[SI-LIST] Re: inductance extraction

  • From: JP <edpc108@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 19:18:10 +0100 (BST)

Hi Swaroop,

  This is the exact issue I faced some time back!


  You need to include the Ground plane in your circuit
  return path explicitly. 

  Just adding a ground plane near the signal will work
fine for a 2D extractor but not with 3D extractors. 

Thanks and regards,
Jayaprakash. 
 


--- Swaroop <ghoshso@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 
> Hi all,
> 
> I am a new user of fasthenry tool. Does anyone knows
> how to incorporate
> a gound line in between several parallel lines (in
> input file)?
> 
> Actually I know how to include a ground plane and I
> was trying to
> convert the ground plane into "line geometry" but I
> did not observed any
> 
> change in the self inductance values of
> interconnects even after
> incorporating ground in between. I read in one of
> the IEEE papers that
> incorporating ground lines in the model
> significantly improves the
> inductance values (ie it gives more realistic values
> of inductance). But
> 
> in my case, there is not much change in self
> inductance values. I doubt
> whether I modeled my ground interconnect correctly .
> 
> Any suggestions are welcome.
> 
> Best regards,
> Swaroop Ghosh
> Univ of cincinnati
> 
> 
> 
> 
>
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