Optimum positioning of interleaved repeaters in bidirectional buses

Author

Ghoneima, Maged ; Ismail, Yehea

Author_Institution

Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL, USA

fYear

2003

fDate

2-6 June 2003

Firstpage

586

Lastpage

591

Abstract

It is shown in this paper that the optimum position of interleaved repeaters for minimum delay and noise is not the midpoint as commonly practiced. A closed form solution for the optimum position has been derived in this paper and verified by simulation. Bi-directional buses with the optimum interleaved repeater position are compared to commonly used bi-directional buses and shown to provide an improvement of as much as 100% in both the propagation delay and bit-rate per unit area. The area of the induced noise pulse on victim lines is shown to be zero indicating that the aggressor lines is shown to be zero indicating that the aggressor lines are virtually static when optimum repeater positioning is used.

Keywords

delay estimation; position control; repeaters; system buses; aggressor line; bidirectional bus; closed form solution; induced noise pulse; interleaved repeater; optimum positioning; propagation delay; Bidirectional control; Capacitance; Crosstalk; Integrated circuit interconnections; Integrated circuit noise; Integrated circuit technology; Propagation delay; Repeaters; Semiconductor device noise; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Design Automation Conference, 2003. Proceedings

Print_ISBN

1-58113-688-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DAC.2003.1219087

Filename

1219087