TY - JOUR
T1 - Can RF Help CMOS processors?
AU - Socher, Eran
AU - Chang, Mau Chung Frank
PY - 2007/8
Y1 - 2007/8
N2 - Digital circuits implemented in CMOS technology have been the workhorses of high performance computer processors for more than a decade, following Moore's law with exponentially increasing integration and performance. Driven by lower cost, increasing performance, and mixedsignal benefits, CMOS technology also has found increasing use in analog, and more recently, RF applications. Now, with transistor performance still improving, wires are becoming the limiting factor for speed and performance by imposing limits on communication bandwidth and latency between processing cores and emories, both offand on-chip. Communication and circuit techniques, developed mainly for narrow band-wireless RF communication can help increase the wired communication speed in digital systems. This approach, dubbed RF Interconnect (RF-I), picks up speed for on-board and on-chip applications, changing the communication paradigm from the old parallel unidirectional time-shared bus to new transmission lines enabling reconfigurable communication using both frequency and code division multiple access techniques.
AB - Digital circuits implemented in CMOS technology have been the workhorses of high performance computer processors for more than a decade, following Moore's law with exponentially increasing integration and performance. Driven by lower cost, increasing performance, and mixedsignal benefits, CMOS technology also has found increasing use in analog, and more recently, RF applications. Now, with transistor performance still improving, wires are becoming the limiting factor for speed and performance by imposing limits on communication bandwidth and latency between processing cores and emories, both offand on-chip. Communication and circuit techniques, developed mainly for narrow band-wireless RF communication can help increase the wired communication speed in digital systems. This approach, dubbed RF Interconnect (RF-I), picks up speed for on-board and on-chip applications, changing the communication paradigm from the old parallel unidirectional time-shared bus to new transmission lines enabling reconfigurable communication using both frequency and code division multiple access techniques.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=34548657919&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/MCOM.2007.4290322
DO - 10.1109/MCOM.2007.4290322
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AN - SCOPUS:34548657919
SN - 0163-6804
VL - 45
SP - 104
EP - 111
JO - IEEE Communications Magazine
JF - IEEE Communications Magazine
IS - 8
ER -