Power Dissipation Estimation in SWCNT based Interconnects

In this work power dissipation in a SWCNT interconnect of intermediate length (400um to 1000um) is estimated. Spice simulation is done for two different transmission line models of interconnect viz. distributed and Pi. Effect on power dissipation with the insertion of repeaters is also studied and comparison is done by varying the number of repeaters i.e. 2, 4, 6 & 8 repeaters. All the simulations are performed with RLC parameters calculated at 32 nanometer technology node. This has been observed that the power dissipation increases with increase in number of repeaters. The dissipation also increases with increase in length of the interconnect.