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Lecture 9 - Åbo Akademi

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Motivation<br />

• Copper interconnects also constitute up to 70% of total onchip<br />

capacitance<br />

• major sources of power dissipation<br />

• According to the International Technology Roadmap for<br />

Semiconductors (ITRS), interconnect innovation with new<br />

technologies is vital<br />

• to satisfy performance, reliability, power requirements in long term<br />

• support ultra-high data rates (greater than 100 Gbps/pin)<br />

• be scalable enough to support tens to hundreds of concurrent<br />

communication streams

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