• DocumentCode
    1075921
  • Title

    Clock buffer chip with multiple target automatic skew compensation

  • Author

    Watson, Richard B., Jr. ; Iknaian, Russell B.

  • Author_Institution
    Digital Semicond. Div., Digital Equipment Corp., Hudson, MA, USA
  • Volume
    30
  • Issue
    11
  • fYear
    1995
  • fDate
    11/1/1995 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1267
  • Lastpage
    1276
  • Abstract
    This paper describes the application of a digital delay locked loop that compensates for variable delays on the clock chip, printed circuit board clock traces, and the clock systems on multiple ASICs. For a computer system consisting of nine PC boards (“modules”) plugged into a back plane with two clock chips per board and six ASICs per clock chip, a locking range of 25-150 MHz was achieved with a maximum skew in the system of less than 1 ns
  • Keywords
    CMOS digital integrated circuits; buffer circuits; compensation; delay circuits; timing circuits; 25 to 150 MHz; clock buffer chip; digital delay locked loop; multiple target automatic skew compensation; variable delay compensation; Application software; Application specific integrated circuits; Clocks; Control systems; Delay; Electromagnetic compatibility; Frequency; Printed circuits; Signal design; Timing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9200
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/4.475715
  • Filename
    475715