On-chip global signaling by wave pipelining

Abstract

This work discusses the signaling performance of wave pipelining over on-chip transmission lines comparing conventional signaling with CMOS static repeater insertion. We experimentally reveal that the wave pipelining over on-chip transmission lines is about ten times superior in the maximum throughput, latency and dissipates several times less energy per bit compared with the conventional signaling, whereas the required interconnect resource is comparable.