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Hybrid Numerical-Analytic Techniques for Power Integrity and Signal Integrity Modeling of Microelectronic Systems Student: Mosin Mondal Funding: National Science Foundation
Mosin Mondal, Samuel Connor, Bruce Archambeault and Vikram Jandhyala, “Including the Impact of Connecting Vias in the Performance Metric Evaluation for Board-Level Optimization of Decoupling Capacitors”, in Proceedings of IEEE Electrical Performance of Electrical Packaging (EPEP), October 2008. [pdf] Mosin Mondal, Samuel Connor, Bruce Archambeault and Vikram Jandhyala, “Fast Frequency Domain Crosstalk Analysis for Board-Level EMC Rule Checking and Optimization,” in Proceedings of IEEE EMC Symposium, August 2008. [pdf]
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Power integrity is a critical part of modern microelectronic design. Tighter design constraints, smaller voltage swings and noise margins, shorter rise times, and low-power requirements have all led to significant challenges. Signal integrity is already a major challenge especially in the presence of high-speed parallel and serial interfaces pushing data in the high Gb/s in video and related multimedia applications. The ACE lab has in the past developed extensive simulation suites based on advances in 3d full-wave electromagnetic simulation, including those licensed to the recently-founded startup Physware, Inc. However, significant challenges remain. In particular, how can approximate techniques, that are orders of magnitude faster than even these state of the art solvers, be hybridized with analytic and numerical methods in order to generate both the required accuracy, and the speed needed for design? This project deals with this question by deriving new hybrid and cross-layer simulation methodologies for signal and power integrity.