Variation Tolerant On-Chip Interconnects

• Main Author: Nigussie, Ethiopia Enideg (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2012.
• Series: Analog Circuits and Signal Processing
• Subjects: Engineering.; Nanotechnology.; Electronics.; Microelectronics.; Electronic circuits.; Circuits and Systems.; Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation.; Nanotechnology and Microengineering.

This book presents design techniques, analysis and implementation of high performance and power efficient, variation tolerant on-chip interconnects.  Given the design paradigm shift to multi-core, interconnect-centric designs and the increase in sources of variability and their impact in sub-100nm t...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• On-Chip Communication
• Interconnect Design Techniques
• Design of Delay-Insensitive Current Sensing Interconnects
• Enhancing Completion Detection Performance
• Energy Efficient Semi-Serial Interconnect
• Comparison of the Designed Interconnects
• Circuit Techniques for PVT Variation Tolerance.