A wireless IC interconnect system and a source synchronous CDMA (SS-CDMA)
bus interface facilitate interconnections between first and second IC
locations. A signal conveyed using the wireless system is modulated and
capacitively coupled to a transmission medium, and then capacitively
coupled from the medium to a receiver which demodulates the modulated
signal and provides the demodulated signal to the second IC location.
Multiple signals can be conveyed simultaneously by modulating and
demodulating them using multiple access algorithms such as CDMA and/or
FDMA. The SS-CDMA bus interface utilizes source synchronous signaling and
CDMA techniques to provide high bus concurrency and low channel latency.
The interface is re-configurable, and provides multi-chip access in
high-bandwidth multi-drop parallel interconnection applications. The
interface employs spread spectrum multiple access schemes, which enable
two or more data bits to be sent through the same channel simultaneously
and successfully recovered at the receiver.