Time‐domain simulation of coupled interconnects

The paper presents a new technique for the transient analysis and simulation of lossy coupled interconnects. The approach is based on identifying natural modes of oscillation unlike many other transmission‐line models which are based on travelling waves. The approach follows directly from that previously presented by the author (Wilcox and Condon 1997) for the simulation of a single‐phase coaxial power cable. The technique is readily applicable to modelling coupled interconnects and avoids the time‐consuming convolution of many existing transmission‐line modelling approaches.