Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference 1999 (ASP-DAC'99)
Clock Period Minimization of Semi-Synchronous Circuits by Gate-Level Delay Insertion
Wanchai, Hong Kong
January 18-January 21
ISBN: 0-7803-5012-X
A semi-synchronous circuit is a circuit in which every register is ticked by a clock periodically, but not necessarily simultaneously. A feature of semi-synchronous circuits is that the minimum delay between registers may be critical with respect to the clock period of the circuit. In this paper, we discuss a delay insertion method which makes such a semi-synchronous circuit faster. The maximum delay-to-register ratio of the cycles on the circuit gives a lower bound of the clock period. We show that this bound is achieved in the semi-synchronous framework by the proposed gate-level delay insertion method on the assumption that the delay of each element on the circuit is unique.
Citation:
Tomoyuki Yoda, Atsushi Takahashi, Yoji Kajitani, "Clock Period Minimization of Semi-Synchronous Circuits by Gate-Level Delay Insertion," asp-dac, pp.125, Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference 1999 (ASP-DAC'99), 1999