IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Online ISSN : 1745-1337
Print ISSN : 0916-8508
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Long-Range Asynchronous On-Chip Link Based on Multiple-Valued Single-Track Signaling
Naoya ONIZAWAAtsushi MATSUMOTOTakahiro HANYU
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2012 Volume E95.A Issue 6 Pages 1018-1029

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We have developed a long-range asynchronous on-chip data-transmission link based on multiple-valued single-track signaling for a highly reliable asynchronous Network-on-Chip. In the proposed signaling, 1-bit data with control information is represented by using a one-digit multi-level signal, so serial data can be transmitted asynchronously using only a single wire. The small number of wires alleviates the routing complexity of wiring long-range interconnects. The use of current-mode signaling makes it possible to transmit data at high speed without buffers or repeaters over a long interconnect wire because of the low-voltage swing of signaling, and it leads to low-latency data transmission. We achieve a latency of 0.45ns, a throughput of 1.25Gbps, and energy dissipation of 0.58pJ/bit with a 10-mm interconnect wire under a 0.13µm CMOS technology. This represents an 85% decrease in latency, a 150% increase in throughput, and a 90% decrease in energy dissipation compared to a conventional serial asynchronous data-transmission link.

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