Name
Title | ||
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Demonstration Of Speed Enhancements On An Industrial Circuit Through Application Of Non-Zero Clock Skew Scheduling |
Abstract | ||
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A demonstration of the application of non-zero clock skew scheduling to enhance the speed characteristics of several functional unit blocks in a high performance processor is presented. It is shown that non-zero clock skew scheduling can improve circuit performance while relaxing the strict timing constraints of the critical data paths within a high speed system. A software tool implementing a non-zero clock skew scheduling algorithm is described together with a methodology that generates the required clock signal delays by replacing clock buffers from predesigned cell libraries. Timing margin improvements of up to 18% are achieved through the application of non-zero clock skew scheduling in certain functional blocks of an industrial high performance microprocessor. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2001 | 10.1109/ICECS.2001.957650 | ICECS 2001: 8TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ELECTRONICS, CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS, VOLS I-III, CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS |
Keywords | DocType | Citations |
functional unit,job shop scheduling,scheduling algorithm,clock skew,signal generators | Conference | 3 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.47 | 7 | 6 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimitrios Velenis | 1 | 116 | 13.77 |
| Kevin T. Tang | 2 | 227 | 12.68 |
| Ivan S. Kourtev | 3 | 56 | 7.96 |
| Victor Adler | 4 | 3 | 0.47 |
| Franklin Baez | 5 | 152 | 25.02 |
| Eby G. Friedman | 6 | 2081 | 248.81 |