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
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