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AWEsim: asymptotic waveform evaluation for timing analysis

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L. T. Pillage,

X. Huang,

R. A. RohrerAuthors Info & Claims

DAC '89: Proceedings of the 26th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference

Pages 634 - 637

https://doi.org/10.1145/74382.74493

Published: 01 June 1989 Publication History

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Most timing analyzers rely upon a linear approximate interconnect model, typically an RC tree, to estimate efficiently the propagation delays for digital MOS integrated circuits. RC tree methods are adequate to analyze a large class of MOS circuits, but are not sufficient in general for high speed, dynamic and precharge MOS circuits. In addition bipolar logic and board level digital systems can have interconnect models which may not be compatible with RC tree topologies. In this paper we describe AWEsim, a variable refinement waveform estimator for generalized linear RLC approximate interconnect models.

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DAC '89: Proceedings of the 26th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference

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DOI:10.1145/74382

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