Ground bounce

Ground bounce

In electronic engineering, ground bounce is a phenomenon associated with transistor switching where the gate voltage can appear to be less than the local ground potential, causing the unstable operation of a logic gate.

Description

Ground bounce is usually seen on high density VLSI where insufficient precautions have been taken to supply a logic gate with a sufficiently low resistance connection (or sufficiently high capacitance) to ground. In this phenomenon, when the gate is turned on, enough current flows through the emitter-collector circuit that the silicon in the immediate vicinity of the emitter is pulled high, sometimes by several volts, thus raising the local ground, as perceived by the transistor, to a value significantly above true ground. Relative to this local ground, the BASE voltage can go negative, thus shutting off the transistor. As the excess local charge dissipates, the transistor turns back on, possibly causing a repeat of the phenomenon, sometimes up to a half-dozen bounces.

Ground bounce is one of the leading causes of "hung" or metastable gates in modern digital circuit design. This happens because the ground bounce puts the input of a flip flop effectively at voltage level that is neither a one or a zero at clock time, or causes untoward effects in the clock itself. A similar phenomenon may be seen on the collector side, called "V"CC sag, where VCC is pulled unnaturally low.

References

* Jeff Barrow, " [http://www.analog.com/library/analogdialogue/archives/41-06/ground_bounce.pdf Reducing Ground Bounce] ", (2007), Analog Devices
* Vikas Kumar, " [http://www.techonline.com/community/tech_group/38010 Ground Bounce Primer] ", (2005), TechOnLine.
* " [http://www.pericom.com/pdf/applications/AN005.pdf Ground Bounce in 8-Bit High-Speed Logic] " , Pericom.
* " [http://www.fairchildsemi.com/an/AN/AN-640.pdf AN-640 Understanding and Minimizing Ground Bounce] ", (2003) Fairchild Semiconductor, Application Note 640.
* " [http://www.altera.com/literature/wp/wp_grndbnce.pdf Minimizing Ground Bounce & VCC Sag] ", White Paper, (2001) Altera Corporation.
* " [http://www.ultracad.com/articles/g_bounce.pdf Ground Bounce part-1 and part-2 by Douglas Brooks] ",Articles, Ultra Cad Design.


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