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Network-on-Chip (NoC) is an alternative to traditional busses for faster interconnect mechanism. The aim is to have infinite scalability, and this implies the possibility to extend the on-chip NoC communication protocol off-chip. To gain wholesome advantage of Network-on-Chip (NoC), off-chip extensions should also have similar communication throughput compared to the on-chip network. Faster data-rate is the single most demanded requirement of modern applications. There is a continuous drive to fulfill this escalating demand as much as possible. Two of the most prominent limiting factors in achieving this purpose are 'reduced accuracy' and 'protocol handling', especially in case of systems which do not have synchronous communication. Efficient optimizations are needed in multiple areas to upgrade the speed of data transfer. This paper presents an improved off-chip network solution to a slower and error-prone board-bridge part of a Network-on-Chip (NoC). The new solution increases the accuracy and speed of the plesiochronous off-chip extension to the NoC. The Network-on-Chip has 16 processor-nodes implemented on four interconnected plesiochronous Altera Stratix-II FPGA boards in 4x4 configuration in such a way that each board hosts a Quad-core NoC., QC 20140122

An on-chip novel design of a single clock charge pump for high voltage applications is being presented in this paper. The proposed charge pump is designed using AMS 0.35μm technology. Three stages of the proposed charge pump are being used for the results verification and comparing them with the six stages of Dickson charge pump designed with diode connected PMOS. The proposed charge pump gives an output voltage of 5.34V at no-load. The proposed charge pump gives maximum efficiencies of 89% on 1MHz frequency and 87.4% on 5MHz frequency using 1Mohm load resistance. The efficiency and the output voltage including voltage gain per stage of the proposed charge pump are higher than the Dickson charge pump measured under similar conditions mediating that the performance of proposed charge pump is better than the Dickson charge pump., QC 20140911