A 480-MHz RISC microprocessor in a 0.12-μm L eff CMOS technology with copper interconnects

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1609-1614

  Akrout, Chekib ^a,b,c,d   Bialas, John ^a,d,e,f   Canada, Miles ^a,d,g,h   Cawthron, Duane ^a   Corr, James ^a   Davari, Bijan ^a,i   Floyd, Robert ^a   Geissler, Stephen ^a   Goldblatt, Ronald ^a   Houle, Robert ^a   Kartschoke, Paul ^a   Kramer, Diane ^a   McCormick, Peter ^a,i   Rohrer, Norman ^a   Salem, Gerard ^a   Schulz, Ronald ^a   Su, Lisa ^a,i   Whitney, Linda ^a  

^a IBM MICROELECTRONICS   (United States)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c IBM   (France)

^d IBM   (United States)

^e Lincoln Technical Institute   (United States)

^f USA and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^h AUGUSTANA COLLEGE   (United States)

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Author keywords

CMOS; Copper; Low threshold; Microprocessor; PowerPC; Reduced instruction set computer (RISC)

Indexed keywords

BUFFER STORAGE; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; REDUCED INSTRUCTION SET COMPUTING; THRESHOLD VOLTAGE;

COPPER INTERCONNECTS;

MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS;

EID: 0032202541     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4.726544     Document Type: Article

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