Cj. Shi, ANALYSIS, SENSITIVITY AND MACROMODELLING OF THE ELMORE DELAY IN LINEAR-NETWORKS FOR PERFORMANCE-DRIVEN VLSI DESIGN, International journal of electronics, 75(3), 1993, pp. 467-484
The Elmore delay of a linear network has been accepted as a first-orde
r approximation of signal delay in VLSI digital circuits. In this pape
r, a systematic theory for the analysis of the Elmore delay in a linea
r network is established from basic circuit theory. The theory is appl
ied to the sensitivity of signal delays and the macromodelling of larg
e networks.