Overview

The goal of putting ""systems on a chip"" has been a difficult challenge that is only recently being met. Since the world is ""analogue"", putting systems on a chip requires putting analogue interfaces on the same chip as digital processing functions. Since some processing functions are accomplished more efficiently in analog circuitry, chips with a large amount of analogue and digital circuitry are being designed. Whether a small amount of analogue circuitry is combined with varying amounts of digital circuitry or the other way around, the problem encountered in marrying analogue and digital circuitry are the same but with different scope. Some of the most prevalent problems are chip/package capacitive and inductive coupling, ringing on the RLC tuned circuits that form the chip/package power supply rails and off-chip drivers and receivers, coupling between circuits through the chip substrate bulk, and radiated emissions from the chip/package interconnects. To aggravate the problems of designers who have to deal with the complexity of mixed-signal coupling there is a lack of verification techniques to simulate the problem. This text addresses two major issues of the mixed-signal coupling problem - how to simulate it and how to overcome it. It identifies some of the problems that will be encountered, gives examples of actual hardware experiences, offers simulation techniques and suggests possible solutions. Readers of this book should come away with a clear directive to simulate their design for interactions prior to building the design, versus a ""build it and see"" mentality.

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Author:   Nishath K. Verghese ,  Timothy J. Schmerbeck ,  David J. Allstot ,  David J. Allstot (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA)
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   1995 ed.
Volume:   302
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.629kg
ISBN:  

9780792395447

ISBN 10:   0792395441
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   31 December 1994
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1 Introduction.- 2 Sources of Noise and Methods of Coupling.- 2.1 Semiconductor Device Noise and Phenomena.- 2.2 Noise from Switching Voltage and Current.- 2.3 Inductive Coupling.- 2.4 Capacitive Coupling.- 2.5 Substrate Coupling.- 2.6 Summary.- 3 Semiconductor Device Simulation.- 3.1 Significance.- 3.2 Basic Equations.- 3.3 Boundary Conditions.- 3.4 Models of Physical Parameters.- 3.5 Spatial Discretization.- 3.6 Solution Methods.- 3.7 A Representative Example.- 3.8 Summary.- 4 Simplified Substrate Modeling and Rapid Simulation.- 4.1 Simplified Equation.- 4.2 Spatial Discretization.- 4.3 Boundary Conditions.- 4.4 Solution Methods.- 4.5 Asymptotic Waveform Evaluation (AWE).- 4.6 Substrate AWE Macromodels.- 4.7 Transient Simulation of AWE Macromodels.- 4.8 Substrate DC Macromodels.- 4.9 Matrix Solution.- 4.10 Results.- 4.11 Summary.- 5 Mesh Generation.- 5.1 Adaptive Mesh Refinement.- 5.2 A Priori Mesh Refinement.- 5.3 Summary.- 6 Substrate Modeling in Heavily-Doped Bulk Processes.- 6.1 Motivation.- 6.2 Single Node Substrate Model.- 6.3 Modified Single Node Substrate Model.- 6.4 Summary.- 7 Substrate Resistance Extraction for Large Circuits.- 7.1 Nested Macromodeling.- 7.2 Interpolated Macromodeling.- 7.3 Summary.- 8 Modeling Chip/Package Power Distribution.- 8.1 Effect of Power Bus Structure on Noise coupling.- 8.2 Summary.- 9 Controlling Substrate Coupling in Heavily-Doped Bulk Processes.- 9.1 Characterization of noise coupling concepts.- 9.2 P+ Bulk Wafer Characterization.- 9.3 Effect of Substrate contact placement on coupled noise.- 9.4 Effect of Package Inductance on Substrate noise.- 9.5 Noise Coupling Control Techniques.- 9.6 Summary.- 10 Controlling Substrate Coupling in Bulk P- Wafers.- 10.1 Bulk P- Wafer Characteristics.- 10.2 Substrate Attenuation Structures.-10.3 Summary.- 11 Chip/Package Shielding and Good Circuit Design Practice.- 11.1 Far Field Radiated Emissions.- 11.2 Effect of Chip Signal Isolation/Shielding Techniques on Noise.- 11.3 Effect of Packaging on Noise.- 11.4 Effect of Card Layout and Referencing on Noise.- 11.5 Effect of Circuit Topology on Noise.- 11.6 Summary.- 12 A Design Example.- 12.1 Design of a Mixed-Signal IC.- 12.2 Summary.- Appendices.- A Mesh Moments.- B Convergence Behaviour of Iterative Methods.

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