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Title: Design of Power Delivery Network using Power Transmission Lines for High Speed I/O Signaling in Complex Electronic Systems
Committee:
Dr. Madhavan Swaminathan, ECE, Chair , Advisor
Dr. David Keezer, ECE
Dr. Arijit Raychowdhury, ECE
Dr. Linda Milor, ECE
Dr. Paul Kohl, ChBE
Abstract:
Providing clean power and maintaining high signal integrity in modern electronic systems have become a challenge due to increased number of voltage rails in a design, stringent low noise requirement, and increased electromagnetic coupling and crosstalk among different parts of the circuits. Traditional power delivery method utilizes voltage and ground plane pairs. This method is prone to adverse effect from return path discontinuities and cavity resonance to name a few. The objective of this dissertation is to propose a new power delivery network (PDN) design by using power transmission lines (PTL) to replace conventional voltage planes. The PTL design is used to support high speed I/O signaling in complex electronic systems to provide better power and signal integrity along with broadband electromagnetic isolation as compared to current voltage-ground plane based approach.
