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ICCAD
2004
IEEE
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A yield improvement methodology using pre- and post-silicon statistical clock scheduling
— In deep sub-micron technologies, process variations can cause significant path delay and clock skew uncertainties thereby lead to timing failure and yield loss. In this paper,...
Jeng-Liang Tsai, Dong Hyun Baik, Charlie Chung-Pin...
ICCD
2004
IEEE
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Combined Channel Segmentation and Buffer Insertion for Routability and Performance Improvement of Field
In this paper, we propose a combined channel segmentation and buffer insertion approach, which minimizes the number of buffers inserted while satisfying the delay constraints for ...
Hu Huang, Joseph B. Bernstein, Martin Peckerar, Ji...
ISQED
2007
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
Planar-CRX: A Single-Layer Zero Skew Clock Routing in X-Architecture
With its advantages in wirelength reduction and routing flexibility compared with Manhattan routing, X-architecture has been proposed and applied to modern IC design. As a critic...
Weixiang Shen, Yici Cai, Xianlong Hong, Jiang Hu, ...
TVLSI
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Discrete Buffer and Wire Sizing for Link-Based Non-Tree Clock Networks
Clock network is a vulnerable victim of variations as well as a main power consumer in many integrated circuits. Recently, link-based non-tree clock network attracts people's...
Rupak Samanta, Jiang Hu, Peng Li
ICCAD
1999
IEEE
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Clock skew scheduling for improved reliability via quadratic programming
This paper considers the problem of determining an optimal clock skew schedule for a synchronous VLSI circuit. A novel formulation of clock skew scheduling as a constrained quadrat...
Ivan S. Kourtev, Eby G. Friedman