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Tucked up away on the third floor, lies Apartment #5. A quaint little place, which I’ve learned to call home these past two years. Though in these last few months, it’s become my shelter, my hideaw...

This work introduces the fringe RLGC (i.e., resistance, inductance, conductance, and capacitance) models to accurately compute the broadband S parameters for not only large power planes but also thin signal traces in multi-layered package and PCB environments. With comparable accuracy and 100/spl times/ faster than a 3D full-wave field solver, this technique enables ultra-fast design iterations to optimize the layouts for insertion and return losses, resonance frequencies, and placement of decoupling capacitors, etc.