Title
Package level interconnect options
Abstract
Scaling enhances intrinsic transistor performance and degrades interconnects. As the technology steps into nanometer era, global interconnects are becoming bottleneck for overall chip performance. In this paper, we show package level interconnects are an effective alternative for on-chip global wiring. These interconnects behave as LC transmission lines and can be exploited for their near speed of light transmission and low attenuation characteristics. We compare performance - bandwidth, bandwidth density, latency and power consumption - of the package level transmission lines with conventional on-chip global interconnects for different ITRS technology nodes. Based on these results, we show package level interconnects are well suited for power demanding low latency applications and we analyze different interconnect options like memory buses, long inter tile interconnects, clock and power distribution.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1145/1053355.1053361
SLIP
Keywords
Field
DocType
inter tile interconnects,degrades interconnects,overall chip performance,intrinsic transistor performance,on-chip global wiring,package level interconnects,light transmission,lc transmission line,conventional on-chip global interconnects,global interconnects,speed of light,package,transmission lines,transmission line,chip,low latency
Bottleneck,Computer science,Latency (engineering),Electronic engineering,Chip,Electric power transmission,Bandwidth (signal processing),Latency (engineering),Transistor,Interconnection
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-59593-033-7
3
0.50
References 
Authors
6
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
J. Balachandran1112.87
S. Brebels2134.25
G. Carchon361.40
T. Webers430.50
W. De Raedt562.08
B. Nauwelaers6104.72
E. Beyne7295.72