• 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