Title :
Low power current mode multi-valued logic interconnect for high speed interchip communications
Author :
Zhang, J.Q. ; Long, S.I. ; Ho, F.H. ; Madsen, J.K.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA, USA
fDate :
Oct. 29 1995-Nov. 1 1995
Abstract :
A new GaAs current mode (CM) chip-to-chip interconnection circuit is presented that provides high signal transfer speed with a 50 /spl Omega/ active termination and reduced input voltage swing. The power dissipation is shown to be 1/8 of an ECL I/O. The ternary logic version of it can reduce wiring by half and eliminate clock skew problems while still keeping the low power dissipation.
Keywords :
III-V semiconductors; field effect logic circuits; gallium arsenide; integrated circuit interconnections; multivalued logic; multivalued logic circuits; ternary logic; GaAs; chip-to-chip interconnection circuit; current mode MVL; high signal transfer speed; high speed interchip communications; low power operation; multivalued logic interconnect; power dissipation; ternary logic version; Clocks; Driver circuits; Gallium arsenide; Impedance; Integrated circuit interconnections; Multivalued logic; Power dissipation; Power transmission lines; Termination of employment; Voltage;
Conference_Titel :
Gallium Arsenide Integrated Circuit (GaAs IC) Symposium, 1995. Technical Digest 1995., 17th Annual IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2966-X
DOI :
10.1109/GAAS.1995.529022
