Bus encoding to prevent crosstalk delay
Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
Pipeline damping: a microarchitectural technique to reduce inductive noise in supply voltage
Proceedings of the 30th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Analysis and Avoidance of Cross-Talk in On-Chip Buses
HOTI '01 Proceedings of the The Ninth Symposium on High Performance Interconnects
Exploiting Crosstalk to Speed up On-Chip Buses
Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe - Volume 2
Controlling inductive cross-talk and power in off-chip buses using CODECs
ASP-DAC '06 Proceedings of the 2006 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference
Bus stuttering: an encoding technique to reduce inductive noise in off-chip data transmission
Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe: Proceedings
On-Chip Communication Architectures: System on Chip Interconnect
On-Chip Communication Architectures: System on Chip Interconnect
Proceedings of the 17th ACM Great Lakes symposium on VLSI
Information theoretic approach to address delay and reliability in long on-chip interconnects
Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
Data handling limits of on-chip interconnects
IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems
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Inductive cross-talk within IC packaging is becoming a significant bottleneck in high-speed inter-chip communication. The parasitic inductance within IC packaging causes bounce on the power supply pins in addition to glitches and rise-time degradation on the signal pins. Until recently, the parasitic inductance problem was addressed by aggressive package design. In this work we present a technique to encode the off-chip data transmission to limit bounce on the supplies and reduce inductive signal coupling due to transitions on neighboring signal lines. Both these performance limiting factors are modeled in a common mathematical framework. Our experimental results show that the proposed encoding based techniques result in reduced supply bounce and signal degradation due to inductive cross-talk, closely matching the theoretical predictions. We demonstrate that the overall bandwidth of a bus actually increases by 85% using our technique, even after accounting for the encoding overhead. The asymptotic bus size overhead is between 30% and 50%, depending on how stringent the user-specified inductive cross-talk parameters are.