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DFT
2006
IEEE
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15 years 1 months ago
Efficient and Robust Delay-Insensitive QCA (Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata) Design
The concept of clocking for QCA, referred to as the four-phase clocking, is widely used. However, inherited characteristics of QCA, such as the way to hold state, the way to synch...
Minsu Choi, Myungsu Choi, Zachary D. Patitz, Nohpi...
IPPS
2002
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
Overview of Hydra: A Concurrent Language for Synchronous Digital Circuit Design
Hydra is a computer hardware description language that integrates several kinds of software tool (simulation, netlist generation and timing analysis) within a single circuit speci...
John O'Donnell
DATE
1998
IEEE
76views Hardware» more  DATE 1998»
15 years 1 months ago
Gated Clock Routing Minimizing the Switched Capacitance
This paper presents a zero-skew gated clock routing technique for VLSI circuits. The gated clock tree has masking gates at the internal nodes of the clock tree, which are selectiv...
Jaewon Oh, Massoud Pedram
ASPDAC
2007
ACM
116views Hardware» more  ASPDAC 2007»
15 years 1 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 ...
DATE
2009
IEEE
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15 years 4 months ago
Register placement for high-performance circuits
—In modern sub-micron design, achieving low-skew clock distributions is facing challenges for high-performance circuits. Symmetric global clock distribution and clock tree synthe...
Mei-Fang Chiang, Takumi Okamoto, Takeshi Yoshimura