A 5.2GHz microprocessor chip for the IBM zEnterprise™ system

Author

Warnock, J. ; Chan, Y. ; Huott, W. ; Carey, S. ; Fee, M. ; Wen, H. ; Saccamango, M.J. ; Malgioglio, F. ; Meaney, P. ; Plass, D. ; Chan, Y. -H ; Mayo, M. ; Mayer, G. ; Sigal, L. ; Rude, D. ; Averill, R. ; Wood, M. ; Strach, T. ; Smith, H. ; Curran, B. ; Sc

Author_Institution

IBM Syst. & Technol. Group, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

20-24 Feb. 2011

Firstpage

70

Lastpage

72

Abstract

The microprocessor chip for the IBM zEnterprise 196 (z196) system is a high frequency, high-performance design that adds support for out-of-order instruction execution and increases operating frequency by almost 20% compared to the previous 65nm design, while still fitting within the same power envelope. Despite the many difficult engineering hurdles to be overcome, the design team was able to achieve a product frequency of 5.2GHz, providing a significant per formance boost for the new system.

Keywords

microprocessor chips; IBM zEnterprise system; design team; frequency 5.2 GHz; high performance design; microprocessor chip; operating frequency; product frequency; Arrays; Capacitance; Clocks; Noise; Program processors; Random access memory; Timing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State Circuits Conference Digest of Technical Papers (ISSCC), 2011 IEEE International

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

0193-6530

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-303-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISSCC.2011.5746223

Filename

5746223