Farrokh Mottahedin
Quantum Corporation
(408) 324-7934
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Abe Riazi [SMTP:[email protected]]
> Sent: Saturday, April 17, 1999 9:53 AM
> To: '[email protected]'
> Cc: Walt Otto
> Subject: [SI-LIST] : An Interesting Presentation
>
> Dear All,
>
> Recently, I reviewed an interesting paper by Dr. Howard Johnson, which
> had been presented at DesignCon99. It is a PDF file (busarch.pdf)
> entitled: "Bus Architecture & Timing", available at the High Speed
> Design Web Site: http://www.signcon.com/
>
> The paper evaluates design difficulty of several different buses in
> terms of bus timing ratio defined by [( bus delay ) / (clock period)].
> The results are summarized below:
>
> Bus: PC-AT, Bus timing ratio: 0.008,
> Mode: Slow , Design: Easy;
>
>
> Bus: PCI, Bus timing ratio: 0.062,
> Mode: Skew, Design: -------;
> Bus: RAMbus, Bus timing ratio: 2.5,
> Mode: Distributed clock, Design: -------;
>
> Bus: Ethernet 10BASE-5, Bus timing ratio: 100, Mode:
> Time-space, Design: More difficult;
>
> In the final slide it is stated: " The ratio (bus delay)/(clock
> period) is a key indicator of bus design difficulty".
>
> Admittedly, I was surprised by the conclusion and method of analysis
> employed by this article. Here, a parameter dependent on the PERIOD is
> used to evaluate difficulty of bus design. It seems to me that
> "Critical Length" is preferable for appraisal of design (or simulation)
> complexity of a high speed bus architecture. The Critical Length Lc
> varies with the RISE TIME (i.e. Lc = k * Tr / D , where Tr is the Rise
> Time ), rather than with the period or frequency.
>
> Your comments are appreciated.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Abe Riazi
> Anigma, Inc.
>
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