• 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