Abstract:
The information revolution and upcoming era of silicon ultra large-scale
integration (ULSI) have demanded an ever-increasing level of functional integration on
single chip structure, driving a need for greater circuit density and higher performance.
While traditional transistor scaling has thus far met this challenge, interconnect scaling
has become the performance-limiting factor for new designs. In this thesis, we
investigated the potentials of wireless on-chip interconnects system using for the future
ULSI. It has been proposed, for the first time, transmitted reference (TR) Ultra Wideband
(UWB) communication for intra-chip wireless interconnects system. This approach
allows a straight-forward synchronization technique by giving proper delay to the
reference pulse and thus avoids complicated intra-chip channel estimation for the
detection unit. Therefore it results a simplified transceiver architecture. Moreover TR
technique provides excellent multiple access capabilities to implement software
reconfigurable wireless channel. The system performance has been investigated under a
new modulation scheme termed as PAM-PPM technique, which shows superior system
performance over the conventional Biphase Modulation technique.
