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ICCAD
2010
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
Local clock skew minimization using blockage-aware mixed tree-mesh clock network
Clock network construction is one key problem in high performance VLSI design. Reducing the clock skew variation is one of the most important objectives during clock network synthe...
Linfu Xiao, Zigang Xiao, Zaichen Qian, Yan Jiang, ...
FPGA
2006
ACM
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14 years 4 months ago
FPGA clock network architecture: flexibility vs. area and power
This paper examines the tradeoffs between flexibility, area, and power dissipation of programmable clock networks for FieldProgrammable Gate Arrays (FPGA's). The paper begins...
Julien Lamoureux, Steven J. E. Wilton
ICCAD
1993
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
Optimal sizing of high-speed clock networks based on distributed RC and lossy transmission line models
We have proposed an e cient measure to reduce the clock skew by assigning the clock network with variable branch widths. This measure has long been used for \H" clock tree. T...
Qing Zhu, Wayne Wei-Ming Dai, Joe G. Xi
ISLPED
2003
ACM
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14 years 5 months ago
Energy recovery clocking scheme and flip-flops for ultra low-energy applications
A significant fraction of the total power in highly synchronous systems is dissipated over clock networks. Hence, low-power clocking schemes would be promising approaches for futu...
Matthew Cooke, Hamid Mahmoodi-Meimand, Kaushik Roy
ISPD
2005
ACM
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14 years 6 months ago
Improved algorithms for link-based non-tree clock networks for skew variability reduction
In the nanometer VLSI technology, the variation effects like manufacturing variation, power supply noise, temperature etc. become very significant. As one of the most vital nets...
Anand Rajaram, David Z. Pan, Jiang Hu
ASPDAC
2005
ACM
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14 years 6 months ago
Clock network minimization methodology based on incremental placement
: In ultra-deep submicron VLSI circuits, clock network is a major source of power consumption and power supply noise. Therefore, it is very important to minimize clock network size...
Liang Huang, Yici Cai, Qiang Zhou, Xianlong Hong, ...
ISLPED
2006
ACM
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14 years 6 months ago
Dynamic thermal clock skew compensation using tunable delay buffers
—The thermal gradients existing in high-performance circuits may significantly affect their timing behavior, in particular, by increasing the skew of the clock net and/or alteri...
Ashutosh Chakraborty, Karthik Duraisami, Ashoka Vi...
ICCAD
2006
IEEE
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14 years 6 months ago
Clock buffer polarity assignment for power noise reduction
Abstract—Power/ground noise is a major source of VLSI circuit timing variations. This work aims to reduce clock network induced power noise by assigning different signal polariti...
Rupak Samanta, Ganesh Venkataraman, Jiang Hu
FPL
2007
Springer
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14 years 6 months ago
Clock-Aware Placement for FPGAs
The programmable clock networks in FPGAs have a significant impact on overall power, area, and delay. Not only does the clock network itself dissipate a significant amount of powe...
Julien Lamoureux, Steven J. E. Wilton
VLSID
2007
IEEE
131views VLSI» more  VLSID 2007»
14 years 6 months ago
A Placement Methodology for Robust Clocking
As the VLSI technology scales towards the nanometer regime, circuit performance is increasingly affected by variations. These variations need to be considered at an early stage in...
Ganesh Venkataraman, Jiang Hu