Parallel regeneration of interconnections in VLSI & ULSI circuits

The problem of how to efficiently regenerate long interconnections in VLSI and ULSI circuits is addressed. The necessary conditions to regenerate an interconnection are first established. Then, the concept of parallel regeneration is suggested as a novel method that performs much better than conventional methods. It is shown that this method has a property already encountered with conventional methods, i.e., the invariance of the regenerator design versus line length