Model Pulses for Performance Prediction of Digital Microelectronic Systems

Abstract

Pulse-shape models are presented that furnish the tools for analyzing a number of aspects of the performance of microelectronic circuits. Model pulse shapes are provided and their properties are analyzed in detail. Applications that are covered include the replication of measured pulses that are of relevance for inter-and intra-chip interconnects and, concurrently, examples of passive circuits that generate them. The pulses are appropriate as input to time-domain electromagnetic simulation. They are also instrumental to microelectronic performance prediction protocols and measurement equipmentaspects that are of crucial importance to integrated circuit packaging.

UWB pulse radio transceivers and antennas: Considerations on design and implementation

“…Moreover, monocycle pulses may lead to have a lower level of unwanted coupling on chip and a cleaner propagation channel on air, which is typically affected by unavoidable reflections from the surrounding environments. Overall, in principle monocycle pulses could allow us to have lower level of interferences, be they in the propagation on a physical substrate (on chip) [13] and/or in air, which correspond to a lower level of noise, a) b) Fig. 6.…”

Time-domain analysis of the pulsed EM field in planarly layered configurations: Principles and software implementation

“…The pulse is taken as the normalized, timedifferentiated, power exponential pulse [20], with unit amplitude and parameters ν = 5 and t 0x = 0.1 ns (ensuring that the radiator is electrically small [8]). The material parameters in the con guration are given in Table I.…”

Causal Pulses With Rectangular Spectral Content: A Tool for TD Analysis of UWB Antenna Performance

“…A convenient choice for the modulation in (9) is the threeparameter IEC 60050-IEV normalized power exponential (PE) pulse defined as [8] …”

“…Alternatively, [8] presented a family of model pulses whose mathematical form explicitly takes causality into account. Those pulses allow mimicking actual pulse shapes that arise from measurements carried out on integrated circuits.…”

“…This letter discusses a modality to construct causal model pulses that conform to the two requirements mentioned above. The most adequate results will be obtained by modulating a sinc-cosine function by means of a power exponential pulse [8].…”