DocumentCode :
3364036
Title :
Transmission line clock driver
Author :
Becker, Matthew E. ; Knight, Thomas F., Jr.
Author_Institution :
Artificial Intelligence Lab., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
fYear :
1999
fDate :
1999
Firstpage :
489
Lastpage :
490
Abstract :
Clock distribution is an important issue in digital design. Engineers want to distribute a square-wave with low skew and fast transition times across very wide chips and they want to do so, wasting as little power as possible. This paper describes a new clock distribution technique utilizing resonant transmission lines that not only reduces clock skew and transition times, but also reduces power consumption by up to an order of magnitude over standard clock drivers
Keywords :
clocks; driver circuits; microprocessor chips; transmission lines; clock distribution; digital design; fast transition times; low skew; microprocessor chips; power consumption; resonant transmission lines; square-wave; transmission line clock driver; Artificial intelligence; Capacitance; Clocks; Frequency; Impedance; Power transmission lines; Resonance; Transmission line theory; Transmission lines; Voltage;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Computer Design, 1999. (ICCD '99) International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Austin, TX
ISSN :
1063-6404
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0406-X
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ICCD.1999.808585
Filename :
808585
Link To Document :
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