Performance of Intra-Chip Wireless Interconnect Using On-Chip Antennas and UWB Radios

Abstract

Performance of intra-chip wireless interconnect using on-chip antennas and UWB radios

Silicon Photonics for Inter/Intra-Chip Wireless Communication Using RF On-Chip Antennas

“…Table II presents the performance comparison of state of art on-chip antennas. Among the list, the meander antenna design presented in this work demonstrates the highest transmission data rate without requiring substrate doping [51] or packaging substrate [52]. While our proposed antenna design utilizes a slightly larger footprint compared to [51] and [52], it is important to note that its operating frequency is lower.…”

“…Among the list, the meander antenna design presented in this work demonstrates the highest transmission data rate without requiring substrate doping [51] or packaging substrate [52]. While our proposed antenna design utilizes a slightly larger footprint compared to [51] and [52], it is important to note that its operating frequency is lower. Transitioning the same design to higher frequency would consequently reduce the antenna size.…”

Broadcast-oriented wireless network-on-chip : fundamentals and feasibility

“…Zhang et al confirmed that on-chip propagation has a similar path loss exponent that those of within-chassis environments, suggesting that propagation sums up the contribution of several paths. Their subsequent work in [172] used such channel characterization to demonstrate that Binary Phase-Shift Keying (BPSK) signals at the 22-29 GHz band could be transmitted at 3.33 Gbps with a BER lower than 10 −20 at a four centimeter distance.…”

“…These waves show particularly low attenuation per unit of distance due to their cylindrical characteristics and are affected by the circuits printed on the chip surface. When using printed dipoles in a high permittivity substrate, surface waves are reported to become the dominant propagation mode as long as the ratio between the substrate thickness and the free-space wavelength is greater than 0.045 [93,172]. However, the scenario also suggests the use of patch antennas with very low radiation efficiency in the coplanar direction [101].…”

“…In our case, the scenario is static and can be not only known a priori, but even modified at design time to optimize certain metrics. For instance, the characteristics of the dielectric used throughout the chip can be tuned as they have an impact upon performance [172].…”