Pub Date : 2010-03-22DOI: 10.1109/ISQED.2010.5450533
Y. Hu, Yin Lin Chung, Mely Chen Chi
In this paper, we propose a multilevel multilayer partitioning algorithm for 3D ICs application. The algorithm is based on the multilevel framework to coarsen the netlist successively. A multilayer partitioning procedure is applied on each level of partition during the un-coarsening process. The objective is to minimize the total number of Through Silicon Via (TSV) while observing the area constraint for each layer. The area of each layer is the summation of circuit area and TSV area. The partitioning algorithm is customized for the structure of 3D ICs. We utilize a FM-like data structure and identify eight critical net distributions such that after a cell move, the program can update gains very effectively. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can effectively produce good results with small numbers of TSV, area overhead, and area coefficient of variation for the tested industrial cases. The average area overhead is only 1.84% that shows the average white space is very small. The average area coefficient of variation is only 2.61% that shows area distribution of all layers is very uniform. The results also achieve the best average value for both number of TSVs and chip area, compared to all participating teams in “Design Partition for 3D ICs” problem in the IC/CAD 2009 contest in Taiwan.
{"title":"A multilevel multilayer partitioning algorithm for three dimensional integrated circuits","authors":"Y. Hu, Yin Lin Chung, Mely Chen Chi","doi":"10.1109/ISQED.2010.5450533","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISQED.2010.5450533","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a multilevel multilayer partitioning algorithm for 3D ICs application. The algorithm is based on the multilevel framework to coarsen the netlist successively. A multilayer partitioning procedure is applied on each level of partition during the un-coarsening process. The objective is to minimize the total number of Through Silicon Via (TSV) while observing the area constraint for each layer. The area of each layer is the summation of circuit area and TSV area. The partitioning algorithm is customized for the structure of 3D ICs. We utilize a FM-like data structure and identify eight critical net distributions such that after a cell move, the program can update gains very effectively. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can effectively produce good results with small numbers of TSV, area overhead, and area coefficient of variation for the tested industrial cases. The average area overhead is only 1.84% that shows the average white space is very small. The average area coefficient of variation is only 2.61% that shows area distribution of all layers is very uniform. The results also achieve the best average value for both number of TSVs and chip area, compared to all participating teams in “Design Partition for 3D ICs” problem in the IC/CAD 2009 contest in Taiwan.","PeriodicalId":369046,"journal":{"name":"2010 11th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134216587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2010-03-22DOI: 10.1109/ISQED.2010.5450517
R. Datta, M. Warhadpande, D. Heaton, S. Aarthi, R. Jonnavithula
Significant growth in demand for mixed signal parts, and an increased level of integration of such parts into SOCs have created or exacerbated several test related challenges. Techniques like design-for-testability (DFT) have been applied to overcome some of these challenges. In this paper, we present case studies of one of the most common DFT techniques for mixed-signal devices, namely, analog loopback testing of data converters. Theoretical analysis of loopback testing is presented, along with silicon test results for stand-alone, internal loopback and external loopback testing of data converter in an industrial chip. These results are used to evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of these two variants of mixed-signal DFT, i.e., internal and external loopback testing of data converters.
{"title":"Case studies of mixed-signal DFT","authors":"R. Datta, M. Warhadpande, D. Heaton, S. Aarthi, R. Jonnavithula","doi":"10.1109/ISQED.2010.5450517","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISQED.2010.5450517","url":null,"abstract":"Significant growth in demand for mixed signal parts, and an increased level of integration of such parts into SOCs have created or exacerbated several test related challenges. Techniques like design-for-testability (DFT) have been applied to overcome some of these challenges. In this paper, we present case studies of one of the most common DFT techniques for mixed-signal devices, namely, analog loopback testing of data converters. Theoretical analysis of loopback testing is presented, along with silicon test results for stand-alone, internal loopback and external loopback testing of data converter in an industrial chip. These results are used to evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of these two variants of mixed-signal DFT, i.e., internal and external loopback testing of data converters.","PeriodicalId":369046,"journal":{"name":"2010 11th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED)","volume":"161 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127290711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2010-03-22DOI: 10.1109/ISQED.2010.5450467
J. Mathew, H. Rahaman, A. Jabir, S. Mohanty, D. Pradhan
Recent studies have shown that an attacker can retrieve confidential information from cryptographic hardware (e.g. the secret key) by introducing internal faults. A secure and reliable implementation of cryptographic algorithms in hardware must be able to detect or correct such malicious attacks. Error detection/correction (EDC), through fault tolerance, could be an effective way to mitigate such fault attacks in cryptographic hardware. To this end, we analyze the area, delay, and power overhead for designing the S-Box, which is one of the main complex blocks in the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), with error detection and correction capability. We use multiple Parity Predictions (PPs), based on various error correcting codes, to detect and correct errors. Various coding techniques are presented, which include simple parity prediction, split parity codes, Hamming, Hsiao, and LDPC codes. The S-Box, GF(p), and PP circuits are synthesized from the specifications, while the decoding and correction circuits are combined to form the complete designs. The analysis shows a comparison of the different approaches characterized by their error detection capability.
{"title":"On the design of different concurrent EDC schemes for S-Box and GF(p)","authors":"J. Mathew, H. Rahaman, A. Jabir, S. Mohanty, D. Pradhan","doi":"10.1109/ISQED.2010.5450467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISQED.2010.5450467","url":null,"abstract":"Recent studies have shown that an attacker can retrieve confidential information from cryptographic hardware (e.g. the secret key) by introducing internal faults. A secure and reliable implementation of cryptographic algorithms in hardware must be able to detect or correct such malicious attacks. Error detection/correction (EDC), through fault tolerance, could be an effective way to mitigate such fault attacks in cryptographic hardware. To this end, we analyze the area, delay, and power overhead for designing the S-Box, which is one of the main complex blocks in the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), with error detection and correction capability. We use multiple Parity Predictions (PPs), based on various error correcting codes, to detect and correct errors. Various coding techniques are presented, which include simple parity prediction, split parity codes, Hamming, Hsiao, and LDPC codes. The S-Box, GF(p), and PP circuits are synthesized from the specifications, while the decoding and correction circuits are combined to form the complete designs. The analysis shows a comparison of the different approaches characterized by their error detection capability.","PeriodicalId":369046,"journal":{"name":"2010 11th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130730149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2010-03-22DOI: 10.1109/ISQED.2010.5450539
Huang Huang, Gang Quan, Jeffrey Fan
As the semiconductor technology continues its marching toward the deep sub-micron domain, the strong relation between leakage current and temperature becomes critical in power-aware and thermal-aware design for electronic systems. Previous circuit-level research results can capture the leakage/temperature dependency accurately, but can be too complex and thus ineffective in high level system design. In this paper, we study a large spectrum of leakage power models that are able to account for the leakage/temperature dependency, and in the meantime, are simple enough and suitable for system level design. We analyze and compare the tradeoff between the complexity and accuracy of these models empirically. Our experimental results strengthen the important role that the leakage power consumption plays in the electronic system design as the transistor size continues to shrink. More importantly, our results highlight the fact that it is vital to take the leakage/temperature and leakage/supply voltage dependency into considerations for high level power and thermal aware system level design.
{"title":"Leakage temperature dependency modeling in system level analysis","authors":"Huang Huang, Gang Quan, Jeffrey Fan","doi":"10.1109/ISQED.2010.5450539","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISQED.2010.5450539","url":null,"abstract":"As the semiconductor technology continues its marching toward the deep sub-micron domain, the strong relation between leakage current and temperature becomes critical in power-aware and thermal-aware design for electronic systems. Previous circuit-level research results can capture the leakage/temperature dependency accurately, but can be too complex and thus ineffective in high level system design. In this paper, we study a large spectrum of leakage power models that are able to account for the leakage/temperature dependency, and in the meantime, are simple enough and suitable for system level design. We analyze and compare the tradeoff between the complexity and accuracy of these models empirically. Our experimental results strengthen the important role that the leakage power consumption plays in the electronic system design as the transistor size continues to shrink. More importantly, our results highlight the fact that it is vital to take the leakage/temperature and leakage/supply voltage dependency into considerations for high level power and thermal aware system level design.","PeriodicalId":369046,"journal":{"name":"2010 11th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED)","volume":"218 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133410279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2010-03-22DOI: 10.1109/ISQED.2010.5450445
J. Bickford, N. Habib, John Goss, R. McMahon, R. Joshi, R. Kanj
Use of a Scaling Parametric Macro (SPM) provides more accurate product level environment parametric information than scribe line (Kerf) structures. This paper compares drive current (Ion) data obtained with the SPM macros to scribe line structure Ion measurements. SPM macros provide less variation than scribe line structures. Since SPM is small enough to be included in all products, the SPM macro provides improved Ion product screening
{"title":"Use of scalable Parametric Measurement Macro to improve semiconductor technology characterization and product test","authors":"J. Bickford, N. Habib, John Goss, R. McMahon, R. Joshi, R. Kanj","doi":"10.1109/ISQED.2010.5450445","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISQED.2010.5450445","url":null,"abstract":"Use of a Scaling Parametric Macro (SPM) provides more accurate product level environment parametric information than scribe line (Kerf) structures. This paper compares drive current (Ion) data obtained with the SPM macros to scribe line structure Ion measurements. SPM macros provide less variation than scribe line structures. Since SPM is small enough to be included in all products, the SPM macro provides improved Ion product screening","PeriodicalId":369046,"journal":{"name":"2010 11th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133289265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2010-03-22DOI: 10.1109/ISQED.2010.5450477
X. Pan, H. Graeb
As semiconductor technology scales, manufacture process-related statistical variations and lifetime-dependent degradations contribute directly to the fluctuations of transistor parameters and circuit performances. Considering alone either the static process variation or the nominal lifetime degradation cannot ensure a robust design during the entire lifetime. It is thus highly necessary to obtain lifetime degradation information considering underlying process variation early at design phase. This paper establishes an innovative framework to predict the analog circuit behavior in its lifetime considering both process variations and degradation effects based on geometric lifetime yield analysis using worst-case distance degradation rate. Compared to Monte-Carlo-based methods and numerical optimization solutions, only performance and statistical parameter sensitivity analysis are required in the proposed framework.
{"title":"Reliability analysis of analog circuits by lifetime yield prediction using worst-case distance degradation rate","authors":"X. Pan, H. Graeb","doi":"10.1109/ISQED.2010.5450477","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISQED.2010.5450477","url":null,"abstract":"As semiconductor technology scales, manufacture process-related statistical variations and lifetime-dependent degradations contribute directly to the fluctuations of transistor parameters and circuit performances. Considering alone either the static process variation or the nominal lifetime degradation cannot ensure a robust design during the entire lifetime. It is thus highly necessary to obtain lifetime degradation information considering underlying process variation early at design phase. This paper establishes an innovative framework to predict the analog circuit behavior in its lifetime considering both process variations and degradation effects based on geometric lifetime yield analysis using worst-case distance degradation rate. Compared to Monte-Carlo-based methods and numerical optimization solutions, only performance and statistical parameter sensitivity analysis are required in the proposed framework.","PeriodicalId":369046,"journal":{"name":"2010 11th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114244924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2010-03-22DOI: 10.1109/ISQED.2010.5450542
Chenyue Ma, Hao Wang, Xiufang Zhang, F. He, Yadong He, Xing Zhang, Xinnan Lin
This paper presents the asymmetric issue of FinFET device after hot carrier injection (HCI) effect and impact on the digital and analog circuits. The interface state distribution along the FinFET channel is first extracted from hot carrier injection experimental data, and then develops a compact FinFET model to simulate the impact on asymmetric distribution of interface states to the device characteristics. The results show that the asymmetric degradation is much more significant in Ids-Vds characteristics than in Ids-Vgs characteristics. On the other hand, digital and analogy circuits exhibit different asymmetric performance degradation in various operation cases.
{"title":"Asymmetric issues of FinFET device after hot carrier injection and impact on digital and analog circuits","authors":"Chenyue Ma, Hao Wang, Xiufang Zhang, F. He, Yadong He, Xing Zhang, Xinnan Lin","doi":"10.1109/ISQED.2010.5450542","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISQED.2010.5450542","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the asymmetric issue of FinFET device after hot carrier injection (HCI) effect and impact on the digital and analog circuits. The interface state distribution along the FinFET channel is first extracted from hot carrier injection experimental data, and then develops a compact FinFET model to simulate the impact on asymmetric distribution of interface states to the device characteristics. The results show that the asymmetric degradation is much more significant in Ids-Vds characteristics than in Ids-Vgs characteristics. On the other hand, digital and analogy circuits exhibit different asymmetric performance degradation in various operation cases.","PeriodicalId":369046,"journal":{"name":"2010 11th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED)","volume":"139 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133662413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2010-03-22DOI: 10.1109/ISQED.2010.5450392
Yang Liu, A. Srivastava
Two CMOS phase-locked loop chips are designed and fabricated in 0.5 µm n-well CMOS process using single-ended voltage-controlled oscillator and differential voltage-controlled oscillator circuits. Hot carrier effects, jitter and phase noise performances are investigated and analyzed. On-chip measured experimental results show that for the phaselocked loop with the single-ended voltage-controlled oscillator working at 500 MHz carrier frequency, phase noise is −76 dBc/Hz at 10 kHz offset frequency and −119 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset frequency. For the phase-locked loop with differential voltage-controlled oscillator working at 500 MHz, phase noise reaches −82 dBc/Hz at 1 kHz offset frequency and −122 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset frequency. Tuning frequencies of the two phase-locked loops decrease about 100–200 MHz when subjected to four hours of hot carrier stress. The single-ended VCO gain decreases from 260 MHz to 70 MHz due to hot carrier stress. For the phase-locked loop with the differential voltage-controlled oscillator, a 50 ps RMS jitter increase is observed under hot carrier stress.
{"title":"Hot carrier effects on CMOS phase-locked loop frequency synthesizers","authors":"Yang Liu, A. Srivastava","doi":"10.1109/ISQED.2010.5450392","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISQED.2010.5450392","url":null,"abstract":"Two CMOS phase-locked loop chips are designed and fabricated in 0.5 µm n-well CMOS process using single-ended voltage-controlled oscillator and differential voltage-controlled oscillator circuits. Hot carrier effects, jitter and phase noise performances are investigated and analyzed. On-chip measured experimental results show that for the phaselocked loop with the single-ended voltage-controlled oscillator working at 500 MHz carrier frequency, phase noise is −76 dBc/Hz at 10 kHz offset frequency and −119 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset frequency. For the phase-locked loop with differential voltage-controlled oscillator working at 500 MHz, phase noise reaches −82 dBc/Hz at 1 kHz offset frequency and −122 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset frequency. Tuning frequencies of the two phase-locked loops decrease about 100–200 MHz when subjected to four hours of hot carrier stress. The single-ended VCO gain decreases from 260 MHz to 70 MHz due to hot carrier stress. For the phase-locked loop with the differential voltage-controlled oscillator, a 50 ps RMS jitter increase is observed under hot carrier stress.","PeriodicalId":369046,"journal":{"name":"2010 11th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132807953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2010-03-22DOI: 10.1109/ISQED.2010.5450490
Derek Chan, Matthew R. Guthaus
This paper studies multi-core clock distribution using active deskewing methods. We propose an efficient methodology that uses Verilog-A to model PLLs, clock trees and power supply variation in multi-core designs. Using the methodology, we compare four different de-skewing topologies (region-based, linear, ring, and a tree) for nominal performance and robustness to power supply variation. We conclude that under nominal conditions, the ring and line topologies are better with a large number of cores, but, when power supply is considered, the region topology is best.
{"title":"Analysis of power supply induced jitter in actively de-skewed multi-core systems","authors":"Derek Chan, Matthew R. Guthaus","doi":"10.1109/ISQED.2010.5450490","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISQED.2010.5450490","url":null,"abstract":"This paper studies multi-core clock distribution using active deskewing methods. We propose an efficient methodology that uses Verilog-A to model PLLs, clock trees and power supply variation in multi-core designs. Using the methodology, we compare four different de-skewing topologies (region-based, linear, ring, and a tree) for nominal performance and robustness to power supply variation. We conclude that under nominal conditions, the ring and line topologies are better with a large number of cores, but, when power supply is considered, the region topology is best.","PeriodicalId":369046,"journal":{"name":"2010 11th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED)","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133422942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2010-03-22DOI: 10.1109/ISQED.2010.5450511
Peng Du, Xiang Hu, Shih-Hung Weng, A. S. Arani, Xiaoming Chen, A. Engin, Chung-Kuan Cheng
A novel method of predicting the worst-case noise of a power distribution system is proposed in this paper. This method takes into account the effect of the transition time of load currents, and thus allows a more realistic worst-case noise prediction. A dynamic programming algorithm is introduced on the time-domain impulse response of the power distribution system, and a modified Knuth-Yao Quadrangle Inequality Speedup is developed which reduces the time complexity of the algorithm to O(nmlog n), where n is the number of discretized current values and m is the number of zeros of the system impulse response. With the algorithm, the worst-case noise behavior of the power distribution system is investigated with respect to the transition time. Experimental results show that assuming a zero current transition time leads to an overly pessimistic worst-case noise prediction.
{"title":"Worst-case noise prediction with non-zero current transition times for early power distribution system verification","authors":"Peng Du, Xiang Hu, Shih-Hung Weng, A. S. Arani, Xiaoming Chen, A. Engin, Chung-Kuan Cheng","doi":"10.1109/ISQED.2010.5450511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISQED.2010.5450511","url":null,"abstract":"A novel method of predicting the worst-case noise of a power distribution system is proposed in this paper. This method takes into account the effect of the transition time of load currents, and thus allows a more realistic worst-case noise prediction. A dynamic programming algorithm is introduced on the time-domain impulse response of the power distribution system, and a modified Knuth-Yao Quadrangle Inequality Speedup is developed which reduces the time complexity of the algorithm to O(nmlog n), where n is the number of discretized current values and m is the number of zeros of the system impulse response. With the algorithm, the worst-case noise behavior of the power distribution system is investigated with respect to the transition time. Experimental results show that assuming a zero current transition time leads to an overly pessimistic worst-case noise prediction.","PeriodicalId":369046,"journal":{"name":"2010 11th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116542441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}