Abstract:
Clock gating is recognized as one of the most effective techniques to reduce the dynamic power consumption. Many research efforts have been paid to build activity-driven ...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
Clock gating is recognized as one of the most effective techniques to reduce the dynamic power consumption. Many research efforts have been paid to build activity-driven clock trees for low power designs. On the other hand, as the feature size continues to shrink, the on-chip-variation (OCV) effect has become a serious concern, especially for the clock skew of the top-level clock tree. Based on this observation, in this paper, we present the first work for the synthesis of OCV-aware top-level activity-driven clock trees. In our approach, the clock skew variation is considered during the top-level activity-driven clock tree synthesis. Our objective is to minimize the weighted sum of the worst timing slack and the power consumption. Compared with previous works, benchmark data consistently show that our approach can greatly increase the worst timing slack with a small overhead on the power consumption.
Date of Conference: 22-25 May 2016
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 11 August 2016
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Electronic ISSN: 2379-447X