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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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Andersson, D.A., Svensson, L.“., Larsson-Edefors, P. (2004). On Skin Effect in On-Chip Interconnects. In: Macii, E., Paliouras, V., Koufopavlou, O. (eds) Integrated Circuit and System Design. Power and Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation. PATMOS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3254. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30205-6_48
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