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Navigating Register Placement for Low Power Clock Network Design Yongqiang LU Chin-Ngai SZE Xianlong HONG Qiang ZHOU Yici CAI Liang HUANG Jiang HU Publication IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences Vol.E88-A No.12 pp.3405-3411 Publication Date: 2005/12/01 Online ISSN: DOI: 10.1093/ietfec/e88-a.12.3405 Print ISSN: 0916-8508 Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on VLSI Design and CAD Algorithms) Category: Floorplan and Placement Keyword: clock network, standard cell, quadratic placement, prescribed skew, Full Text: PDF(528KB)>>
Summary: With VLSI design development, the increasingly severe power problem requests to minimize clock routing wirelength so that both power consumption and power supply noise can be alleviated. In contrast to most of traditional works that handle this problem only in clock routing, we propose to navigate standard cell register placement to locations that enable further less clock routing wirelength and power. To minimize adverse impacts to conventional cell placement goals such as signal net wirelength and critical path delay, the register placement is carried out in the context of a quadratic placement. The proposed technique is particularly effective for the recently popular prescribed skew clock routing. Experiments on benchmark circuits show encouraging results. | ||||||||||
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