Sometimes it is better to buy a course handout and see if it worth
attending. Too bad these institutions don't just put the handout
material on a web page.
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Don Abernathey |
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[email protected] |
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On Jan 24, 9:08am, Weston Beal wrote:
> Subject: Short Course: High Speed VLSI Interconnecti
> I just noticed this on newsgroup. I have not taken the course, and I don't
know anyone
> involved. I'm just an information distributor.
>
> In case anybody cares:
>
> In article [email protected], [email protected]
(Linda M. Pease) writes:
> }The Office of Continuing Education,
> }Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology,
> }offers the following intensive short course for
> }scientists and engineers
> }
> }High Speed VLSI Interconnections
> }
> }Customer demands for smaller integrated circuit chips with higher speeds
> }have resulted in the production of chips having millions of
> }interconnections in the multilevel and multilayer configurations. The
> }parasitic effects associated with the chip-to-chip and on-chip
> }interconnections in such high-density environments have become the major
> }factors in the advancement of the very high speed integrated circuit
> }technology. This course will focus on the numerical modeling and computer
> }simulation of the various phenomena associated with the VLSI
> }interconnections used for high-speed applications. These include
> }parasitic capacitances and inductances, crosstalk, propagation delays and
> }electromigration-induced failure. The potential future interconnection
> }technologies including the active interconnections, optical
> }inter-connections and the superconducting interconnections will also be
> }reviewed.
> }
> }Course Outline
> }
> } -Introduction to metallic, optical and
> } superconducting interconnections
> } -Method of multiple images
> } -Even- and odd-mode capacitances
> } -Transmission line equations
> } -Definitions of propagation delays
> }
> } -Propagation modes in a microstrip
> } interconnection
> } -Slow-wave mode propagation
> } -Waveguide interconnections
> }
> } and Inductances
> } -Simplified approximate formulas
> } -The Green's function method
> } -The network analog method
> }
> } -Lumped-capacitance approximation
> } -Coupled multiconductor metal-
> } insulator-semiconductor microstrip
> } line model
> } -Frequency domain modal analysis
> } -Transmission line analysis of parallel
> } and crossing interconnections
> }
> } -Metal-insulator-semiconductor
> } microstrip line model
> } -Transmission line analysis of parallel
> } and crossing interconnections
> } -Very high frequency losses in a
> } microstrip interconnection
> }
> } -Overview of electromigration
> } in interconnection metallizations
> } -Electromigration due to repetitive
> } pulsed currents
> } -Models of integrated circuit reliability
> } -Failure analysis of interconnection
> } components
> } -Tools of computer-aided failure analysis
> }
> } -Active interconnections
> } -Optical interconnections
> } -Superconducting interconnections
> }
> }
> }COURSE SCHEDULE and
> }INFORMATION
> }
> }Course Number: 1787
> }Dates/Times: Monday-Wednesday,
> } Feb. 26-28, 1996
> } 8:30am-5:00pm
> }Instructor: Ashok Goel
> }Location: CC 368, WCC
> } Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology
> } 20000 NW Walker Road, Beaverton, Oregon
> }Course Fee: $995 (includes
> } instruction, course materials,
> } PCs for lab exercises,breaks and lunches)
> } Parking is free.
> }
> }For more information or registration, call (503) 690-1219;
> }email: [email protected];
> }Web URL: http://www.ogi.edu/Continuing-Ed/
>
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