On-Chip Interconnect Inductance - Friend or Foe (Invited)

Kant: Friend or Foe of the Believer? Plantinga and Other American Christian Responses to Kant's Epistemology

Design and Measurement of an Inductance-Oscillator for Analyzing Inductance Impact on On-Chip Interconnect Delay

A newly devised inductance-oscillator (iOSC) has been developed which evaluates inductance impact on on-chip interconnect delay. iOSC is a ring oscillator which is comprised of a set of wires each with different loop inductance and accurate on-chip counter. The equivalent distance to the nearest ground grid, which serves as the current return path, is varied to control wire inductance. A test c...

Airway Hyperresponsiveness: From Molecules to Bedside Invited Review: Airway wall remodeling: friend or foe?

McParland, Brent E., Peter T. Macklem, and Peter D. Paré. Invited Review: Airway wall remodeling: friend or foe? J Appl Physiol 95: 426–434, 2003;10.1152/japplphysiol.00159.2003.—Airway wall remodeling is well documented for asthmatic airways and is believed to result from chronic and/or short-term exposure to inflammatory stimuli. Airway wall remodeling can contribute to airway narrowing as we...

On-chip inductance cons and pros

This paper provides a high level survey of the increasing effects of on-chip inductance. These effects are classified into desirable and nondesirable effects. Among the undesirable effects of on-chip inductance are higher interconnect coupling noise and substrate coupling, challenges for accurate extraction, the required modifications of the infrastructure of CAD tools, and the inevitably slowe...

An Interconnect Scaling Scheme with Constant On-Chip Inductive Effects

This paper introduces a new global-tier interconnect scaling scheme which ensures that inductance effects do not start dominating the overall interconnect performance. It is shown that for unscaled global lines, inductance effects increase as technology scales while for the scaling scheme proposed by ITRS [1], interconnects become extremely resistive and, while inductance effects diminish with ...