Toward a multiple clock

Enabled by the continuous advancement in fabrication technology, present-day synchronous microprocessors include more than 100 million transistors and have clock speeds well in excess of the 1-GHz mark. Distributing a low-skew clock signal in this frequency range to all areas of a large chip is a ta...

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Published in:	IEEE Transactions on VLSI systems 13, 5 (2005).
Main Author:	Talpes, E.
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	Application-adaptive multiple-clock processors. Clock signal. Clocking strategies. Comparative analysis. Design exploration. Dynamic power management. Interdomain communication. Low-power design. Multiple clock/voltage island design. Out-of-order processors. Power-aware processors. Superscalar processors. Synchronous microprocessors. Voltage/frequency islands.