The Analog Behavior of Digital Integrated Circuits
- 1 January 1981
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Abstract
The analog behavior of digital VLSI circuits is investigated. A theory based on nonlinear Thevenin equivalent circuits and RC ladder networks is developed. We obtain closed from expressions for the upper and lower bounds on propagation delay through a string of inverters. We generalize this to multiple-input, multiple-output gates and show that the problem of estimating signal propagation delays in VLSI circuits may be reduced to the problem of summing the step responses of a set of linear RC networks. As well as having implications for a computationally efficient timing simulator, the theory begins the formalization of the fundamental properties of digital integrated circuits.Keywords
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