1. COPING WITH INTERCONNECT

2. Impact of Interconnect Parasitics

3. Nature of Interconnect

4. INTERCONNECT

5. Capacitance: The Parallel Plate Model

6. Typical Wiring Capacitance Values

7. Fringing Capacitance

8. Fringing Capacitance: Values

9. How to counter Clock Skew?

10. Interwire Capacitance

11. Interwire Capacitance

12. Impact of Interwire Capacitance

13. Capacitance Crosstalk

14. How to Battle Capacitive Crosstalk

15. Driving Large Capacitances

16. Using Cascaded Buffers

17. tp in function of u and x

18. Impact of Cascading Buffers

19. Output Driver Design

20. How to Design Large Transistors

21. Bonding Pad Design Bonding Pad GND 100 mm Out VDD Out In GND

22. Reducing the swing • Reducing the swing potentially yields linear reduction in delay • Also results in reduction in power dissipation • Requires use of “sense amplifier” to restore signal level

23. INTERCONNECT

24. Wire Resistance

25. Interconnect Resistance

26. Dealing with Resistance

27. Polycide Gate Mosfet

28. Modern Interconnect

29. RI Introduced Noise

30. Power and Ground Distribution

31. Electromigration (1)

32. Electromigration (2)

33. RC-Delay

34. RC-Models

35. Reducing RC-delay Repeater

36. The Ellmore Delay

37. Penfield-Rubinstein-Horowitz

38. INTERCONNECT

39. Inductive Effects in Integrated Circuits

40. L di/dt

41. L di/dt: Simulation

42. Choosing the Right Pin

43. Decoupling Capacitors

44. Packaging

45. Bonding Techniques

46. Tape-Automated Bonding (TAB)

47. Flip-Chip Bonding

48. Package-to-Board Interconnect

49. Package Types

50. Package Parameters