• "A 64-b Quad-Issue CMOS RISC Microprocessor", by N.Gaddis, et.al. (HP)
  • See

    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, November 1996


    HP PA-8000


    Die Photo


    Functional Block Diagram


    H-tree Clock Network


    Third-level Buffer (gater)


    Extracted Clock Network


    Clock Skew "Topo" Map


    Clearing Operand Dependencies


    Comparator Bit Slice for Clearing Operand Dependencies


    Clearing Carry Borrow Dependencies


    Logic for Clearing Carry Borrow Dependencies


    Cache Index Comparator Bit Slice


    Shmoo Plot