Description: 1 Introduction.- 1.1 Overview of the VLSI Design and Verification Process.- 1.2 Problems in MOS Digital Macromodeling.- 1.3 Contributions of The New Macromodel.- 2 Survey of Simulation and Macromodeling Techniques.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 Circuit Simulation.- 2.3 Macromodeling.- 2.4 Gate-level and Switch-level Simulation.- 2.5 Switch-level Timing Simulation.- 2.6 Fast-timing Simulation.- 2.7 Interconnection Analysis.- 2.8 Mixed-mode/Mixed-domain Simulation.- 3 A Nonlinear Macromodel.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 A Macromodel for the General Case.- 3.3 Macromodeling with Fast Input Transitions.- 3.4 Slow Input and Fast Output Transitions.- 3.5 Experimental Results.- 4 Reduction Techniques for Complex Gates.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 Reduction of Series-connected Transistors.- 4.3 Generalized Reduction Techniques for Complex Gates.- 4.4 Experimental Results.- 5 Accounting for RC-Interconnects.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.2 Related Work.- 5.3 RC-interconnect Effects.- 5.4 Modeling the Effective Driver-loading.- 5.5 Driver Output Waveform Estimation.- 5.6 Experimental Results.- 6 Transmission Gate Modeling.- 6.1 Introduction.- 6.2 A Gate Driving a Transmission Gate.- 7 Conclusions.- 7.1 Summary.- 7.2 Future Research.- A The Spice Level 2 Model.- B Nonlinear Macromodel Output Response Derivations.- B.1 The Derivation of the Output Response in Region III.- B.2 The Derivation of the Output Response in Region VI.- D Delay Errors for Various AOI Gates.- References.

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