Civil Engineering Reference
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3.4
THE ELMORE DELAY METRIC
The Elmore delay provides a useful technique for estimating the delay of circuits
whose response is well-captured by a dominant time constant. As will be shown
in Section 3.5‚ this metric corresponds to a first order AWE approximation of
a circuit‚ and in cases where multiple time constants affect the behavior of the
system‚ its accuracy may be limited. Nevertheless‚ there is a wide range of
applications for which it is of great utility.
