A Telecom Baseband Circuit based on an Asynchronous Network-on-Chip

Abstract

The FAUST chip integrates a baseband processing architecture in which communications between IPs are supported by an asynchronous network-on-chip (NoC). This distributed and modular structure facilitates physical implementation and power management. A 20-node NoC is implemented in 79.5mm <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sup> using 0.13mum 6M CMOS to address 100Mb/s telecom systems