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Publication
ICCD 1998
Conference paper
Circuit design techniques for a gigahertz integer microprocessor
Abstract
Using highly optimized, custom circuits and fast dynamic array control structures, a small team of designers at the IBM Austin Research Laboratory has developed a one gigahertz microprocessor [2]. This paper describes the custom datapath circuit technology employed in this design. Particular attention was paid in the design process to the trade-off between performance and noise-margins. To achieve the low circuit latencies, highly-optimized and noise-characterized delayed-reset domino circuits were employed in the datapath elements of the gigahertz design.