Buffer reduction algorithm for mesh-based clock distribution
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...A buffer reduction method for meshbased clock distribution to achieve smaller clock network area was shown [8]....
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...In [1], the buffers are placed using a set-cover algorithm with a discrete buffer library....
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...A detailed study has been made on leaf level clock mesh synthesis in [1], [2] and [3]....
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...But this comes at the cost of increased power dissipation since mesh has increased wire capacitance [1]....
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...This increased skew (upto 30 ps) is still acceptable since tree based distribution have reported skew of 45-70 ps on the same ISPD2010 benchmarks under similar simulation conditions and variations ([8])....
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"Buffer reduction algorithm for mesh..." refers background or methods or result in this paper
...The IBD of [2] is applied to the same ISPD2010 benchmarks under the same simulation conditions as ours....
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...To ascertain the effectiveness of our algorithm, we compare our results with skew and power of [2] in Table IV and note that our buffer reduction algorithm can achieve 15 - 18% reduction in power at the cost of increased skew....
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...A detailed study has been made on leaf level clock mesh synthesis in [1], [2] and [3]....
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...To the best of our knowledge, the Iterative Buffer Deletion algorithm (IBD) presented in [2] is the only published work on buffer reduction in clock mesh....
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...ispd10 This work IBD of [2] % Pwr reduction Skew(ps) Pwr(mW) Skew(ps) Pwr(mW) cns06 21....
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...In [4], the authors observe that this SC power dissipation is a linear function of inter-buffer skew....
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