DocumentCode
2730408
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
fYear
1999
fDate
17-17 Feb. 1999
Firstpage
372
Lastpage
373
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;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Solid-State Circuits Conference, 1999. Digest of Technical Papers. ISSCC. 1999 IEEE International
Conference_Location
San Francisco, CA
ISSN
0193-6530
Print_ISBN
0-7803-5126-6
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ISSCC.1999.759301
Filename
759301
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