Dynamic Self-Shielding Bus Encoding for Signal Integrity Enhancement and Low Power in NOCs
Caixia Liu, Feng Shi, Hongli Zhang · 2008
As feature sizes shrink and clock frequencies increase, Signal integrity and power consumption face critical challenges in design and implementation of NOCs (network-on-chip). A kind of dynamic self-shielding bus encoding scheme is proposed in this article. This scheme aims to provide a high degree of signal integrity through dynamic self-shielding technique and to reduce bus power consumption in NOCs. Qualitative comparisons between our scheme and other state-of-the-art approaches showed that this encoding scheme enhances signal integrity and decreases bus power consumption.