Title :
Introduction to Digital I/O: Constraining I/O Power Consumption in High-Performance Systems
Author :
Carusone, Tony Chan
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Abstract :
Digital I/O performance is now a headline specification in practically any high-performance electronic system, from consumer products to enterprise servers. Any future progress in integrated circuit computational capability must naturally be matched with progress on digital I/O. As a result, recent research has led to tremendous progress in the data rates communicated over individual chip-to-chip links.
Keywords :
consumer products; integrated circuits; power consumption; chip-to-chip link; consumer product; high-performance electronic system; integrated circuit; power consumption; Bandwidth; Clocks; Dielectric losses; Digital systems; Frequency measurement; Impedance; Integrated circuit interconnections; Performance evaluation; Receivers;
Journal_Title :
Solid-State Circuits Magazine, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MSSC.2015.2476016