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On signalling over through-silicon via (TSV) interconnects in 3-D integrated circuits.

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Published
Publication date03/2010
Number of pages4
Pages1325-1328
<mark>Original language</mark>English
EventDesign Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference - Dresden, Germany
Duration: 1/01/2010 → …

Conference

ConferenceDesign Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference
CityDresden, Germany
Period1/01/10 → …

Abstract

This paper discusses signal integrity (SI) issues and signalling techniques for Through Silicon Via (TSV) interconnects in 3-D Integrated Circuits (ICs). Field-solver extracted parasitics of TSVs have been employed in Spice simulations to investigate the effect of each parasitic component on performance metrics such as delay and crosstalk and identify a reduced-order electrical model that captures all relevant effects. We show that in dense TSV structures voltage-mode (VM) signalling does not lend itself to achieving high data-rates, and that current-mode (CM) signalling is more effective for high throughput signalling as well as jitter reduction. Data rates, energy consumption and coupled noise for the different signalling modes are extracted.