High-Speed Interconnect for a Multiprocessor Server Using Over 1Tb/s Crossbar

A 170GB/S crossbar for a multiprocessor server is realized with 10 LSIs. High density and low power are achieved with a 1.333 Gb/s single-ended signal transmission, a driver using pre-emphasis, and a receiver using a data-synchronous scheme. The total bandwidth of the address crossbar LSI is 1.23Tb/s with 704 drivers and 352 receivers