盧信嘉臺灣大學：電子工程學研究所周宗毅Chou, Tsung-YiTsung-YiChou2007-11-272018-07-102007-11-272018-07-102007http://ntur.lib.ntu.edu.tw//handle/246246/57279本論文以一個新的傳輸線架構-挖槽的半同軸線為基礎，並且利用所提出的周邊電路，解決晶片中廣域連結的傳輸問題。此系統使用台灣積體電路公司 0.18 微米製程，經由量測結果證實，可在1.8V峰值到峰值時達到每秒傳輸 4 兆位元以上的資料。此利用傳輸線為基礎的系統，其傳輸速度也比傳統使用中繼器來的快速。This work is based on a novel structure of transmission line — slotted semi-coaxial line and adopts the proposed peripheral circuits to solve the problem of global interconnect. This work adopted TSMC 0.18μm technology and it is proved by the measurement results that the proposed structure can transmit up to 4 Gbps data at 1.8V peak-to-peak. The system which adopted the proposed transmission line is also faster than the conventional RC repeater.摘要 i Abstract ii Chapter 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Motivation 1 1.2 Previous art in global interconnect 2 1.2.1 RC repeater 4 1.2.2 Optoelectronic links 5 1.2.3 Transmission line 6 1.2.4 Comparison 7 1.3 Overview 8 Chapter 2 Current On-chip Interconnect Technique 10 2.1 Introduction 10 2.2 Signal distribution 11 2.2.1 Transmission line behavior of interconnections 12 2.2.2 Transmission line reflections and matching mechanism 16 2.2.3 When are transmission lines effects important? 20 2.2.4 Typical transmission line structure for interconnections 23 2.3 Circuits structure and interconnections 25 2.3.1 Driver and receiver circuit design consideration 30 2.3.2 Previous art of the driver and receiver circuit design 39 2.3.2.1 Modulation of signal 39 2.3.2.2 Improved transmission line 43 2.3.2.3 Distributed loss compensation 45 Chapter 3 Slotted Semi-coaxial Line and Circuit Design 51 3.1 The background of semi-coaxial transmission line 51 3.2 The characteristic of semi-coaxial transmission line 55 3.3 The proposed slotted semi-coaxial transmission line 59 3.4 Improved transmitter and receiver circuits 65 3.4.1 The transmitter circuit 65 3.4.2 The receiver circuit 68 3.5 Physical layout and simulation results 70 Chapter 4 Measurement Procedures and Results 81 4.1 Measurement procedures of on-chip interconnect 81 4.2 Measurement results 85 Chapter 5 Conclusion 90 Reference 94en-US積體電路內部連結傳輸線單晶積體電路晶片內部連結廣域連結Integrated circuit interconnectionstransmission linemonolithic integrated circuitson-chip interconnectglobal interconnectthesis