Optical Clock Distribution in Electronic Systems

Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems for Signal, Image, and Video Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 2-3, 1997, Pages 225-246

  Tewksbury, Stuart K ^a,b,c,d   Hornak, Lawrence A ^a,c,d,e,f  

^a West Virginia University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^d WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONICS PACKAGING; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; TIMING CIRCUITS;

OPTICAL CLOCK DISTRIBUTION;

DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0031164193     PISSN: 13875485     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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