• DocumentCode
    1745273
  • Title

    Minimizing process-induced skew using delay tuning

  • Author

    Nekili, M. ; Savaria, Y. ; Bois, G.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Concordia Univ., Montreal, Que., Canada
  • Volume
    4
  • fYear
    2001
  • fDate
    6-9 May 2001
  • Firstpage
    426
  • Abstract
    Tolerance to process-induced skew remains one of the major concerns in large-area and high-speed clock distribution networks. Indeed, despite the availability of some efficient exact-zero skew algorithms that can be applied during circuit design, the skew remains an important performance limiting factor after chip manufacturing. This paper presents techniques to minimize this kind of skew using delay tuning in buffered clock trees
  • Keywords
    circuit tuning; clocks; delays; high-speed integrated circuits; integrated circuit design; buffered clock trees; chip manufacturing; circuit design; delay tuning; high-speed clock distribution networks; large-area clock distribution networks; performance limiting factor; process-induced skew; Availability; Calibration; Capacitors; Circuit synthesis; Clocks; Delay; Integrated circuit interconnections; Laser tuning; Manufacturing; Testing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Circuits and Systems, 2001. ISCAS 2001. The 2001 IEEE International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Sydney, NSW
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-6685-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISCAS.2001.922264
  • Filename
    922264