IEICE Trans - Multi-Clock Cycle Paths and Clock Scheduling for Reducing the Area of Pipelined Circuits

Multi-Clock Cycle Paths and Clock Scheduling for Reducing the Area of Pipelined Circuits

Bakhtiar Affendi ROSDI
Atsushi TAKAHASHI

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences Vol.E89-A No.12 pp.3435-3442
Publication Date: 2006/12/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1337
DOI: 10.1093/ietfec/e89-a.12.3435
Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on VLSI Design and CAD Algorithms)
Category: System Level Design
Keyword:
pipelined circuits, multi-clock cycle paths, clock scheduling,

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Summary:
A new algorithm is proposed to reduce the number of intermediate registers of a pipelined circuit using a combination of multi-clock cycle paths and clock scheduling. The algorithm analyzes the pipelined circuit and determines the intermediate registers that can be removed. An efficient subsidiary algorithm is presented that computes the minimum feasible clock period of a circuit containing multi-clock cycle paths. Experiments with a pipelined adder and multiplier verify that the proposed algorithm can reduce the number of intermediate registers without degrading performance, even when delay variations exist.

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