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DAC
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Clock buffer and wire sizing using sequential programming
This paper investigates methods for clock skew minimization using buffer and wire sizing. First, a technique that significantly improves solution quality and stability of sequent...
Matthew R. Guthaus, Dennis Sylvester, Richard B. B...
ASPDAC
2008
ACM
169views Hardware» more  ASPDAC 2008»
13 years 6 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
ISQED
2005
IEEE
95views Hardware» more  ISQED 2005»
13 years 10 months ago
Statistical Analysis of Clock Skew Variation in H-Tree Structure
This paper discusses clock skew due to manufacturing variability and environmental change. In clock tree design, transition time constraint is an important design parameter that c...
Masanori Hashimoto, Tomonori Yamamoto, Hidetoshi O...
ISLPED
2006
ACM
122views Hardware» more  ISLPED 2006»
13 years 10 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...