Chemical-mechanical planarization (CMP) is an enabling technique to achieve uniformity of dielectric and conductor height in BEOL manufacturing processes. Dummy fill insertion improves the uniformity of metal feature density and enhances the planarization that can be obtained by CMP, but can also change the coupling and total capacitance of interconnects [1], [2]. Additionally, dishing and eros...

COMMERCIAL DESIGNS currently integrate tens to hundreds of embedded functional and storage blocks in a monolithic SoC, and the number is expected to increase significantly in the near future. Specifically, molecular-scale computing will allow additional orders-of-magnitude improvements in device density. The possibility of such high levels of integration in a single chip necessitates the design...

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Optical interconnect is seen as a potential solution to meet the performance requirements of current and future generation of data processors. Optical interconnects have negligible frequency dependent loss, low cross talk and high band width. Optical interconnects are not much used commercially since optical interconnects technology is incompatible with manufacturing processes and assembly meth...

This paper focuses on modeling and characterizing the data dependent jitter (DDJ) in high-speed interconnect. The analysis process is performed based on the Fourier series using the interconnect RLC model. By calculating the pattern dependent delay deviations, the DDJ is characterized. To validate the model accuracy, the analysis results have been compared against Cadence simulations. The inter...

Connecting superconducting qubits to optical fiber necessitates the conversion of microwave photons photons. Modern experimental demonstrations exhibit strong coupling between a resonator and an cavity mediated through phononic modes in mechanical oscillator. This paradigmatic transduction experiment is bounded by theoretical efficiency with constant driving amplitudes on electromagnetic resona...

Elmore delay has been widely used to estimate the interconnect delays in the performance-driven synthesis and layout of VLSI routing topologies. For typical RLC interconnections, Elmore delay can deviate signiicantly (by up to 33% or more) from SPICE-computed delay, since it is independent of inductance. We develop an analytical delay model to incorporate inductance eeects into the delay estima...