A 60GHz on-chip RF-Interconnect with λ/4 coupler for 5Gbps bi-directional communication and multi-drop arbitration
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...Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TMTT.2015.2504443 Interconnect research has been active in two areas: optical interconnect [3]–[6] and electrical interconnect [7]–[11]....
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...Chang's group [11] demonstrates a design on wired interconnect based on-chip transmission line, which also faces the challenge of increasingly high losses versus frequencies....
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...The proposed SPP-wave interconnect is compared to conventional BB signaling [3], [6], [7], optical-I [1], [23], and RF-I [2], [5]....
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...With the use of passive modulator, the proposed interconnect consumes only 8-mW power, which is less than RF-I using active modulator reported in [2] and [5]....
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...The on-chip modulator can be conventionally implemented based on inductive devices loaded with active MOS transistors [5], [19], [20]....
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...Though multichannel RF interconnects have been introduced for higher aggregate data bandwidth (BW) [2], [5], the CMOS back end of line (BEOL) is normally thin, leading to a high loss and also remarkable EM crosstalk....
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...FUELED by the demand of high data rate and low loss chip-to-chip communication, the interconnect gap have been a challenging issue over decades [1], [2]....
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...With transmission-gatebased switches, signal on the main channel can be terminated to Z0 (100Ω differentially) or passed to subsequent drops [2][4]....
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...Therefore, the next generation of NoC architecture demands the benefit of having on-chip high-speed interconnect with multi-drop and arbitration capabilities as data buses [2][4]....
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...Previously published multi-drop works are either too powerhungry (optical link involves power-consuming O/E and E/O conversions) [4], or has long latency and lacks arbitration capability because of reflections introduced by multiple drops at the baseband and unpredictable receiving priorities [5]....
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...RF modulated and transmission-line-based interconnects (RF-I) have been demonstrated as superior in latency, scalability, re-configurability, bandwidth and power efficiency [1]-[3]....
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...According to [2], RF-I global links combined with local RC wires provide the inter-core network with either 1....
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...With transmission-gatebased switches, signal on the main channel can be terminated to Z0 (100Ω differentially) or passed to subsequent drops [2][4]....
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...This architecture brings superior flexibility and scalability, which potentially saves considerable bandwidth, latency and power on the NoC interconnects [2]....
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...Therefore, the next generation of NoC architecture demands the benefit of having on-chip high-speed interconnect with multi-drop and arbitration capabilities as data buses [2][4]....
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"A 60GHz on-chip RF-Interconnect wit..." refers background in this paper
...Previously published multi-drop works are either too powerhungry (optical link involves power-consuming O/E and E/O conversions) [4], or has long latency and lacks arbitration capability because of reflections introduced by multiple drops at the baseband and unpredictable receiving priorities [5]....
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