Efficient simulation of interconnects in high-speed circuits

The paper presents an efficient approach for the simulation of interconnects in highspeed circuits based on measured data or simulated EM data. The approach involves forming an initial transmission-line model based on a resonant approach introduced by the authors and subsequently tuning this model to match the measured data. Following tuning, the model is converted to a state-space formulation. This then enables a standard model reduction routine such as the Lanczos process to be applied so as to gain further improvements from a computational efficiency viewpoint. The overall result is a highly efficient interconnect model based on measured data.