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ASPDAC
2001
ACM
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Optimal spacing and capacitance padding for general clock structures
Clock-tuning has been classified as important but tough tasks due to the non-convex nature caused by the skew requirements. As a result, all existing mathematical programming appr...
Yu-Min Lee, Hing Yin Lai, Charlie Chung-Ping Chen
PODC
2010
ACM
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Optimal gradient clock synchronization in dynamic networks
We study the problem of clock synchronization in highly dynamic networks, where communication links can appear or disappear at any time. The nodes in the network are equipped with...
Fabian Kuhn, Christoph Lenzen, Thomas Locher, Rote...
ASPDAC
2007
ACM
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Efficient BMC for Multi-Clock Systems with Clocked Specifications
- Current industry trends in system design -- multiple clocks, clocks with arbitrary frequency ratios, multi-phased clocks, gated clocks, and level-sensitive latches, combined with...
Malay K. Ganai, Aarti Gupta
ASPDAC
2007
ACM
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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 ...
SIGCOMM
1994
ACM
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Improved Algorithms for Synchronizing Computer Network Clocks
The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is widely deployed in the Internet to synchronize computer clocks to each other and to international standards via telephone modem, radio and satel...
David L. Mills
ICCAD
1993
IEEE
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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
DAC
1996
ACM
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Optimal Clock Skew Scheduling Tolerant to Process Variations
1- A methodology is presented in this paper for determining an optimal set of clock path delays for designing high performance VLSI/ULSI-based clock distribution networks. This met...
José Luis Neves, Eby G. Friedman
DAC
1997
ACM
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More Practical Bounded-Skew Clock Routing
: Academic clock routing research results has often had limited impact on industry practice, since such practical considerations as hierarchical buffering, rise-time and overshoot ...
Andrew B. Kahng, Chung-Wen Albert Tsao
ICCAD
1997
IEEE
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A hierarchical decomposition methodology for multistage clock circuits
† This paper describes a novel methodology to automate the design of the interconnect distribution for multistage clock circuits. We introduce two key ideas. First, a hierarchica...
Gary Ellis, Lawrence T. Pileggi, Rob A. Rutenbar
EDCC
1999
Springer
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A Fault Tolerant Clock Synchronization Algorithm for Systems with Low-Precision Oscillators
In this paper we present a new fault tolerant clock synchronization algorithm called the Fault Tolerant Daisy Chain algorithm. It is intended for internal clock synchronization of...
Henrik Lönn