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Design Methodology of Reliable Clock Networks Based on Adjustable Delay Buffers
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- Authors
- Advisor
- 김태환
- Major
- 전기·컴퓨터공학부
- Issue Date
- 2012-02
- Publisher
- 서울대학교 대학원
- Abstract
- Clock skew constraint satisfaction is one of the most important tasks in the clock
network design, especially for the tree based clock structure. However, satisfying
clock skew constraint is almost impossible by using traditional clock tree synthesis
techniques when the clock tree is designed under multiple power mode environments.
Recently, it is shown that using adjustable delay buffer (ADB) whose delay can be
tuned dynamically can be an alternative solution to the clock skew optimization problem
under multiple power mode environments. However, existing works on allocating
ADBs under multi-voltage mode designs is not optimal and cannot be directly applied
to real implementation because almost all researches are based on ideal assumption of
ADB. This work provides a complete solution to the problem of clock skew minimization
using ADBs under multiple power modes, supporting its practical applicability.
We first propose a linear-time optimal algorithm that simultaneously solves the problems
of computing (1) the minimum number of ADBs to be used, (2) the location at
which each ADB is to be placed, and (3) the delay value of each ADB to be assigned
to each power mode. Then, we propose a heuristic algorithm and new ADB structure
to resolve the timing violations possibly incurred due to the application of the ADB
allocation solution derived under the ideal assumption. Through a set of diverse and
thorough experiments, we are able to confirm that the number of ADBs can be reduced
by 9.27% on average under ideal assumptions and the violations induced by the ideal
assumptions can be perfectly removed with small overhead by using our proposed
ADB structure and algorithm.
- Language
- eng
- URI
- https://hdl.handle.net/10371/156597
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