On the necessity of combining coding with spacing and shielding for improving performance and power in very deep sub-micron interconnects

  • Authors:
  • T. Murgan;P. B. Bacinschi;S. Pandey;A. García Ortiz;M. Glesner

  • Affiliations:
  • Inst. of Microelectronic Systems, Darmstadt Univ. of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany;Inst. of Microelectronic Systems, Darmstadt Univ. of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany;Group for Computer Architecture, Univ. of Bremen, Bremen, Germany;AnaFocus, Seville, Spain;Inst. of Microelectronic Systems, Darmstadt Univ. of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany

  • Venue:
  • PATMOS'07 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Integrated Circuit and System Design: power and timing modeling, optimization and simulation
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In this work, the necessity of combining signal encoding schemes with low-level anti-crosstalk techniques like spacing and shielding is analyzed. It is shown that in order to increase the throughput improvement and/or reduce the power consumption, coding schemes should be integrated with layout techniques since methods like spacing and shielding can be regarded as very simple encoding schemes. On this basis, a theoretical framework for assessing the improvement in throughput and/or power consumption is constructed. Furthermore, several possibilities to integrate coding with classical anti-crosstalk techniques are discussed.