Wire Placement for Crosstalk Energy Minimization in Address Buses

  • Authors:
  • L. Macchiarulo;E. Macii;M. Poncino

  • Affiliations:
  • Politecnico di Torino, Torino, ITALY;Politecnico di Torino, Torino, ITALY;Politecnico di Torino, Torino, ITALY

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We propose a novel approach to bus energy minimization that targetscrosstalk effects. Unlike previous approaches, we try to reduceenergy through capacitance optimization, by ad opting non-uniformspacing between wires. This allows reduction of power,and at the same time takes into account signal integrity. Therefore,performance is not degraded. Results show that the methodsaves up to 30% of total bus energy at no cost in performanceor complexity of the design (no encoding-decoding circuitry isneeded), and limited cost in area.