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- Path: sparky!uunet!uchdcc!pchris
- From: pchris@dcc.uchile.cl (Chris Perleberg)
- Subject: Re: Die aspect ratio.
- Originator: pchris@pehuen
- Sender: usenet@dcc.uchile.cl (Network News)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.213900.13437@dcc.uchile.cl>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 21:39:00 GMT
- Reply-To: pchris@dcc.uchile.cl
- References: <16edveINN7or@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Organization: Universidad de Chile, Depto. de Ciencias de la Computacion
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- In article <16edveINN7or@agate.berkeley.edu>, krste@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (Krste Asanovic) writes:
- >
- > It seems unlikely that an irregular design such as a processor or
- > cache controller would map naturally to a square die floorplan. Is
- > there some inherent yield or manufacturability advantage to having a
- > square die? I can think of reticle size and maybe efficient wafer
- > tiling as two reasons.
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- I believe one reason for a square die is to try to minimize clock skew by
- trying to minimize the length of the longest possible delay path (a square
- has shorter paths than a long rectangle with the same area).
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- Chris Perleberg
- pchris@dcc.uchile.cl
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