Analysis of pulse propagation on high-speed VLSI chips

A method for the analysis of lossy distributed interconnections on high-speed LSI/VLSI chips is presented. The method is based on a piecewise decomposition technique in which nonlinear branches are replaced by piecewise-linear time-dependent sources. Parameters of the piecewise-linear functions are computed iteratively so that the network's topological and constitutive relations are satisfied. Examples to illustrate the analysis algorithms are presented.