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Surfliner: A Distortionless Electrical Signaling Scheme for Speed of Light On-Chip Communications
San Jose, California October 02-October 05
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Hongyu Chen, University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA
Rui Shi, University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA
Chung-Kuan Cheng, University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA
David M. Harris, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711

We present a novel scheme to implement distortion- less transmission lines for on-chap edectracal signaling. By introducing intentional leakage conductance between the wires of a differential pair, the distortionless trans- mission line eliminates dispersion caused b y the resis- tive nature of on-ch ip wires and achieves speed of light transmission. We show that it is feasible to construct distortionless transmission line with conventional sili- con process. Simulation results show that using 65nm technology, the proposed scheme can achieve 15Gbits/s bandwidth over a 20mm on-chip serial link without any equalization. This approach offers a six times improve- ment in delay and 85% reduction in power consumption over a conventional RC wire with repeated buffers.

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Hongyu Chen, Rui Shi, Chung-Kuan Cheng, David M. Harris, "Surfliner: A Distortionless Electrical Signaling Scheme for Speed of Light On-Chip Communications," iccd, pp.497-502, 2005 International Conference on Computer Design, 2005
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