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2004 IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD'04)
pp. 152-159
Design Methodologies and Architecture Solutions for High-Performance Interconnects
Davide Pandini, STMicroelectronics, Italy
Cristiano Forzan, STMicroelectronics, Italy
Livio Baldi, STMicroelectronics, Italy
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In Deep Sub-Micron (DSM) technologies, interconnects play a crucial role in the correct functionality and largely impact the performance of complex System-on-Chip (SoC) designs. For technologies of 0.25 µm and below, wiring capacitance dominates gate capacitance, thus rapidly increasing the interconnect-induced delay. Moreover, the coupling capacitance becomes a significant portion of the on-chip total wiring capacitance, and coupling between adjacent wires cannot be considered as a second-order effect any longer. As a consequence, the traditional top-down design methodology is ineffective, since the actual wiring delays can be computed only after layout parasitic extraction, when the physical design is completed. Fixing all the timing violations often requires several time-consuming iterations of logical and physical design, and it is essentially a trial-and-error approach. Increasingly tighter time-to-market requirements dictate that interconnect parasitics must be taken into account during all phases of the design flow, at different level of abstractions. However, given the aggressive technology scaling trends and the growing design complexity, this approach will only temporarily ameliorate the interconnect problem. We believe that in order to achieve gigascale designs in the nanometer regime, a novel design paradigm, based on new forms of regularity and newly created IP (Intellectual Property) blocks must be developed, to provide a direct path from system-level architectural exploration to physical implementation.
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Davide Pandini, Cristiano Forzan, Livio Baldi,
"Design Methodologies and Architecture Solutions for High-Performance Interconnects,"
iccd,
pp. 152-159,
2004 IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD'04),
2004
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