Title :
Picosecond imaging circuit analysis of the POWER3 clock distribution
Author :
Sanda, P.N. ; Knebel, D.R. ; Kash, J.A. ; Casal, H.F. ; Tsang, J.C. ; Seewann, E. ; Papermaster, M.
Author_Institution :
IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
Abstract :
Picosecond imaging circuit analysis (PICA) is shown to be a valuable means for measuring internal timing of microprocessors operating at speed. In this paper, PICA is applied to the analysis of delays and skew of the IBM POWER3 64b microprocessor clock distribution.
Keywords :
clocks; delays; microprocessor chips; timing; 64 bit; IBM POWER3; PICA; clock distribution; delays; internal timing; microprocessors; picosecond imaging circuit analysis; skew; Circuit analysis; Clocks; Microprocessors; Optical attenuators; Optical buffering; Optical imaging; Phase locked loops; Repeaters; Stimulated emission; Timing;
Conference_Titel :
Solid-State Circuits Conference, 1999. Digest of Technical Papers. ISSCC. 1999 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5126-6
DOI :
10.1109/ISSCC.1999.759301
