ECE 558 Introduction to VLSI Design

ECE 658 (NTU IC740-A) VLSI Design Principles

Lecture 6 (Fall 2006)

LECTURE SLIDES :- pdf

This lecture deals with wires or interconnects.

• Why wires cannot be ignored?
• Wire parasitics and their impact.
• Capacitance of interconnect and types.
• Interconnect Resistance and types.
• Interconnect inductance and is it important?
• RC and RLC models

Coming up in next lecture

• CMOS Inverter:  DC characteristics, Power, Noise Margins, etc.