Design and Evaluating Carbon Nanotube Interconnects for a Generic Delta MIN

Multi-stage Interconnection Networks (MINs) are important hardware platforms in various applications due to increasing design complexity and cost. Further, they are generally accepted concepts for solving the problems related to on-chip communications. Carbon nanotube (CNT) is a promising candidate for future on-chip interconnects and electro-thermal applications due to its superior electrical and thermal properties. Although MINs have been around for many years and they can greatly benefit as they reduce costs and complexities in the network, there has been hardly any attempt to exploit the CNT characteristics to design and implementation of MINs. In an attempt to fill this gap, this paper presents a novel method for implementation of MINs using CNT-based interconnects. The performance evaluation of these networks is compared to that of conventional CMOS interconnect in 16nm process technology and reflect a great deal of improvement in network performance.