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CONCLUSION AND OUTLOOK

In conclusion, we have introduced a full three-dimensional simulation tool for capacitive and thermal interconnect analysis. Basic geometric operations are applied on the two-dimensional layout data to obtain the three-dimensional simulation structure. For the numerical investigations the finite element method is used. For further performance improvements the number of grid points can be reduced at same numeric accuracy, by implementing a fully unstructured algorithm for Delaunay mesh generation as introduced in [3].



Rainer Sabelka
1998-01-30