Weerasekera, Roshan and Zheng, Li-Rong and Pamunuwa, Dinesh Bandara and Tenhunen, Hannu (2005) Switching sensitive driver circuit to combat dynamic delay in on-chip buses. In: Integrated Circuit and System Design. Power and Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation : 15th International Workshop, PATMOS 2005, Leuven, Belgium, September 21-23, 2005. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science . Springer, Berlin, pp. 277-285. ISBN 9783540290131
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In this paper, we propose a novel Interconnect Driver circuit scheme for on-chip bus structures, which changes it’s drive strength based on the switching pattern of the neighbouring interconnect. The circuit is quite simple compared to driver circuits proposed in the literature. The results show that for the cost of a few transistors, the proposed driver circuit has a wider eye opening (upto a 100% improvement) and reduced jitter (up to a 32% reduction) than a traditional driver for typical DSM technologies.