Title
Theoretic Bounds to Information Transmission Through Electrical Circuits
Abstract
The paper investigates the fundamental limits of communication over electrical multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) networks in which information transmission is associated to energy exchanges. We first develop the computation of the Shannon capacity of a MIMO, wideband, frequency-dependent, time-invariant channel. This gives us the fundamental equations linking the achievable bit-rate, the needed power and its distribution over the necessary bandwidth. Such equations are then specialized to a general cascade of electrical stages and further detailed to tackle the case of a specific lumped elements circuit. With reference to such a circuit the effectiveness of the method is demonstrated by addressing simple cases which highlight the role of different kinds of coupling between electrical paths. Finally, the case of transmission over intra-chip buses realized with a real-world silicon technology is addressed, for which the effect of massive parallelism is discussed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/TCSI.2013.2245473
IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
wideband channel,electrical path coupling,fundamental equation,integrated circuit interconnections,power dissipation,lumped elements circuit,data buses,time invariant channel,circuit theory,thermal noise,information theory,lumped parameter networks,achievable bit rate,communication over electrical multiple input multiple output networks,channel capacity,fundamental limits,information transmission theoretic bounds,mimo systems,electrical circuits,mimo,shannon capacity,mimo network,frequency dependent channel
Information theory,Wideband,Electrical network,Control theory,MIMO,Communication channel,Electronic engineering,Bandwidth (signal processing),Network analysis,Channel capacity,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
60
9
1549-8328
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
14
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Riccardo Rovatti137754.32
Gianluca Mazzini229953.69
Cristiano Passerini301.01