An Adaptive Electromigration Assessment Algorithm for Full-chip Power/Ground Networks

Abstract

In this paper, an adaptive algorithm is proposed to perform electromigration (EM) assessment for full-chip power/ground networks. Based on the eigenfunction solutions, the proposed method improves the efficiency by properly selecting the eigenfunction terms and utilizing the closed-form eigenfunctions for commonly seen interconnect wires such as T-shaped or cross-shaped wires. It is demonstrated that the proposed method can trad-off well among the accuracy, efficiency and applicability of the eigenfunction based methods. The experimental results show that the proposed method is about three times faster than the finite difference method and other eigenfunction based methods.