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18th International Conference on VLSI Design held jointly with 4th International Conference on Embedded Systems Design (VLSID'05)
Active Noise Cancellation Using Aggressor-Aware Clamping Circuit for Robust On-Chip Communication
Kolkata, India
January 03-January 07
ISBN: 0-7695-2264-5
Atul Katoch, Philips Research Laboratories
Maurice Meijer, Philips Research Laboratories
Sanjeev K. Jain, Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi
As the IC process technology scales the on-chip wiring network becomes denser. Increasing aspect ratios of the on-chip interconnects lead to higher coupling capacitances and ultimately higher cross-talk noise, which degrades signal integrity. In this paper we propose a clamping circuit for on-chip busses, which clamps a victim wire in an on-chip bus based on the states of its immediate aggressors. These clampers help the driver of the victim wire in draining the charge, which is induced due to cross-talk between aggressors and victim wires. This helps in decreasing the cross-talk peak noise and also the delay variability (referred to as delay noise). Simulation results for a 10mm long communication bus (parallel wires) laid at minimum pitch in 0.13?m CMOS technology show that a reduction of 30% (17.6%), 37% (27.2%) and 26% (65.8%) in cross-talk peak noise amplitude (delay noise) is observed for point to point, parallel repeater inserted and staggered repeater inserted respectively when only immediate neighbours are considered (1^st order). Furthermore the aggressor-aware clamper is very effective in avoiding glitches, which may occur when more aggressors, in addition to the immediate ones are also switching simultaneously in the same.
Citation:
Atul Katoch, Maurice Meijer, Sanjeev K. Jain, "Active Noise Cancellation Using Aggressor-Aware Clamping Circuit for Robust On-Chip Communication," vlsid, pp.325-329, 18th International Conference on VLSI Design held jointly with 4th International Conference on Embedded Systems Design (VLSID'05), 2005
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