SGER: Application of Communication-Theoretic Principles to Nano Interconnect Research

互连已被公认为纳米技术中十大最难的问题之一。这个项目的一个基本观察是，纳米互连问题与现实世界中的通信非常相似。为了保证在噪声和随机环境下的可靠、快速和安全的通信，人们进行了大量的研究。因此，该研究正在利用通信理论原理和发展创新的信号概念来解决纳米互连的随机性。主要的焦点是CMOS中的纳米硅技术，其特征尺寸小于100nm，目标是探索在噪声和随机受限的纳米互连环境中实现可靠和快速信号的方法。具体目标是：1。为各种纳米互连场景开发现实而简单的通信模型；2 .研究通信理论规定的基本信号限制（可实现速率的估计表明高达Tbits/sec）；展示纳米信号的互连设计技术，可以潜在地接近理论信号极限。这是通过几种创新的结合来实现的，包括(i)多线（差分）全双工信号，（ii）信号调制，编码和均衡，以及（iii）利用而不是避免极深亚微米（VDSM）效应，如潜在信号的波传输。

Interconnect has been recognized one of ten hardest problems in nano technologies. A basic observation underlying this project is that nano-interconnect issues are much similar to that in real-world communication. Much research has been conducted to ensure the reliable, fast and secure communication over a noisy and stochastic environment. Therefore, the research is exploiting communication-theoretic principles and developing innovative signaling concepts in solving the stochastic nature of nano interconnect. The primary focus is on nano silicon technologies in CMOS with feature sizes below 100nm, and the goal is to explore ways to achieve reliable and fast signaling over the noisy and stochastically limited nano-interconnect environment. The specific objectives are1. to develop realistic-yet-simple communication models for various nano interconnect scenarios,2. To study fundamental signaling limits dictated by communication theory (estimates of achievable rates indicate up to Tbits/sec.),3. to demonstrate interconnect design techniques for nano-signaling that can potentially approach the theoretical signaling limitsThis is being made possible by a combination of several innovations that include (i) multi-wire (differential) full-duplex signaling, (ii) signal modulation, coding and equalization, and (iii) utilization, instead of avoiding, very-deep-submicron (VDSM) effects such as wave transmission for potential signaling.