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ISQED
2007
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Sensitivity Based Link Insertion for Variation Tolerant Clock Network Synthesis
Clock distribution is one of the key limiting factors in any high speed, sub-100nm VLSI design. Unwanted clock skews, caused by variation effects like manufacturing variations, po...
Joon-Sung Yang, Anand Rajaram, Ninghy Shi, Jian Ch...
ICCAD
2010
IEEE
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13 years 5 months ago
Low-power clock trees for CPUs
Clock networks contribute a significant fraction of dynamic power and can be a limiting factor in high-performance CPUs and SoCs. The need for multi-objective optimization over a l...
Dongjin Lee, Myung-Chul Kim, Igor L. Markov
ISQED
2002
IEEE
105views Hardware» more  ISQED 2002»
14 years 10 days ago
Impact Analysis of Process Variability on Clock Skew
This paper presents a methodology for the statistical analysis of clock tree structures. It allows to accurately predict and analyze the impact of process variation on clock skew....
Enrico Malavasi, Stefano Zanella, Min Cao, Julian ...
ISQED
2007
IEEE
120views Hardware» more  ISQED 2007»
14 years 1 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, ...
ASPDAC
2007
ACM
116views Hardware» more  ASPDAC 2007»
13 years 11 months ago
A Global Minimum Clock Distribution Network Augmentation Algorithm for Guaranteed Clock Skew Yield
Abstract-- Nanometer VLSI systems demand robust clock distribution network design for increased process and operating condition variabilities. In this paper, we propose minimum clo...
Bao Liu, Andrew B. Kahng, Xu Xu, Jiang Hu, Ganesh ...