Approaching Speed-of-light Distortionless Communication for On-chip Interconnect

We extend the Surfliner on-chip distortionless transmission line scheme and provide more details for the implementation issues. Surfliner seeks to approach distortionless transmission by intentionally adding shunt resistors between the signal line and the ground. In theory if we distributively make the shunt conductance G=RC/L, there will be no distortion at the receiver end and the signal propagates at the speed of light. We show the feasibility and advantages of this shunt resistor scheme by a real design case of single-ended microstrip line in 0.10

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: ASPDAC
• Authors: Haikun Zhu, Rui Shi, Chung-Kuan Cheng, Hongyu Chen
• Keywords: ASPDAC 2007, Hardware, Shunt Conductance G=rc/l, Shunt Resistor Scheme, Shunt Resistors