As microprocessors become increasingly interconnected, the power consumed by the interconnection network can no longer be ignored. Moreover, with demand for link bandwidth increas...
Power delivery is a growing reliability concern in microprocessors as the industry moves toward feature-rich, powerhungrier designs. To battle the ever-aggravating power consumpti...
Fayez Mohamood, Michael B. Healy, Sung Kyu Lim, Hs...
: In a high performance microprocessor such as Digital's 300MHz Alpha 21164, the distribution of a high quality clock signal to all regions of the device is achieved using a c...
— Power distribution networks (PDNs) are designed and analyzed iteratively. Random walk is among the most efficient methods for PDN analysis. We develop in this paper an increme...