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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics

State-Dependence of On-Chip Power Distribution Network Capacitance

Koh YAMANAGA, Shiho HAGIWARA, Ryo TAKAHASHI, Kazuya MASU, Takashi SATO

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In this paper, the measurement of capacitance variation, of an on-chip power distribution network (PDN) due to the change of internal states of a CMOS logic circuit, is studied. A state-dependent PDN-capacitance model that explains measurement results will be also proposed. The model is composed of capacitance elements related to MOS transistors, signal and power supply wires, and substrate. Reflecting the changes of electrode potentials, the capacitance elements become state-dependent. The capacitive elements are then all connected in parallel between power supply and ground to form the proposed model. By using the proposed model, state-dependence of PDN-capacitances for different logic circuits are studied in detail. The change of PDN-capacitance exceeds 12% of its total capacitance in some cases, which corresponds to 6% shift of anti-resonance frequency. Consideration of the state-dependence is important for modeling the PDN-capacitance.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics Vol.E97-C No.1 pp.77-84
Publication Date
2014/01/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
1745-1353
DOI
10.1587/transele.E97.C.77
Type of Manuscript
PAPER
Category
Integrated Electronics

Authors

Koh YAMANAGA
  Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
Shiho HAGIWARA
  Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.
Ryo TAKAHASHI
  The University of Tokyo
Kazuya MASU
  Tokyo Institute of Technology
Takashi SATO
  Kyoto University

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