Abstract
Transmission lines are becoming of common use at
mm-wave to implement on-chip functions as impedance matching,
filtering and interconnects. Lack of an accurate and fast simula-
tion method is nonetheless evident for transmission lines in scaled
CMOS where metal dummies inserted for IC planarization make
their physical structure extremely complicate. Although lines are
not uniform due to displacement of small dummies, they are still
periodic. In this paper, we describe an analytical procedure, lev