Error control systems for digital communication and storage
Error control systems for digital communication and storage
Carbon nanotubes in interconnect applications
Microelectronic Engineering
Low Power Error Resilient Encoding for On-Chip Data Buses
Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe
Wireless Communications
Error control coding in low-power wireless sensor networks: when is ECC energy-efficient?
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
Improved ber performance in intra-chip rf/wireless interconnect systems
Proceedings of the 18th ACM Great Lakes symposium on VLSI
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Power consumption of fault tolerant busses
IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems
Power reduction of CMP communication networks via RF-interconnects
Proceedings of the 41st annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture
A scalable micro wireless interconnect structure for CMPs
Proceedings of the 15th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Coding for system-on-chip networks: a unified framework
IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems
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Continuous scaling of conventional hard-wired metal interconnects into deep sub-micrometer region (DSM) has resulted in significant performance degradation in terms of delay, crosstalk noise, higher power dissipation, and decreased tolerance to noise. Besides, communication-centric nature of system-on-chip (SOC) networks requires efficient intra- and inter-chip interconnect technologies. Radio-frequency (RF)/wireless interconnects promise to be the best alternative to metal interconnects as they are compatible with current CMOS-technology, and they also provide higher data rate and bi-directional multi I/O transmissions. This paper evaluates the system bit-error-rate (BER) performance with the application of fault-tolerance capability using linear error-control codes (ECCs) within chip (intra-chip) RF/wireless interconnect systems. It also evaluates the utility of ECCs by considering energy consumed in ECC encoding-decoding vis-a-vis the energy saved due to coding gain by calculating the critical distance (d"c"r). The results indicate that for a certain range of received signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), application of ECC improves the BER performance of the RF/wireless interconnect system. It is also shown that d"c"r drops to 0.7mm at 18GHz.