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DAC
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Clock skew optimization via wiresizing for timing sign-off covering all process corners
Manufacturing process variability impacts the performance of synchronous logic circuits by means of its effect on both clock network and functional block delays. Typically, varia...
Sari Onaissi, Khaled R. Heloue, Farid N. Najm
DAC
2008
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Leakage power-aware clock skew scheduling: converting stolen time into leakage power reduction
Clock skew scheduling has been traditionally considered as a tool for improving the clock period in a sequential circuit. Timing slack is "stolen" from fast combinationa...
Min Ni, Seda Ogrenci Memik
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
DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Enhancing timing-driven FPGA placement for pipelined netlists
FPGA application developers often attempt to use pipelining, Cslowing and retiming to improve the performance of their designs. Unfortunately, such registered netlists present a f...
Kenneth Eguro, Scott Hauck
DATE
2007
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Design closure driven delay relaxation based on convex cost network flow
Design closure becomes hard to achieve at physical layout stage due to the emergence of long global interconnects. Consequently, interconnect planning needs to be integrated in hi...
Chuan Lin, Aiguo Xie, Hai Zhou