Title
Zero clock skew synchronization with rotary clocking technology
Abstract
Rotary clocking is a resonant clocking technology that provides a low-power, low-jitter clock signal with controllable skew. Due to the "rotary" traveling of the clock signal on the ring interconnect, each location on the rotary ring network leads to a different clock phase. Consequently, one of the features of the rotary clocking technology is the inherent non-zero clock skew operation. In this paper, it is shown that zero clock skew circuits can also be efficiently implemented with rotary clock synchronization. Design automation experiments are performed to demonstrate that the zero clock skew operation can be achieved with minimal change in the performance of rotary clock operation. In particular, a marginal plusmn1.5% change in the tapping wirelength is reported in experiments on R1-R5 benchmark circuits.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/ISQED.2009.4810360
ISQED
Keywords
Field
DocType
zero clock skew synchronization,inherent non-zero clock skew,rotary clocking,different clock phase,low-jitter clock signal,rotary clocking technology,zero clock skew circuit,rotary clock synchronization,zero clock skew operation,rotary clock operation,clock signal,power transmission lines,synchronisation,design automation,ring network,registers,clock skew,synchronization,benchmark testing,signal processing,resonance,jitter,integrated circuit design,clock synchronization
Clock signal,Timing failure,Clock gating,Computer science,Clock domain crossing,Real-time computing,Electronic engineering,Clock skew,Digital clock manager,CPU multiplier,Clock angle problem
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.52
7
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Vinayak Honkote1284.84
Baris Taskin222740.82