Title :
Low-Cost Dynamic Compensation Scheme for Local Clocks of Next Generation High Performance Microprocessors
Author :
Omaña, M. ; Metra, C. ; Mak, T.M. ; Tam, S.
Author_Institution :
DEIS, Univ. of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Abstract :
We propose a low cost scheme for the dynamic compensation in the field of undesired skew and duty cycle variations of local clocks of high performance microprocessors and high end ASICs. Compared to alternate approaches, our solution features lower power consumption, smaller compensation error, and a lower or comparable area overhead.
Keywords :
application specific integrated circuits; clocks; compensation; low-power electronics; microprocessor chips; duty cycle variation; high end ASIC; local clocks; low-cost dynamic compensation scheme; next generation high performance microprocessor; skew cycle variation; Application specific integrated circuits; Circuit faults; Clocks; Microprocessors; Power demand; Clock; clock compensation scheme; high performance microprocessors;
Journal_Title :
Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TVLSI.2010.2085021
