FinFET-based low-swing clocking

C Sitik, E Salman, L Filippini, SJ Yoon… - ACM Journal on Emerging …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
A low-swing clocking methodology is introduced to achieve low-power operation at 20nm
FinFET technology. Low-swing clock trees are used in existing methodologies in order to …

Timing characterization of clock buffers for clock tree synthesis

C Sitik, S Lerner, B Taskin - 2014 IEEE 32nd International …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It is formidable to embed iterative simulations into the clock tree synthesis process to verify
the skew and slew constraints. Instead, accurate and simple timing models for clock buffers …

Non-Uniform Clock Mesh Synthesis with Clock Gating and Register Clustering

WK Cheng, JH Hung, YH Chiu - IEICE Transactions on …, 2016 - search.ieice.org
As the increasing complexity of chip design, reducing both power consumption and clock
skew becomes a crucial research topic in clock network synthesis. Among various clock …

DLWUC: Distance and Load Weight Updated Clustering-Based Clock Distribution for SOC Architecture

A Sridevi, V Lakshmiprabha - Tehnički vjesnik, 2018 - hrcak.srce.hr
Sažetak High-clock skew variations and degradation of driving ability of buffers lead to an
additional power dissipation in Clock Distribution Network (CDN) that increases the …

[BOOK][B] Design and automation of voltage-scaled clock networks

AC Sitik - 2015 - search.proquest.com
In this dissertation, a vital step of VLSI physical design flow, synthesis of clock distribution
networks, is investigated. Clock network synthesis (CNS) involves large and complex …