Sparse and Passive Reduced-Order Interconnect Modeling by Eigenspace Method

Abstract

The passive and sparse reduced-order modeling of a RLC network is presented, where eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the original network are used, and thus the obtained macromodel is more accurate than that provided by the Krylov subspace methods or TBR procedures for a class of circuits. Furthermore, the proposed method is applied to low pass filtering of a reduced-order model produced by these methods without breaking the passivity condition. Therefore, the proposed eigenspace method is not only a reduced-order macromodeling method, but also is embedded in other methods enhancing their performances.