Title :
Gaining predictability and noise immunity in global interconnects
Author :
Li, Yinghua ; Kondratyev, Alex ; Brayton, Robert K.
Author_Institution :
California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA
Abstract :
We present a bundled data communication scheme that is robust to crosstalk effects, and to manufacturing and environmental variations. Unlike a data bus, where each receiver always connects to all data lines from the sender, we consider the case where each receiver can have a subset of all data lines routed to it. Such generalization can be used for a bundled data communication method applicable to both local and global communication. It can be used to make a clock unnecessary in a design. It also leads to a new routing problem for which we present an algorithm based on MRSA tree construction to solve it.
Keywords :
clocks; crosstalk; data communication; integrated circuit design; integrated circuit interconnections; network routing; system-on-chip; MRSA tree construction; bundled data communication; clock design; crosstalk effects; data bus; data lines; global communication; global interconnects; local communication; noise immunity; predictability; routing problem; Clocks; Crosstalk; Data communication; Delay; Design methodology; Encoding; Routing; Synchronization; Timing; Wire;
Conference_Titel :
Application of Concurrency to System Design, 2005. ACSD 2005. Fifth International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2363-3
DOI :
10.1109/ACSD.2005.19