1. Department of Computing &Electrical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton EH14 4AS, Scotland, UK 2. Department of Physics, Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton EH14 4AS, Scotland, UK
Abstract:
We propose an optical H-tree structure to distribute a clock signal onto 16 electronic chips at 1 Gb/s for a clock skew and timing jitter of less than 100 ps. Fabrication steps and performance results are presented.