, the method is applied to reduce the effects of crosstalk in channel routing, where it is seen to give an average improvement of 23% in the delay in a channel as compared to the worst case, as measured by SPICE.