Repeater Insertion to Reduce Delay and Power in Copper and Carbon Nanotube-Based Nanointerconnects

Abstract

Optimal repeater designs are performed for Cu and carbon nanotube (CNT)-based nanointerconnects to reduce the delay and power dissipation. The effects of inductance and metal-CNT contact resistance are treated appropriately. In this paper, the circuit parameters are calculated analytically, while they can be extracted experimentally for a specific foundry at a specific technology node. The particle swarm optimization (PSO) technique is employed to numerically calculate the optimal repeater size and the optimal number of repeaters in the Cu and CNT-based nanointerconnects. The results are verified against the analytical and genetic algorithm results. To facilitate CAD design, the machine-learning neural network (NN) is adopted. The data obtained using the PSO algorithm are used to train the NN and the feasibility of the NN is investigated and validated.

Keywords

• Carbon nanotube
• copper
• nanointerconnect
• neural network
• particle swarm optimization
• repeater insertion