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ASPDAC
2010
ACM
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13 years 5 months ago
A dual-MST approach for clock network synthesis
Abstract--In nanometer-scale VLSI physical design, clock network becomes a major concern on determining the total performance of digital circuit. Clock skew and PVT (Process, Volta...
Jingwei Lu, Wing-Kai Chow, Chiu-Wing Sham, Evangel...
DAC
2004
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Reducing clock skew variability via cross links
Increasingly significant variational effects present a great challenge for delivering desired clock skew reliably. Non-tree clock network has been recognized as a promising approac...
Anand Rajaram, Jiang Hu, Rabi N. Mahapatra
ASPDAC
2008
ACM
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13 years 9 months ago
Buffered clock tree synthesis for 3D ICs under thermal variations
In this paper, we study the buffered clock tree synthesis problem under thermal variations for 3D IC technology. Our major contribution is the Balanced Skew Theorem, which provides...
Jacob R. Minz, Xin Zhao, Sung Kyu Lim
ISPD
2010
ACM
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14 years 2 months ago
Skew management of NBTI impacted gated clock trees
NBTI (Negative Bias Temperature Instability) has emerged as the dominant failure mechanism for PMOS in nanometer IC designs. However, its impact on one of the most important compo...
Ashutosh Chakraborty, David Z. Pan