A robust alternate repeater technique for high performance busses in the multi-core era

Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 372-375

  Kaul, Himanshu ^a   Seo, Jae Sun ^b   Anders, Mark ^a   Sylvester, Dennis ^b   Krishnamurthy, Ram ^a  

^a INTEL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM; MULTI CORES; ON CHIPS; PEAK CURRENTS;

NETWORKS (CIRCUITS);

EID: 51749116545     PISSN: 02714310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS.2008.4541432     Document Type: Conference Paper

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