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The Miller and Anti-Miller Effects
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Author(s):
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Neil C. Wilhelm
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TR-1995-45
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August 1995
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The Miller effect, as it applies to VLSI wiring, is well-known: some combinations of signal values may experience apparent wire capacitances that are much larger than the static capacitances. Less well known is the-anti-Miller-effect: that some combinations of signal values may experience apparent wire capacitances that are much lower than the static capacitances. The consequence of the Miller and anti-Miller effects is a spread in wiring delays from maximum to minimum that may be three-to-one or more.The spread in wire delays can play havoc with circuits and design practices that depend on wires having near-constant delays.
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