Due to scaling effects, integrated circuits are becoming increasingly more sensitive to noise and delay effects caused by interconnect coupling. Crosstalk noise has now become a critical design and verification issue in deep submicron designs. Driver sizing is a practical and a feasible technique for controlling the crosstalk noise in the post route design stage. Although an increased victim driver size can easily mitigate the coupled noise, it may create additional crosstalk issues with neighboring wires. In addition, sizing up a gate results in an increased circuit area and affects the timing of paths through the gate. This work proposes a new crosstalk noise mitigation methodology based on our novel transmission gate design. This approach results in smaller area overhead compared to driver sizing taken alone and requires minimum change in circuit layout.

由于缩放效应，集成电路对由互连耦合引起的噪声和延迟效应变得越来越敏感。串扰噪声现已成为深亚微米设计中的关键设计和验证问题。调整驾驶员大小是在后路线设计阶段控制串扰噪声的一种实用可行的技术。尽管增大的受害者驱动器尺寸可以轻松减轻耦合噪声，但可能会与相邻导线产生其他串扰问题。此外，对门进行尺寸调整会导致电路面积增加，并影响通过门的路径时序。这项工作基于我们新颖的传输门设计提出了一种新的串扰噪声缓解方法。