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DAC
2000
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Impact of interconnect variations on the clock skew of a gigahertz microprocessor
Due to the large die sizes and tight relative clock skew margins, the impact of interconnect manufacturing variations on the clock skew in today's gigahertz microprocessors c...
Ying Liu, Sani R. Nassif, Lawrence T. Pileggi, And...
ICCAD
2003
IEEE
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15 years 6 months ago
Analytical Bound for Unwanted Clock Skew due to Wire Width Variation
Under modern VLSI technology, process variations greatly affect circuit performance, especially clock skew which is very timing sensitive. Unwanted skew due to process variation f...
Anand Rajaram, Bing Lu, Wei Guo, Rabi N. Mahapatra...
DATE
2009
IEEE
122views Hardware» more  DATE 2009»
15 years 4 months ago
Analysis and optimization of NBTI induced clock skew in gated clock trees
NBTI (Negative Bias Temperature Instability) has emerged as the dominant PMOS device failure mechanism for sub100nm VLSI designs. There is little research to quantify its impact o...
Ashutosh Chakraborty, Gokul Ganesan, Anand Rajaram...
ASPDAC
2008
ACM
129views Hardware» more  ASPDAC 2008»
14 years 11 months ago
Clock tree synthesis with data-path sensitivity matching
This paper investigates methods for minimizing the impact of process variation on clock skew using buffer and wire sizing. While most papers on clock trees ignore data-path circuit...
Matthew R. Guthaus, Dennis Sylvester, Richard B. B...
DAC
2004
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Reducing clock skew variability via cross links
Increasingly significant variational effects present a great challenge for delivering desired clock skew reliably. Non-tree clock network has been recognized as a promising approac...
Anand Rajaram, Jiang Hu, Rabi N. Mahapatra