Akira Tsukizoe

Wire sizing considering skin effect for high frequency circuits

This paper proposes wire sizing considering skin effect. Previous work on wire sizing usually uses RC model which is independent of frequency. However, as increasing operating frequency, frequency-dependence of interconnect characteristics is becoming significant. Therefore, in interconnect design and analysis, frequency-dependence must be considered. By wire sizing considering frequency-dependence, the experimental results show about 50% /spl sim/ 80% reduction of effective upper-bound wire width compared with previous work.