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High Speed And Low Voltage Swing On-Chip BUS

고속 저전압 스윙 온 칩 버스

  • Yang, Byeong-Do (Dept. of Electronic Computer Science, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) ;
  • Kim, Lee-Seop (Dept. of Electronic Computer Science, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
  • 양병도 (한국과학기술원 전자전산학과) ;
  • 김이섭 (한국과학기술원 전자전산학과)
  • Published : 2002.02.01
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Abstract

A new high speed and low voltage swing on-chip BUS using threshold voltage swing driver and dual sense amplifier receiver is proposed. The threshold voltage swing driver reduces the rising time in the bus to 30% of the full CMOS inverter driver and the dual sense amplifier receiver increases twice the throughput. of the conventional reduced-swing buses using sense amplifier receiver. With threshold voltage swing driver and dual sense amplifier receiver combined, approximately 60% speed improvement and 75% power reduction are achieved in the proposed scheme compared to the conventional full CMOS inverter for the on-chip bus.

문턱전압 스윙 드라이버(threshold voltage swing driver)와 이중 감지 증폭기 리시버(dual sense amplifier receiver)를 가진 새로군 고속 저전압 스윙 온 칩 버스 (on-chip BUS)를 제안하였다. 문턱전압 스윙 드라이버는 버스에서의 전압상승 시간을 CMOS 인버터(inverter) 드라이버에서의 약 30% 이내로 줄여주고, 이중 감지 증폭기 리시버는 감지 증폭기 리시버를 사용하는 기존의 저전압 스윙 버스들의 데이터 전송량을 두 배 향상시켜 준다. 문턱전압 스윙 드라이버와 이중 감지 증폭기 리시버를 모두 사용할 경우, 온 칩 버스에서 사용하는 기존의 CMOS 인버터와 비교하여 제안된 방식은 약 60%의 속도 증가와 75%의 소모전력 감소를 얻는다.

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