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TACO: temperature aware clock-tree optimization

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TACO: temperature aware clock-tree optimization
— In this paper, an efficient linear time algorithm TACO is proposed for the first time to minimize the worst case clock skew in the presence of on-chip thermal variation. TACO, while tries to minimize the worst case clock skew, also attempts to minimize the clock tree wirelength by building up merging diamonds in a bottom-up manner. As an output, TACO provides balanced merging points and the modified clock routing paths to minimize the worst case clock skew under thermal variation. Experimental results on a set of standard benchmarks show 50 - 70% skew reduction with less than 0.6% wirelength overhead.
Minsik Cho, Suhail Ahmed, David Z. Pan
Added 16 Mar 2010
Updated 16 Mar 2010
Type Conference
Year 2005
Where ICCAD
Authors Minsik Cho, Suhail Ahmed, David Z. Pan
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