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Building an IC chip (about the size of a fingernail) is like building a multi-storey building. The first floor contains about a billion semiconductor transistors (referred to as "devices"), and the upper floors contain the metal wires that interconnect the terminals of the "devices". These metal wires are extremely narrow, and there is a maze of these criss-crossing multi-layered metal wires in an IC chip, interconnecting the transistor "device" terminals on the first floor (they drop down from an upper layer to a lower layer using "vias").
There is a lot of parasitic (ie. unwanted) capacitance (C), resistance (R) and inductance (L) in/among these cross-crossing interconnect wires and vias. These parasitic C, R and L degrade the characteristics of the IC chip.
"Interconnect modeling" deals with the modeling of these C, R and L so that they can be accurately considered in predicting/simulating the overall circuit behavior. "Device modeling" on the other hand deals with modeling the behavior of the transistor devices on the first floor.
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You will get it very easily for sure.
The points where circuits interconnect with other circuits is known as what?
The point where wires interconnect with other wires is known as a "junction". In your panel the circuit breakers are connected to the buss, each circuit breaker feeds a different circuit. Different circuits are not connected together.
What is design capture tools in vlsi?
1. HDL Design 2.Schematic Design 3.Floor planning
Does solar cell technology use VLSI technology?
VLSI (very large scale integration) technology places tens of thousands of transistors (and their interconnections) on a very pure single-crystal chip of silicon.A single solar cell is just ONE very largearea junction diode, operating in self produced reverse bias mode.A common kind of solar cell starts with the same very pure single-crystal silicon, but the later processes are different from VLSI manufacturing processes.Solar cells don't include any transistors,So you could say that single-crystal solar cell uses one small part of VLSI technology, plus a bunch of its own unique processes.Other kinds of solar cell use cast polycrystalline silicon or amorphous silicon or some other starting material.As of 2007, the highest-efficiency solar cells use 3-junction gallium arsenide instead of silicon.Their manufacturing processes are even less like VLSI manufacturing.
What does interconnect mean?
Interconnect is a word that means to be connected: The wires were interconnect.
When was VLSI Technology created?
VLSI Technology was created in 1979.
When did VLSI Technology end?
VLSI Technology ended in 1999.
How do you calculate fringing capacitance?
The best way is to use an EM solver, such as FastCap from MIT. Numerous published papers also describe the best-fit formulae to calculate fringing capacitances by hand. Try reading "Modeling of interconnect capacitance, delay , and crosstalk in VLSI," by Wong et al., IEEE Trans. Semi. Manufacturing, v13, n1, February 2000, pp108, and the references therein.
What has the author Debashis Bhattacharya written?
Debashis Bhattacharya has written: 'Hierarchical modeling for VLSI circuit testing' -- subject(s): Computer simulation, Integrated circuits, Testing, Very large scale integration
Why i need peripheral component interconnect expansion slots in my computer?
why we need peripheral component interconnect why we need peripheral component interconnect
What is the point where circuits interconnect?
The point where circuits interconnect is called the "interface".
What are applications of vlsi?
sum of the applications of VLSI are chip like microcontroller,microprocessor,mobile etc
What does Vlsi era mean?
VLSI Era:- Very Large Scale Integration Era
What is vlsi based on hardware or software?
to say frankly it is still a confusion thing for me to decide vlsi is either hardware or software,but according to my opinion vlsi is both hardware and software.
What are the difference between VLSI and embedded design?
how to make a chip ---- vlsi how to use a chip ---- embedded systems
Is vlsi design a theory or derivation subject?
VLSI is combined of both theory and derivation with more diagrams
