NASA Office of Logic Design

A scientific study of the problems of digital engineering for space flight systems,
with a view to their practical solution.

Commercial Processor Papers

A section on commercial processors is included for one of following reasons:

Commercial off-the-shelf processors, or devices with similar designs, are finding their way into many spaceborne electronic systems.
Architecture technical interesting.
Circuit design techniques.
- State-of-the-art.
- Susceptibility or hardness to radiation.
- Incorporation of parity, EDAC, retry and other features that are in common with high-reliability and spaceborne systems.

The First IA-64 Microprocessor

Stefan Rusu, Gadi Singer
Intel Corporation

IEEE Journal of Solid-state Circuits
Vol. 35, No. 11
November 2000
pp. 1539-1544

Abstract
The first implementation of the IA-64 architecture achieves high performance by using a highly parallel execution core, while maintaining binary compatibility with the IA-32 instruction set. Explicitly parallel instruction computing (EPIC) design maximizes performance through hardware and software synergy. The processor contains 25.4 million transistors and operates at 800 MHz. The chip is fabricated in a 0.18-um CMOS process with six metal layers and packaged in a 1012-pad organic land grid array using C4 (flip-chip) assembly technology. A core speed back-side bus connects the processor to a 4-MB L3 cache.

Index Terms
Clock deskew, design for test, explicitly parallel instruction computing, IA-64, I/O compensation, microprocessor, source-synchronous bus.

Notes - Interesting use of parity and EDAC along with skew control.

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NASA Office of Logic Design

A scientific study of the problems of digital engineering for space flight systems, with a view to their practical solution.

Commercial Processor Papers

A section on commercial processors is included for one of following reasons:

Commercial off-the-shelf processors, or devices with similar designs, are finding their way into many spaceborne electronic systems.

Architecture technical interesting.

Circuit design techniques.

State-of-the-art.

Susceptibility or hardness to radiation.

Incorporation of parity, EDAC, retry and other features that are in common with high-reliability and spaceborne systems.

A scientific study of the problems of digital engineering for space flight systems,
with a view to their practical solution.