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Several advantages and problems associated with technology scaling. One of the most important problems facing technology scaling is interconnects. As technology scales down wire delay becomes dominant. Optical interconnects has been subject of many researches for more than two decades to overcome this problem. The key idea behind near speed of light transmission (NSoLT) is that for buffers at the end of ITRS projections input capacitances could be as small as tens of atto Farads. Hence, voltage of the end of global wires could jump at the time of flight.
In this project, a global wire has been divided in to k segments in a way that data can be transferred with the speed close to the... 

As the transistors’ dimensions in integrated circuits shrink, according to Moore’s law, a number of challenges emerges that can decrease the benefits of scaling. One of the main challenges in deep submicron CMOS technologies is the delay in interconnects. In recent years, researchers have been looking into different methods to minimize the delay in interconnects. International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) predicts that the input capacitance of a buffer will become in the order of 10s of aFs with technology scaling. This will give us the opportunity to transmit the data in electrical interconnects near the speed of light.In this thesis, a novel buffer is designed in which the...