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PRELIMINARY PROGRAM FOR 2007

(program subject to change)

Sunday, October 28, 2007

 

Piedmont Registration

12:00 -5:00 pm                  Registration for FDIP and Meeting

 

Peachtree                    

1:15 – 5:55 pm                  FDIP Workshop

 

 

 MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2007 

 

Piedmont Registration

7:00 - 8:00 am                     Registration

 

Georgia East Ballroom

7:00 - 8:00 am                    Continental Breakfast

 

Atlanta Ballroom

8:00 - 8:10 am                      Welcome/Introductory Remarks

                                              Paul Franzon, North Carolina State University

 

8:10-8:40                                Session I – Plenary/Keynote

                                               SESSION CHAIR:

                                               KEYNOTEEmerging Paradigms in IC and

                                                                              Systems Packaging

                                                                              Rao Tummala, Georgia Tech

 

8:40 – 10:00 am                      Session II – Power Distribution Measurement

                                                SESSION CHAIRS:

                                                Thomas Winkel, IBM

                                                Tawfik Rahal-Arabi, Intel

 

CPU Generated Binary and Ternary Loads for Power Delivery Assessment (Student Paper)

     William Lambert and Rajapandian Ayyanar................................Arizona State U

 

Measurement of Supply Pin Current Distributions in Integrated Circuit Packages

     James Weaver and Mark Horowitz........................................... Stanford

 

A Method for Measuring Vref Noise Tolerance of DDR2-SDRAM on Test Board Simulating Actual Memory Module

     Yutaka Uematsu, Hideki Osaka, Yoji Nishio and Susumu Hatano............... Hitachi

 

Test Chip Electrical Measurements with Model Correlation

     Michael A. Lamson..................................................... Texas Instruments

 

Piedmont Registration

10:00 – 10:15 am                          Refreshment Break

 

Atlanta Ballroom                        

10:15 – 11:00 am                         Session III – Fundamentals and Advances in

                                                             High-Speed Measurements (Embedded

                                                              Tutorial)

                                                  Steve Corey, Tektronix

                                                 

Atlanta Ballroom

11:00 am – 12:40 noon                 Session IV – High Speed Channels

                                                SESSION CHAIRS:

                                        Wendem Beyene, Rambus

                                                Bob Evans, Cisco

 

Swarm Intelligence for Electrical Design Space Exploration (Student Paper)

      Navraj Singh, Bhyrav Mutnury, Caleb Wesley, Nam Pham, Erdem Matoglu,

     Moises Cases and Daniel N de Araujo ............................................. IBM

 

6b9b Encoding Scheme for Improving Single-Ended Interface Bandwidth and Reducing Power Consumption without Pin Count Increase

     Brian Wang, Min Wang, Woong Hwan Ryu........................................... Intel

 

Modeling and Analysis Techniques of Jitter Enhancement across High-Speed Interconnect Systems

     Wendemagegnehu (Wendem) Beyene......................................... Rambus

 

Prediction of System Performance Based on Component Jitter and Noise Budgets

     Dan Oh, Frank Lambrecht, JiHong Ren, Sam Chang, Ben Chia, Chris Madden and

     Chuck Yuan................................................................................. Rambus

 

Electrical Analysis of Multi-board PCB Systems with Differential Signaling Considering Non-ideal Common Ground Connection

     Mosin Mondal, Bhyrav Mutnury, Pravin Patel, Samuel Connor, Bruce Archambeault

     and Moises Cases............................................................................ IBM

 

Georgia East Ballroom

12:40 – 1:40 pm                     Lunch (for Meeting attendees)

 

Atlanta Ballroom

1:40 – 3:20 pm                        Session V – Linear Macromodeling

                                             SESSION CHAIRS:

                                             Moises Cases, IBM

                                             Ram Achar, Carleton University

 

A Refinement Procedure for S-Parameter DC Extrapolation based on Sampling Theorem and Causality

     Hao Shi............................................................................... Rambus

 

Fast Macromodeling Technique of Sampled Time/Frequency Data using z-domain Vector-Fitting Method

     Yidnek S. Mekonnen and José E. Schutt-Aine..................................................................................... U of Illinois

 

Parametric Macromodeling of Multiport Networks from Tabulated Data

     P. Triverio...................................................... Politecnico di Torino

     M. S. Nakhla.............................................................. Carleton U

     S. Grivet-Talocia............................................... Politecnico di Torino

 

Weighting Strategies for Passivity Enforcement Schemes

     A. Ubolli and S. Grivet-Talocia............................. Politecnico di Torino

 

SPICE-Compatible Representations of S-Parameter Matrices of Passive Networks with Transport Delay (Student Paper)

     Se-Jung Moon and A.C. Cangellaris...................................... U of Illinois

 

Piedmont Registration

3:20 -3:35 pm                         Refreshment Break

 

Atlanta Ballroom

3:35 – 4:35 pm                         Session VI – EM Modeling

                                              SESSION CHAIRS:

                                              Kladhar Radhakrishnan, Intel

                                              Jian-Ming Jin, University of Illinois

 

Extended Segmentation Procedure for Electromagnetic Modeling of the Power Distribution Network (Student Paper)

     Varvara Kollia and Andreas C. Cangellaris........................U of Illinois

 

Efficient Full-Wave Analysis of Multilayer Interconnection Structures Using a Novel Domain Decomposition–Model Order Reduction Method (Student Paper)

     Shih-Hao Lee and Jian-Ming Jin........................................U of Illinois

 

Stochastic High Order Basis Functions for Volume Integral Equation with Surface Roughness (Student Paper)

     Tarek Moselhy and Luca Daniel...................................................... MIT

 

Georgia East Ballroom

4:35 – 6:30 pm                       Session VII - Open Forum (Posters)

                                               Designers Forum

                                                

SW-HW-EM Modeling Flow for Multi-Port EMI Optimization of Component Placement in Mobile Devices

     Timo Tarvainen, Tuukka Ruokamo and Lauri Hynynen.......................... Esju Oy

     Ilkka Kelander and Pia Kotiranta............................................ Nokia Research

 

Maintaining System Signal and Power Integrity Characteristics as Part of a Module Cost-Reduction Exercise

     P.E. Dahlen, T. Timpane, D.J. Becker, T.W. Liang, W.D. Martin, P. Rudrud and

     G.K. Bartley............................. IBM

 

Design, Analysis, and Optimization of DDR2 Memory Power Delivery Network

     Junho Lee, Hyunseok Kim, Kimyung Kyung, Minyoung You, Hyungdong Lee,

     Kunwoo Park and Byongtae Chung...................... Hynix Semiconductor

 

A Hybrid Electromagnetic Bandgap (EBG) Power Plane with Discrete Inductors for Broadband Noise Suppression

     William E.McKinzie.......................................................   WEMTEC

 

Plate Orientation Effect on the Inductance of Multi-Layer Ceramic Capacitors (Student Paper)

     Hocheol Kwak and Haixin Ke............................................ Clemson U

     Byoung Hwa Lee..................................... Samsung Electro-Mechanics

     Todd Hubing................................................................. Clemson U

 

Distributed On-chip Power Supply Noise Characterization of the Cell Broadband Engine

     Yaping Zhou, Paul M. Harvey, Brian Flachs, John Liberty, Gilles Gervais,

     Rohan Mandrekar, Howard H. Chen and Tetsuji Tamura.......................... IBM

 

Wafer Level Fabrication and Packaging of Miniature Combline Filters

     Sarabjit Mehta and Peter Petre................................................. HRL Labs

 

Parasitic-Aware RF Design via Parameterization of Embedded Passives on Multilayer Organic Substrates

     Sung-Hwan Min, Chung-Seok Seo, Semyon Lapushin, Larry Carastro,

     Sidharth Dalmia and George White................................ Jacket Micro Devices

     Madhavan Swaminathan............................... Georgia Institute of Technology

 

Coupled Analysis of Quasi-static and Full-Wave Solution towards IC, Package and Board Co-design

     Jifeng Mao, Greg Fitzgerald and An-Yu Kuo........................................ Optimal

     Sidina Wane............................................................... NXP Semiconductors

 

Automatic Layout Generation of RF Embedded Passive Designs

     Mohit Pathak, Satya Vadlamudi, Josh Beaver and Sung Kyu Lim...... Georgia Tech

 

Fast Algorithm for Determining Eye-Diagram Characteristics of Lossy Transmission Lines

     Jeng-Hau Lin, Wei-Da Guo, Guang-Hwa Shiue, Chien-Min Lin, Tian-Wei Huang and  

     Ruey-Beei Wu....................................................... National Taiwan U

 

SI-PD Co-simulation and Co-design Methodology for High Speed Channel

     Myoung Joon Choi, Vishran S. Pandit and Woong Hwan Ryu..............Intel

 

Fast ISI Characterization of Passive Channels Using Extreme Value Distribution

     Yu (Sam) Chang and Dan Oh...................................................Rambus

 

Long Range Connector via Coupling Effects for High Speed Signals

     Thomas-Michael Winkel and Roland Frech.......................................... IBM

      Thomas Gneiting...................................................................... AdMOS

 

Jitter Amplification Considerations for PCB Clock Channel Design

     Chris Madden, Sam Chang, Dan Oh and Chuck Yuan......................... Rambus

 

System Margin Improvement with Multiphase Equalization for High-Speed Links

     Jihong Ren and Dan Oh.............................................................. Rambus

 

Reflectionless Design for Differential-Via Transitions Using Neural Network-Based Approach

     Yung-Shou Jeng, Wei-Da Guo and Guang-Hwa Shiue............ National Taiwan U

     Chien-Min Lin..................................... Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing

     Ruey-Beei Wu............................................................... National Taiwan U

 

On-Package Continuous-Time Linear Equalizer using Embedded Passive Components

     Jaemin Shin and Kemal Aygün.................................................... Intel

 

Crosstalk Measurement, Extraction and Validation in 10Gbps Serial Systems

     P. Patel, R. Ahmed, B. Herrman, M.Cases and P.Seidel............................ IBM

     G. Oganessyan and R. Fox.............................................................. Molex

 

Predicting and Optimizing Jitter and EyeOpening Based on Bitonic Step Response

     Haikun Zhu, Chung-Kuan Cheng, Alina Deutsch and George Katopis............ IBM

 

Predictions of the Worst-Case Crosstalk Including ISI Effect and the Worst-Case Eye Opening Including Crosstalk Effect for Electronic Packaging System Design

     Zhaoqing Chen.............................................................................. IBM

 

Package Performance Improvement with Counter-Discontinuity and its Effective Bandwidth

     Nanju Na and Mark Bailey............................................................... IBM

      Asad Kalantarian.......................................................................... MIT

 

Design Margin Methodology for DDR Interface

     Soujanna Sarkar, Amit Brahme, Subash Chandar G............ Texas Instruments

 

System Design for 3D Multi-FPGA Packaging

     Thorlindur Thorolfsson and Paul D. Franzon ................. North Carolina State U

 

Physically-Consistent Broadband Material Model Generation for Microstrip Transmission Lines

     Zhen Zhou and Kathleen L. Melde............................................ U of Arizona

 

Computation of Intra-pair Skew for Imbalance Differential Line using Modified Mixed-mode S-parameter

     Seungyong Baek, Eric Lee and Baegin Sung............................... Silicon Image

 

Application of Integral Analysis Technique to Determine Signal- and Power Integrity of Advanced Packages

     Nebojša Nenadović....................................................... NXP Semiconductor

     Ekkehard Miersch  ............................................................. EFM Consulting

      Martin Versleijen and Sidina Wane.................................. NXP Semiconductor  

 

 

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2007

 

Piedmont Registration

7:00 - 8:00 am                        Continental Breakfast

 

Atlanta Ballroom

8:00 – 8:45am                         Session VIII – 3D Interconnect and Packaging

                                              (Embedded Tutorial)

                                              K. C. Saraswat, Stanford U

                                              SESSION CHAIR:

                                              Ram Achar

 

Atlanta Ballroom

8:45-10:25 am                              Session IX – Power Distribution

                                                  SESSION CHAIRS:

                                                  Christopher Pan, Intel

                                          Brian Young, Texas Instruments

 

Investigating the Impact of Supply Noise on the Jitter in Gigabit I/O Interfaces

     Ralf Schmitt, Hai Lan, Chris Madden and Chuck Yuan............................ Rambus

 

A Novel EBG Power Plane with Stopband Enhancement using Artificial Substrate (Student Paper)

     Ting-Kuang Wang, Tzu-Wei Han and Tzong-Lin Wu................ National Taiwan U

 

Performance Impact of Simultaneous Switching Output Noise on Graphic Memory Systems

     Joong-Ho Kim, Woopoung Kim, Dan Oh, Ralf Schmitt, June Feng, Chuck Yuan,

     Lei Luo and John Wilson................................................................ Rambus

 

Selection Criteria and Tradeoffs for 0402 and 0204 Ceramic Chip Capacitors for On-Package Decoupling Applications

     Brian Young............................................................ Texas Instruments

 

Power Delivery for 3D Chip Stacks: Physical Modeling and Design Implication (Student Paper)

     Gang Huang, Muhannad Bakir and Azad Naeemi..... Georgia Institute of Technology

      Howard Chen........................................................................ IBM

      James D. Meindl............................................. Georgia Institute of Technology

 

Piedmont

10:25 - 10:40 am                   Refreshment Break

 

Atlanta Ballroom

10:40 – 12:20                         Session X – Advanced Transmission Lines

                                            SESSION CHAIRS:                   

                                            Ramesh Abhari, McGill University

                                            Kathleen Melde, University of Arizona

 

Characterization of Metamaterial Interconnects (Student Paper)

     Asanee Suntives, Arash Khajooeizadeh and Ramesh Abhari.................. McGill U

 

Dual-Mode High-Speed Data Transmission Using Substrate Integrated Waveguide Interconnects (Student paper)

     Asanee Suntives and Ramesh Abhari............................................... McGill U

 

High-frequency Characterization and Simulation of Conductor Loss in Printable Electronics Technology

     Vesa Pynttäri, Riku Mäkinen, Juha Lilja, Ville Pekkanen, Matti Mäntysalo, Pauliina Mansikkamäki and  

      Markku Kivikoski................................................................ Tampere U

 

Modeling of the Resistive and Inductive Behaviour of Layered and Coated Conductors (Student Paper)

     Thomas Demeester and Daniel De Zutter...................................... Ghent U

 

Vertical Differential Pair Routing in High Performance Ceramic Multi-chip Module Packages

     Franklin Baez, Peter Van Dyke and Christopher Spring......................... IBM

 

Georgia East Ballroom

12:20 am - 1:45 pm                    Lunch (for Meeting attendees)

 

Piedmont

12:20 - 1:45                                Technical Program Committee Meeting

                                                     (Committee Members only)

Atlanta Ballroom

1:45 – 2:30 pm                             Session XI – Fundamentals of Parallel

                                                              Computing for Scalable Solutions

                                                  Vikram Jandyala, Washington State U

                                                  (Embedded Tutorial)

                                                   

Piedmont Registration

2:30 -3:00 pm                              Refreshment Break

 

Atlanta Ballroom                         Session XII– Parallel Algorithms

3:00 – 4:40 pm                           SESSION CHAIRS:

                                               Albert Tuehli, IBM

                                               Michel Nakhla, Carleton University

 

LIM-Based Algorithms for the Transient Simulation of Large Networks

     José Schutt-Ainé............................................................ U of Illinois

 

Parallel Simulation of High-Speed Interconnects using Delay Extraction and Transverse Partitioning (Student Paper)

     Natalie Nakhla, Michel Nakhla and Ram Achar......................... Carleton U

    Albert Ruehli.............................................................................. IBM

 

Parallel Waveform Relaxation and Matrix Solution for Large PEEC Model Problems

     Giulio Antonini.................................................................. U of L'Aquila

     Jonas Ekman.......................................................................... Lulea U

     Albert E. Ruehli............................................................................ IBM

 

Efficient Signal and Power Integrity Analysis Using Parallel Techniques

     Tao Su, Xiaofeng Wang, Zhengang Bai and Venkata Vennam............. Sigrity

 

Parallel Algorithms for Fast Integral Equation Based Solvers

     Xiren Wang and Vikram Jandhyala..................................... U of Washington

 

Atlanta Ballroom

4:40 – 6:40 pm                        Session XIII- Open Forum (Posters)

                                               

 

A New Macromodeling Approach for Digital Output Drivers and Application in Simultaneous Switching Noise Analysis

     Benjamin R. Buhrow, Erik S. Daniel and Barry K. Gilbert.................. Mayo Clinic

 

Chip Power Model - A New Methodology for System Power Integrity Analysis and Design

     Emre Kulali, Evgeny Wasserman and Ji Zheng............. Apache Design Solutions

 

An Efficient Method for Power integrity and EMI Analysis of Irregular-Shaped Power/Ground Planes in Packages

     En-Xiao Liu, Xingchang Wei, Zaw Zaw Oo and Er-Ping Li...........

     ....................................................Institute of High Performance Computing

 

Determination of the broadband transmission line parameters of lossy lines using the Dirichlet to Neumann operator

     Thomas Demeester and Daniel De Zutter...................................... Ghent U

 

Analysis of Power Distribution Networks using Multiconductor Transmission Line Theory (Student Paper)

     K. Payandehjoo, D. Kostka and R. Abhar....................................... McGill U

 

Modeling of Advanced Multilayered Packages with Multiple Vias and Finite Ground Planes

     En-Xiao Liu, Xingchang Wei, Zaw Zaw Oo and Er-Ping Li...........

     .......................................................Institute of High Performance Computing

     Le-Wei Li................................................................. National U of Singapore

 

A Domain Decomposition Method for the Finite Element Simulation of Circuit Board Interconnects

     Kaiyu Mao................................................................ U of Illinois

     Jilin Tan............................................................ Cadence Design

     Jian-Ming Jin............................................................. U of Illinois

 

Multi-Rate FDTD Method for Fast Electromagnetic Simulation

     Yuya Nakazono and Hideki Asai...................................... Shizuoka U

 

A Recovery Algorithm of Linear Complexity in the Time-Domain Layered Finite Element Reduction Recovery (LAFE-RR) Method for Large Scale Electromagnetic Analysis of High-Speed ICs (Student Paper)

     Houle Gan and Dan Jiao...................................................... Purdue U

 

Choosing the Right Number of Basis Functions in Multiscale Transient Simulation Using Laguerre Polynomials (Student Paper)

     K. Srinivasan, P. Yadav, E. Engin and M. Swaminathan...............................

     .......................................................... Georgia Institute of Technology

 

An Efficient 3D-to-2D Reduction Technique for Frequency-Domain Layered Finite Element Analysis of Large-Scale High-Frequency Integrated Circuits

     Feng Sheng, Sourav Chakravarty and Dan Jiao........................ Purdue

 

TwinAx Differential Cable Helical Shield Wrap Modeling

     D.N. de Araujo and M. Commens............................................. Ansoft

      B. Mutnury and J. Diepenbrock............................................................................. IBM

 

Effcient, Automatic Model Order Determination and Model Generation for Tabulated S-parameters

     Mengmeng Ding and David Smart....................................... Analog Devices

 

A Rapid Link Analysis Technique Using Four-Port Scattering Parameters

     Bart McCoy............................................................................ Mayo Clinic

     Jonathan Coker................................................................. U of Minnesota

     Robert Techentin, Barry Gilbert and Erik Daniel.............................. Mayo Clinic

 

In-Situ Characterization of High-Speed I/O Chip-Package Systems (Student Paper)

     Jongshick Ahn, Sudeep Puligundla, Rizwan Bashirullah, Robert M. Fox and

    William R. Eisenstadt .................................................. U of Florida

 

Broadband On-Wafer Calibrations Comparison for Accuracy and Repeatability on Co-Planar Waveguide Structures (Student Paper)

     Qian Li and Kathleen L. Melde........................................... U of Arizona

 

Study of High Speed Current Excitation Reverse Engineering Methodology Using Measured Voltage and PDN Impedance Profile from a Running Microprocessor

     Huang Jimmy Huat Since, Bin Yusof Ahmad Jalaluddin and

     Ong Alvin Yih Yeong............................................................ Intel

 

 

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2007

 

Piedmont Registration

7:00 - 8:00 am                       Continental Breakfast

 

Atlanta Ballroom

8:00 – 9:20 am                       Session XIV – Parallel Algorithims II

                                            SESSION CHAIRS:

                                            Michel Nakhla, Carleton University

                                            Albert Ruehli, IBM
 

A Parallel Hierarchical Solver for the Integral Equation Analysis of Low Frequency Devices

     F. P. Andriulli and H. Bagci............................................. U of Michigan

     F. Vipiana and G. Vecchi,...................................... Politecnico di Torino  

     E. Michielssen.............................................................. U of Michigan

 

Fast EMC Analysis of High-Speed Interconnects Via Waveform Relaxation and Transverse Partitioning (Student Paper)

     Arvind Sridhar, Natalie Nakhla, Ram Achar and Michel Nakhla...... Carleton U

 

Parallel Discrete Complex Image Method for Barnes-Hut Accelerated Capacitance Extraction in Multilayered Substrates (Student Paper)    

      Khalid Butt and Ian Jeffrey............................................. U of Manitoba

     Feng Ling.......................................................................... Physware

     Vladimir Okhmatovski..................................................... U of Manitoba

 

Parallelization of the Reduced-Coupling Technique for a Method-of-Moments-Based Field Solver Used for Product-Level Wide Data-Bus Analysis

     A. J. Hesford1, J. D. Morsey, W. C. Chew, A. Deutsch and H. H. Smith....IBM

 

Atlanta Ballroom

9:20 – 10:20 am                       Session XV – Non-Linear Macromodeling

                                             SESSION CHAIRS:

                                             Zhaoqing Chen, IBM

                                             Stefano Grivet-Talocia, Politecnico d Torino

 

Efficient Parameterized Nonlinear Simulation of VLSI Circuits using Domain Decomposition Techniques (Student Paper)

     A. Jerome, P. Gunupudi and M. Nakhla................................... Carleton U

 

Macromodels of IC Buffers Allowing for Large Power Supply Fluctuations

     I. S. Stievano, C. Siviero, I. A. Maio and F. G. Canavero.... Politecnico di Torino

 

System level Validation of Improved IO Buffer Behavioral Modeling Methodology Based on IBIS

     Ambrish Varma, Michael Steer and Paul Franzon........ North Carolina State U

 

 

Piedmont Registration

10:20 – 10:40 am                   Refreshment Break

 

Atlanta Ballroom

10:40 – 11:20 pm                  Session XVI – EM Modeling II

                                          SESSION CHAIRS:

                                          Kaladhar Radhakrishnan, Intel

                                          Jian-Ming Jin, University of Illinois

 

Electromagnetic Simulation for Inhomogeneous Interconnect and Packaging Structures

     Lijun Jiang, Barry J Rubin, Yuan Liu, Jason D Morsey, and Alina Deustch......IBM

 

Cylindrical Conduction Mode Basis Functions for Modeling of Inductive Couplings in System-in-Package (SiP) (Student Paper)

     Ki Jin Han, Ege Engin and Madhavan Swaminathan..................................

     ..........................................................Georgia Institute of  Technology

 

Georgia East Ballroom

11:20 – 1:00 pm                    Lunch (for Meeting attendees)

                                              Awards

                                              Closing Remarks