Title :
Area and energy-efficient crosstalk avoidance codes for on-chip buses
Author :
Sridhara, Srinivasa R. ; Ahmed, Arshad ; Shanbhag, Naresh R.
Author_Institution :
ECE Dept., Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL, USA
Abstract :
Capacitive crosstalk between adjacent wires in long on-chip buses significantly increases propagation delay in the deep submicron regime. A high-speed bus can be designed by eliminating crosstalk delay through bus encoding. In this paper, we present an overview of the existing coding schemes and show that they require either a large wiring overhead or complex encoder-decoder circuits. We propose a family of codes referred to as overlapping codes that reduce both overheads. We construct two codes from this family and demonstrate their superiority over existing schemes in terms of area and energy dissipation. Specifically, for a 1-cm 32-bit bus in 0.13-μm CMOS technology, we present a 48-wire solution that has 1.98× speed-up, 10% energy savings and requires 20% less area than shielding.
Keywords :
CMOS integrated circuits; codes; crosstalk; delays; low-power electronics; system-on-chip; 0.13 micron; 1 cm; CMOS technology; bus encoding; capacitive crosstalk; coding; complex encoder-decoder circuits; crosstalk avoidance codes; crosstalk delay elimination; deep submicron regime; on-chip buses; overlapping codes; propagation delay; CMOS technology; Capacitance; Circuits; Codecs; Crosstalk; Energy dissipation; Energy efficiency; Propagation delay; Wires; Wiring;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Design: VLSI in Computers and Processors, 2004. ICCD 2004. Proceedings. IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2231-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICCD.2004.1347891