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Interconnect and Noise Immunity Design for the Pentium 4 Processor
Overview For high-performance chip design in deep submicron technology, interconnect delay and circuit noise immunity have become design metrics of comparable importance to speed, area, and power. Interconnect coupling has increased dramatically due to higher metal aspect ratios with process shrinks. Reduction of transistor lengths and thresholds has led to a drastic increase in subthreshold leakage. The Pentium 4 processor is Intel's fastest processor so far. It contains aggressive domino pipelines, pulsed circuits, and novel circuit families that attain very high speed at the cost of reduced-noise margins. This paper describes the key innovations and learning in methodology and CAD tools.
| Publisher | Intel | File Format | |
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| Date Published | February 2001 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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