Moonrake chip - GALS demonstrator in 40 nm CMOS technology

Author

Krstic, Miroslav ; Fan, Xiaodan ; Grass, Eckhard ; Heer, Christoph ; Sanders, Beverly ; Benini, Luca ; Kakoee, Mohammad ; Strano, Alessandro ; Bertozzi, Davide

Author_Institution

IHP, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany

fYear

2011

fDate

Oct. 31 2011-Nov. 2 2011

Firstpage

9

Lastpage

13

Abstract

In this paper we present for the first time a complex GALS ASIC demonstrator in 40 nm CMOS process. This chip, named Moonrake, compares synchronous and GALS synchronization technology in a homogeneous experimental setting: same baseline designs, same manufacturing process, same die. The chip validates GALS technology for both point-to-point and network-centric on-chip communications, demonstrating its potentials for different applications.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; application specific integrated circuits; network-on-chip; 40 nm CMOS technology; GALS ASIC demonstrator; GALS synchronization technology; Moonrake chip; baseline designs; globally asynchronous locally synchronous technology; manufacturing process; network-centric on-chip communications; point-to-point on-chip communications; Couplings; OFDM; Phase locked loops; Switches; Synchronization; Transmitters; GALS; NoC; asynchronous; pausible clocking;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System on Chip (SoC), 2011 International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Tampere

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0671-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4577-0670-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISSOC.2011.6089693

Filename

6089693