Applied Introductory Circuit Analysis for Electrical and Computer Engineers

Book excerpt: Table of Contents Preface. Introduction. 1. Fundamental Electrical Concepts. Introduction. Conventions. Charge, Current and Voltage. Power. Circuits, Nodes and Branches. Branch and Node Voltages. Kirchhoff's Voltage and Current Laws. Circuit Elements. Combining Circuit Elements. Voltage- and Current-Divider Circuits. Resistive-Circuit Examples. Power and Energy Relationships. Summary. 2. Gate Delay and RC Circuits. Introduction: Delays in Logic Circuits. Transition Times in CMOS. Inside the CMOS Inverter. Solving First Order RC Circuits. RC Delays in Integrated Circuits. Significance of the Time Constant. Maximum-Inverter Pair Switching Speed. Algebraic Analysis of Inverter Pair Switching Speed. Energy and Power Dissipation in Digital Systems. Other First-Order RC Circuits. Summary. 3. Interconnects and RC Ladder Circuits. Introduction. Resistance and Capacitance of Interconnects. Interconnect Models. Single-RC-Lump Approximation of an Interconnect. Two-RC-Lump Interconnect Approximation. Analysis of the Two-Section-RC Ladder Circuit. Natural Frequencies and Higher Order Circuits. Timing Delays Using the Two-Lump Model. Timing Delays Using Higher-Order Interconnect Models. Summary. 4. Fanout and Capacitive Coupling. Introduction. Fanout. Fanout and Interconnects. Capacitive Coupling and Crosstalk. Capacitive Coupling to a Grounded Adjacent Line. Capacitive Coupling to a Floating Adjacent Line. Capacitive Coupling to an Adjacent Active Line. The Capacitance Matrix. Summary. 5. Package Inductance and RLC Circuit Analysis. Introduction. Modelling the Effects of Package Inductance. First-Order RL Circuits. RLC Circuit Model of Coupled Inverter Gates. dc Steady-State Response of RLC Circuits. Series RLC Circuit Differential Equations. Natural Frequencies of the Series RLC Circuit. Series RLC Circuit Responses. Application to the Digital-System Switching Speed. Gate Conductance and RLGC Circuits. Neglecting Unimportant Components in Circuit