Long Term Research Visions 3

With exponentially increasing integration densities and shrinking characteristic geometries on a chip, the wires, rather than devices, become the dominant factor in deciding the performance, power consumption, and reliabilities of a VLSI system. Previous researches on the interconnectcentric design methodologies mainly concentrate on optimizing individual nets. Instead of searching for the best algorithm to optimize each individual net, my thesis work takes a view of the on-chip interconnection architectures, and improves the system performance by considering both geometrical arrangements, electrical behaviors, and architectural properties.