Title
Design of a Quaternary Single-Ended Current-Mode Circuit for an Energy-Efficient Inter-chip Asynchronous Communication Link
Abstract
A single-ended-style current-mode circuit with quaternary current signaling is proposed for an energy-efficient asynchronous communication link. The use of quaternary-encoded current signaling and dynamic current-feedback mechanism makes information density twice per wire because of small signal-voltage swing with maintaining high-speed switching capability, which resulting in energy-efficient asynchronous data transmission. It is demonstrated that the proposed link with a 10mm inter-chip transmission line achieves the throughput of 1.1Gbps per wire at the power supply of 1.2V under a 130nm CMOS technology.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/ISMVL.2014.20
Multiple-Valued Logic
Keywords
Field
DocType
CMOS logic circuits,asynchronous circuits,current-mode circuits,network-on-chip,telecommunication links,transmission lines,CMOS technology,bit rate 1.1 Gbit/s,dynamic current-feedback mechanism,energy-efficient asynchronous data transmission,energy-efficient inter-chip asynchronous communication link,high-speed switching capability,inter-chip transmission line,network-on-chip,power supply,quaternary single-ended current-mode circuit,quaternary-encoded current signaling,size 10 mm,size 130 nm,small signal-voltage swing,voltage 1.2 V,NoC,asynchronous communication link,current-mode,multiple-valued,network on chip
Asynchronous communication,Transmission line,Data transmission,Computer science,Network on a chip,Chip,CMOS,Electric power transmission,Electronic engineering,Throughput
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0195-623X
2
0.39
References 
Authors
6
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Akira Mochizuki1619.26
Hirokatsu Shirahama2285.25
Takahiro Hanyu344178.58