DocumentCode
2569485
Title
Distributed Loss Compensation for Low-latency On-chip Interconnects
Author
Jose, Anup P. ; Shepard, Kenneth L.
Author_Institution
Columbia Univ., New York, NY
fYear
2006
fDate
6-9 Feb. 2006
Firstpage
1558
Lastpage
1567
Abstract
The use of distributed loss compensation for on-chip interconnects is discussed. Results are presented for a 14mm 3Gb/s on-chip link in 0.18mum CMOS with a measured latency of 12.1ps/mm and an energy dissipation of 2pJ/b with a BER<10-14. A 3times improvement in power consumption and a 1.5times improvement in latency over an optimally-repeated RC line is demonstrated
Keywords
CMOS integrated circuits; RC circuits; integrated circuit design; integrated circuit interconnections; 14 mm; 3 Gbit/s; BER; CMOS; RC line; distributed loss compensation; energy dissipation; on-chip interconnects; power consumption; Attenuation; Bandwidth; Capacitance; Degradation; Delay; Energy efficiency; Frequency; Transconductors; Transmission lines; Wires;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2006. ISSCC 2006. Digest of Technical Papers. IEEE International
Conference_Location
San Francisco, CA
ISSN
0193-6530
Print_ISBN
1-4244-0079-1
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ISSCC.2006.1696207
Filename
1696207
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