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ICCAD
1997
IEEE
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Interconnect design for deep submicron ICs
Interconnect has become the dominating factor in determining circuit performance and reliability in deep submicron designs. In this embedded tutorial, we first discuss the trends...
Jason Cong, David Zhigang Pan, Lei He, Cheng-Kok K...
DAC
1999
ACM
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Model Order-Reduction of RC(L) Interconnect Including Variational Analysis
As interconnect feature sizes continue to scale to smaller dimensions, long interconnect can dominate the IC timing performance, but the interconnect parameter variations make it ...
Ying Liu, Lawrence T. Pileggi, Andrzej J. Strojwas
LCN
2000
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Reliability Modeling of SCI Ring-Based Topologies
Performance evaluation and reliability prediction are two important factors in the study of multiprocessor and cluster interconnects. One such interconnect is the Scalable Coheren...
M. A. Sarwar, Alan D. George, David E. Collins
GLVLSI
2000
IEEE
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Manhattan or non-Manhattan?: a study of alternative VLSI routing architectures
Circuit interconnect has become a substantial obstacle in the design of high performance systems. In this paper we explore a new routing paradigm that strikes at the root of the i...
Cheng-Kok Koh, Patrick H. Madden
FPL
2009
Springer
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14 years 4 months ago
Static versus scheduled interconnect in Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Arrays
Spatially-tiled architectures, such as Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Arrays (CGRAs), are powerful architectures for accelerating applications in the digital-signal processing, em...
Brian Van Essen, Aaron Wood, Allan Carroll, Stephe...
ECRTS
2002
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
The FTT-Ethernet Protocol: Merging Flexibility, Timeliness and Efficiency
Despite having been designed to interconnect office equipment such as computers and printers, since its early days Ethernet has also been considered for use in the industrial doma...
Paulo Pedreiras, Luís Almeida, Paolo Gai
ISCA
2010
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
An intra-chip free-space optical interconnect
Continued device scaling enables microprocessors and other systems-on-chip (SoCs) to increase their performance, functionality, and hence, complexity. Simultaneously, relentless s...
Jing Xue, Alok Garg, Berkehan Ciftcioglu, Jianyun ...
SLIP
2003
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Perimeter-degree: a priori metric for directly measuring and homogenizing interconnection complexity in multilevel placement
In this paper, we describe an accurate metric (perimeter-degree) for measuring interconnection complexity and effective use of it for controlling congestion in a multilevel framew...
Navaratnasothie Selvakkumaran, Phiroze N. Parakh, ...
IPPS
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Cost/Performance Tradeoffs in Network Interconnects for Clusters of Commodity PCs
The definition of a commodity component is quite obvious when it comes to the PC as a basic compute engine and building block for clusters of PCs. Looking at the options for a mo...
Christian Kurmann, Felix Rauch, Thomas Stricker
ISCAS
2005
IEEE
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14 years 5 months ago
Analysis of power consumption in VLSI global interconnects
Abstract— The analysis of effects induced by interconnects become increasingly important as the scale of process technologies steadily shrinks. While most analyses focus on the t...
Youngsoo Shin, Hyung-Ock Kim