On-Chip Communication Architectures

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communication architectures today has become a major challenge for designers,

requiring a careful, time-consuming decision process to adequately balance the

different constraints (power, performance, area) of the application.

1.4.3 Impact of Technology Scaling

The increasing levels of component integration would not have been possible

without technology scaling that has enabled a reduction in transistor size, allow-

ing more of them to be integrated into the same area with each passing technol-

ogy generation. However, these technological advances that have ushered the

industry into the deep submicron (DSM) era, with the ongoing commercialization ...