Abstract
In this paper, a discontinuous Galerkin time-domain (DGTD) method is developed to analyze the power-ground planes taking into account the decoupling capacitors. In the presence of decoupling capacitors, the whole physical system can be split into two subsystems: 1) the field subsystem that is governed by Maxwell's equations that will be solved by the DGTD method, and 2) the circuit subsystem including the capacitor and its parasitic inductor and resistor, which is going to be characterized by the modified nodal analysis algorithm constructed circuit equations. With the aim to couple the two subsystems together, a lumped port is defined over a coaxial surface between the via barrel and the ground plane. To reach the coupling from the field to the circuit subsystem, a lumped voltage source calculated by the integration of electric field along the radial direction is introduced. On the other hand, to facilitate the coupling from the circuit to field subsystem, a lumped port current source calculated from the circuit equation is introduced, which serves as an impressed current source for the field subsystem. With these two auxiliary terms, a hybrid field-circuit matrix equation is established, which enables the field and circuit subsystems are solved in a synchronous scheme. Furthermore, the arbitrarily shaped antipads are considered by enforcing the proper wave port excitation using the magnetic surface current source derived from the antipads supported electric eigenmodes. In this way, the S-parameters corresponding to different modes can be conveniently extracted. To further improve the efficiency of the proposed algorithm in handling multiscale meshes, the local time-stepping marching scheme is applied. The proposed algorithm is verified by several representative examples.
Recommended Citation
P. Li et al., "Discontinuous Galerkin Time-Domain Analysis Of Power-Ground Planes Taking Into Account Decoupling Capacitors," IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology, vol. 7, no. 9, pp. 1476 - 1485, article no. 7883911, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Electronics Packaging Society, Sep 2017.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1109/TCPMT.2017.2671413
Department(s)
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Keywords and Phrases
Arbitrarily shaped antipads; decoupling capacitor; discontinuous Galerkin time-domain (DGTD) method; hybrid field-circuit solver; local time stepping (LTS); lumped port; modified nodal analysis (MNA); power-ground plane; wave port excitation
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
2156-3950
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
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Publication Date
01 Sep 2017
