On Skin Effect in On-Chip Interconnects

• We investigate the influence of skin effect on the propagation delays of on-chip interconnects. For long wires, designed in the LC regime, on the top metal layer in a contemporary process, we find that the skin effect causes an extra delay by 10%. The impact of the skin effect on delay is furthermore rapidly increasing with increased interconnect width.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences (hsv//eng)

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