Title :
Data coding methods for low-power aided design of submicron interconnects
Author :
Mahdoum, A. ; Hamimed, L. ; Louzri, M. ; Saadaoui, M.
Author_Institution :
Div. of Microelectron. & Nanotechnol., Centre de Dev. des Technol. Av., Algiers, Algeria
Abstract :
We present in this paper a CAD tool that aims at designing low-energy buses. The Graphical User Interface (GUI) we developed manages many techniques dealing with the addressed problem: simple coding, coding subject to fixed/dynamic probabilities and an enhanced dynamic probabilities-based technique. Moreover, this environment allows tuning the parameters of data encoding/decoding and is able to generate different gains by varying the size of the bus transferring the encoded data. Thus, this tool is suitable for efficiently designing telecommunication and multimedia systems that are strong data consumers and can be easily configured to integrate new coding techniques, then using one of them when favorably compared against the other techniques.
Keywords :
CMOS integrated circuits; circuit CAD; decoding; encoding; graphical user interfaces; integrated circuit design; integrated circuit interconnections; low-power electronics; power aware computing; probability; system buses; CAD tool; CMOS technology; GUI; data coding methods; data decoding; fixed-dynamic probability technique; graphical user interface; low-energy buses design; low-power aided design; multimedia systems; submicron interconnects; telecommunication design; Capacitance; Decoding; Encoding; Energy dissipation; Graphical user interfaces; Very large scale integration; Wires; Data coding; energy dissipation; submicron interconnects;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Signal Processing and their Applications (WOSSPA), 2011 7th International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Tipaza
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0689-9
DOI :
10.1109/WOSSPA.2011.5931417
