Importance of including power supply noisein digital circuit simulations

25 September 1997

journal article
Published by Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in Electronics Letters

Vol. 33 (20) , 1692-1693
https://doi.org/10.1049/el:19971123

Abstract

Rapid fluctuations of power supply values, or switching noise, can have a significant effect on VLSI circuit speed. This is shown by comparing circuit simulations with measurements of the critical path delay of a self-resetting SRAM. It is shown that including the measured high frequency noise in the circuit simulation leads to very accurate prediction of circuit speed.

Keywords

HIGH FREQUENCY NOISE
VLSI CIRCUIT SPEED
DIGITAL CIRCUIT SIMULATIONS
CRITICAL PATH DELAY
CIRCUIT SPEED PREDICTION
SWITCHING NOISE
SELF-RESETTING SRAM
POWER SUPPLY NOISE

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