Swarm intelligence is applied to a module of high speed system design problem. To maintain power integrity in a high speed system, an effective methodology for suppressing the cavity-mode anti-resonances' peaks is presented. The optimal values and the optimal positions of the decoupling capacitors are found using three different swarm intelligence methods -particle swarm optimization, cuckoo search method and firefly algorithm. Optimum values and locations of decoupling capacitors are obtained, by which anti-resonances' peaks of loaded board are minimized. © 2012 IEEE.

Jai Narayan Tripathi

Department of Electrical Engineering

IIT Jodhpur

N.K. Chhabra

R.K. Nagpal

R. Malik

J. Mukherjee

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