Module 04 Modeling
Module 04 Modeling
EMI
THERMAL NOISE
SUSCEPTIBILITY RADIATION
ATTENUATION
INTERCONNECT DELAY
Power Supply Noise CROSSTALK
❑ Signals suffer from reflection, crosstalk, delay, attenuation and radiation
❑ Chips suffer from power supply noise which affects performance
Ref: R. Achar, EDAPS Tutorial, Dec 2005
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Electrical Design Flow of a Package
Combinational
D Q D Q
Logic Delay
Clock
Clock Distribution
Network
Non-Periodic
Signal
Periodic
Signal
T
IN OUT 1 0 0 1
I
Gnd
Gnd Gnd
Inverter IN=1, OUT=0 IN=0, OUT=1
❑ PMOS + NMOS transistor forms an inverter circuit
❑ Logic 1 at input is converted to Logic 0 at output (NMOS turns ON and PMOS is OFF)
❑ Logic 0 at input is converted to Logic 1 at output (PMOS turns ON and NMOS is OFF)
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Transistors & Circuits
On resistance Wire
of device 1
Cg Input of receiver behaves as a
I capacitor
Current discharges the capacitor
Ron Rec. input = 0
Gnd Gnd
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Capacitive Delay
❑ Let’s assume that the package wire can be represented as a capacitor.
❑ The receiver capacitance (Cg) is being charged (Logic 1).
❑ The PMOS transistor switch is turned ON at time t=0.
Vdd
Wire Ron
0
+ t=0 +
Vdd C Cg Vload
Ron - -
Gnd Gnd
Rec. capacitance
Ron Vdd
t=0 +
Vdd C Cg Vload
0.5Vdd VREF
time
Rec. capacitance Delay
Ron
t=0 +
Vdd C Cg Vload
Rec. capacitance
Boundary Conditions
T50% = 0.69Ron (C + C g )
Example
Microstrip Signal
E +
V
C
Ground -
Total Capacitance=C
Stripline
Ground
E C
Signal
C
Ground
Total Capacitance=2C
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Time Domain Signal & Frequency
V0 tr
Tw
t
0 T
tr = 0.35/B.W
IC1 IC2
IC1 IC2
❑ In general, if the resistance of the interconnect is low, the inductance and capacitance
affects of the interconnect dominate the electrical response.
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Capacitance Vs Transmission Lines
Non-magnetic material
𝜖𝑟 : 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑡𝑦
𝑜𝑓 𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑐
Lower
dielectric
constant is
better
❑ A transmission line enables the propagation of a signal between two points with minimum degradation.
❑ When electricity flows there is physical movement of charge down one conductor and back the other.
❑ Charge has momentum and continues to flow it has started (inductance).
❑ Metal is not a perfect conductor (resistance).
❑ Equal and opposite charge is stored on the conductors (capacitance).
❑ Dielectric is not a perfect conductor (conductance)
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Transmission Line Equivalent Circuit
I(0) l I(l)
Conductor 1
V(0) V(l)
Signal Dielectric
Conductor 2 z (position)
I(0) I(l)
❑ Signal incurs a delay to travel from the start to the end of the TLine
❑ A step pulse gets more rounded when it propagates though a lossy TLine. Main source of
losses are the conductor loss and dielectric loss.
w
t
h
:resistivity (/m)
❑ As frequency increases the current flows only through part of the conductor cross section ()
R1
w l
Current
R2 A
A
:resistivity (-m)
=1/ (S/m)
:permeability (H/m)
R(f)
Linear w/ freq.
Crossover
Voltage
T time
time
leading edge falling edge
❑ Two problems here: 1) unlike clock the data signal is not periodic, and 2) the quality of the
signal waveform is unaccounted.
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Data Signal
Clock Edge
A B C D
V 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0
Vhigh
Vlow
T (secs)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Vlow Vlow
t t
0 1 2 0 1 2
V V
B D ❑ Example here
Vhigh Vhigh
▪ 011, 100, 001, 110 superimposed
Vlow Vlow here
t
0 1 2 0 1 2 t
V
A+B+C+D
Vhigh
Eye Diagram
Vlow
t
0 1 2
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Eye-Diagram – Different Scenarios
Measured eye-diagrams of digital signals transmitted through a 40-inch transmission line at data rates of (a) 200 Mbps, (b)
800 Mbps, and (c) 3200 Mbps
Cm Cg
Cg
Parameters
L: Self inductance of each interconnect (H/cm)
M (Lm): Mutual inductance between interconnects (H/cm)
Cg: Capacitance to ground plane for each interconnect (F/cm)
Cm: Mutual capacitance between interconnects (F/cm)
C = Cg + Cm (F/cm)
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Crosstalk Mechanism
❑ Two Lines
❑ Assume 50W impedance
❑ Line lengths matched
❑ All four ends terminated and matched
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Power Delivery Engineering
Voltage
❑ Input Regulator
❑ 100V-240V AC
❑ 1.6A 50/60Hz Laptop
Desktop
❑ Output
❑ 15V at 4A DC
❑ 5V at 1A DC
Supply Voltage
DC Offset Max. Voltage
AC Noise Error
Vavg
time
Power Transistors
Supply
❑ The voltage and current are passed to the transistors through a complicated network
consisting of interconnects in the PCB, Socket, Package and IC before it gets to the
transistors.
❑ The goal of power delivery is to provide DC voltage to the transistors around a
tolerance level when the transistors switch (draw current).
❑ This is called Power Delivery Engineering!
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Two types of Circuits for Power Delivery
Core Circuits
(Communication within IC)
Vdd I/O Circuits
Active Device (IC) (Communication outside IC)
Signal Wires
Gnd
Current
❑ Core Circuits: Transistors contained with a single IC that communicate with each other.
❑ IO Circuits: Transistors in separate ICs that communicate with each other.
❑ IO Circuits are generally noisy and hence their power delivery has to be kept separate from the core
circuits
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IC1 to IC2 Communication
Supply Vdd
Vdd
ZV ZV
t Vdd
Charging Tline
t
Power Interconnection
Supply Gnd
❑ Power is provided through the interconnections.
❑ These interconnections have impedances associated with them (ZV and ZG).
❑ Causes the stable voltage and gnd supply to fluctuate with time.
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Parasitics in Power Distribution
Vdd
R
IVdd ZV
Vdd Vdd L
Chip_Vdd
C
Gnd Gnd Gnd Gnd Chip_Gnd
L
IGnd ZG
R
CULPRIT
dI
VL = L Voltage drop across inductor
dt
❑ Interconnects can be represented using resistance R and inductance L (parasitics)
❑ DC Offset and AC Noise are generated by the R & L parasitics of the interconnects.
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1. DC Resistance
VDD
Charging DC current reduces the
VDD node of the driver by IRVDD
RVDD I (Charging)
G
Power Supply
❑ When the PMOS transistor closes current is drawn from the power supply to charge the
capacitor.
❑ This causes transient current to loop around between the positive (V) and negative (G)
terminal of the power supply.
❑ The transient current flowing through the inductors causes voltage drop across them and
AC noise (noise changes with time).
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AC Noise Computation – Core Circuits
-
L is the total inductance we calculated
for wirebond, flip chip, and planes
Example:
v(t)
v = 632mV
v = 100mV
tr
❑ Note that the shape of the noise v becomes square as the inductance reduces!
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Voltage waveform across inductor
v=200mV
v=20mV
1 Driver
100 Drivers
Vdd
PRBS
Varying Voltage Droop
on Power Supply due
to Switching
Output driver waveform
time
Uncertainty in Delay due to Switching causing Jitte r
V G
G
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Resistance Calculations
Example
l Example
V G V (Voltage)
V
G (Ground)
V G
Wirebond
Example 2: Wirebond (Importance of mutual inductance)
Inductance Inductance
Reduces Reduces
Mid-frequency Capacitors
Less
Latency
Incurs
Latency
I
Motherboard
t
R=2m,L=1nH,C=22F
R=50m,L=10nH
C=10000F
EMI
THERMAL NOISE
SUSCEPTIBILITY RADIATION
ATTENUATION
INTERCONNECT DELAY
Power Supply Noise CROSSTALK