The feasibility of on-chip interconnection using antennas

Author

O, K.K. ; Kim, Kunsu ; Floyd, Brian ; Mehta, Jigar ; Yoon, Hee-Sung ; Hung, Chu-Mei ; Bravo, D. ; Dickson, Timothy ; Guo, Xuemei ; Li, Ruodai ; Trichy, N. ; Caserta, J. ; Bomstad, W. ; Branch, J. ; Yang, D.-J. ; Bohorquez, Jorge ; Chen, Jiann-Jong ; Seok,

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Florida Univ., Gainesville, FL, USA

fYear

2005

fDate

6-10 Nov. 2005

Firstpage

979

Lastpage

984

Abstract

The feasibility of integrating antennas and required circuits to form wireless interconnects in foundry digital CMOS technologies has been demonstrated. The key challenges including the effects of metal structures associated with integrated circuits, heat removal, packaging, and interaction of transmitted and received signals with nearby circuits appear to be manageable. Besides, on-chip interconnection, this technology can potentially be applied for implementation of true single chip radio and radar, interchip communication systems, RFID tags and others.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; antennas; integrated circuit design; integrated circuit interconnections; radio access networks; radiofrequency identification; RFID tags; circuit-received signal interaction; circuit-transmitted signal interaction; digital CMOS technology; heat removal; integrated circuits; integrating antennas; interchip communication systems; on-chip interconnection; packaging; single chip radar; single chip radio; wireless interconnects; Antennas and propagation; Clocks; Delay; Dipole antennas; Frequency; Integrated circuit interconnections; Propagation losses; Receiving antennas; Silicon; Transmitting antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer-Aided Design, 2005. ICCAD-2005. IEEE/ACM International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9254-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCAD.2005.1560204

Filename

1560204