| High-speed interconnects are increasingly becoming susceptible to electromagnetic interference. Electromagnetic interference can seriously deteriorate the signal integrity of electrical systems. There is a growing requirement to analyze interconnects in the presence of external electromagnetic fields, in industrial grade circuit simulators, such as SPICE.; This thesis presents efficient algorithms to model and simulate high-speed interconnects exposed to incident fields. The algorithms are based on the recently developed delay extraction based compact and passive transmission line macromodels. The proposed incident field coupling models overcome the mixed frequency/time problem encountered during nonlinear transient simulation. The models are suitable for inclusion in conventional circuit simulators, such as SPICE and provide significant speed-up in terms of CPU time as compared to the existing techniques. Numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the validity and efficiency of the proposed algorithms. |
