Thesis (Ph.D)--Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009. / Committee Chair: Meindl, James D.; Committee Member: Davis, Jeffrey A.; Committee Member: Gaylord, Thomas K.; Committee Member: Hess, Dennis W.; Committee Member: Peterson, Andrew F. Part of the SMARTech Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Collection.

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The 2006 International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors projects that for 2020, interconnects will be as narrow as 14 nm and will operate at frequencies as high as 50GHz. For a wire that operates at ultra-high frequencies, such that skin depth and the mean free path of the electrons are in the same order, skin effect and surface scattering should be considered simultaneously. This is known as the anomalous skin effect (ASE). The objective of this work is to identify the challenges and opportunities for using GSI interconnects in the nanometer and GHz regime. The increase in the resistivity of a thin wire caused by the ASE is studied. The delay of a digital transmission line resulting from this effect is modeled. Compact models are presented for the bit-rate limit of transmission lines using a general form of resistance that for the first time simultaneously considers dc resistance, skin effect, and surface scattering. A conventional low-loss approximation that is only valid for fast rising signals is also relaxed. The impact of size effects on the design of multi-level interconnect networks is studied. For high-performance chips at the 18 nm technology node, it is shown that despite a more than four times increase in the resistivity of copper for minimum-size interconnects, the increase in the number of metal levels is negligible (less than 7%), and interconnects that will be affected most are so short that their impact on chip performance is inconsequential. It is shown that for low-cost applications where very few wiring pitches are normally used, the number of metal levels needed to compensate for the impact of size effects on the average rc delay of a copper interconnect is drastically high. An optimization methodology has been presented for power distribution interconnects at the local level. For a given IR drop budget, compact models are presented for the optimal widths of power and ground lines in the first two metal levels for which the total metal area used for power distribution is minimized.

Orientadores: José Pissolato Filho, Eduardo Coelho Marques da Costa / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Elétrica e de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-25T04:23:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Monteiro_JoseHumbertoAraujo_D.pdf: 2599049 bytes, checksum: 247f68cef0523b44c3d1e9c69dc48119 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: Este trabalho apresenta o desenvolvimento de um modelo de linha de transmissão trifásica utilizando uma nova implementação do efeito pelicular, além do estudo da resposta transitória obtida a partir do referido modelo quando surtos de manobra são simulados. A metodologia tradicionalmente utilizada para o cálculo da impedância interna de cabos sólidos cilíndricos faz uso das funções de Bessel, o que a torna complexa. A metodologia descrita por Gatous é tão precisa quanto a metodologia que utiliza as funções de Bessel e possui a vantagem de ser mais simples, visto que a solução final é um somatório cuja precisão depende da frequência estudada. O modelo desenvolvido neste trabalho emprega a metodologia de Gatous em uma linha de transmissão trifásica, cujos modos de propagação independentes são obtidos a partir da aplicação da matriz de Clarke. Para validar a metodologia de Gatous, foram calculadas a resistência e a indutância interna de cabos com raios variados em uma ampla faixa de frequências. Os resultados foram comparados aos obtidos a partir da metodologia tradicional. A metodologia de Gatous reproduziu com precisão a variação da impedância interna com a frequência. Para avaliar o funcionamento do modelo de linha de transmissão trifásico no domínio do tempo, um caso base foi estabelecido. Uma linha de transmissão trifásica de 69kV, circuito simples, foi submetida a chaveamentos de carga em duas situações distintas: chaveamento sendo executado no ponto de cruzamento com o zero da tensão e; chaveamento no ponto de 90° da tensão. Os transitórios de tensão e corrente foram obtidos a partir do modelo elaborado e comparados com os resultantes do software de análise de transitórios ATP. Os resultados alcançados reproduzem com fidelidade o comportamento transiente descrito pelo software supracitado / Abstract: This paper presents the development of a three-phase transmission line model using a new skin effect calculation and its transient response when some switching surges are applied to it. The methodology commonly used to calculate the internal impedance of solid conductors with cylindrical cross sectional area employs Bessel functions, which makes it a hard task to accomplish. Gatous, in his doctoral work, presented a new method to calculate skin effect impedance as accurate as Bessel¿s methodology with advantage of simplicity, whereas that final solution is an algebraic sum whose precision depends of frequency studied. The transmission line model developed in this work utilizes Gatous¿s method for skin effect impedance calculation in a three-phase transmission line, whose independent modes of propagation are obtained from the application of Clarke's matrix. In order to validate the mentioned methodology, internal resistances and inductances of cables with different size radii were calculated for a wide range of frequencies. The results were compared with those obtained through the traditional method, reproducing correctly the variation of the internal impedance with frequency. A base case was established to evaluate the operation of the three-phase transmission line in the time-domain model. A 69kV three-phase transmission line, single circuit, was subjected to switching load in two distinct situations: switching at zero crossing voltage and switching at voltage peak. Voltage and current transients were obtained from the developed model and compared with those derived from transient analysis software ATP. The results faithfully reproduced the transient behavior described by the above software / Doutorado / Energia Eletrica / Doutor em Engenharia Elétrica