Bus Encoding Scheme To Eliminate Unwanted Signal Transitions

  • Authors:
  • Ahmed Elkammar;Norman Scheinberg;Srinivasa Vemuru

  • Affiliations:
  • The City College of the City University of New York;The City College of the City University of New York;Ohio Northern University

  • Venue:
  • DELTA '06 Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Workshop on Electronic Design, Test and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

As the technology scales down, the increased wire aspect ratio and the reduced spacing between the individual wires within a bus result in increased crosscoupling capacitances. This increases crosstalk noise and power dissipation particularly in wide data buses. We propose an efficient encoding scheme that eliminates correlated switching (coupling transitions) in 4-bit busses and also minimizes self-transitions among the wires in these data busses. Wider data busses are implemented using these 4-bit bus blocks.