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An Efficient Three-Dimensional Capacitance Extraction Based on finite Element Method Adopting Variable Division

가변 분할을 적용한 유한 요소법에 의한 3차원 모형의 효율적인 커패시턴스 추출 방법

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Abstract

This paper proposes an efficient method for computing the 3-dimensional capacitance of complex structures. The proposed method Is based on Finite Element Method(FEM) and expands the conventional FEM by adopting variable division. This method improves the extraction efficiency 50 times when compared to the conventional FEM with equal division. The proposed method can be used efficiently to extract electrical parameters of on/off-chip interconnects in VLSI systems.

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