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Conceptually, the chip
routing matrix has four major hierarchical routing levels, as shown in the
Figure:
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• Ultra-fast local
network--connecting a tile to its eight surrounding neighbors
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• Efficient long-line
network--allowing a signal to reach one, two, or four tiles long
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• High-speed bus
network--distributed throughout the chip
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• High-performance global
network--with a maximum skew of 0.25 ns
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Additionally, robust power
and ground grids ensure minimal supply drops and ground rises, regardless of
chip pro-ramming.
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