Fourth International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design Minimizing Inter-Clock Coupling Jitter San Jose, California March 24-March 26 ISBN: 0-7695-1881-8
Crosstalk noise is a crucial factor affecting chip performance in deep submicron technologies. Among all possible crosstalk noise sources, clock is the most common aggressor as well as victim. Crosstalk on clock nets can increase clock jitter, which may degrade significantly the system performance. Besides, in modern chip designs, there is usually more than one clock net, and sometimes even tens of them. It is therefore imperative to design clock topologies to prevent possible crosstalk among them. In this paper, we address the inter-clock crosstalk. We propose algorithms to design clock topology and to perform routing minimizing the effective crosstalk. Our experimental results show a significant reduction of clock jitter compared to the conventional clock tree synthesis which does not take into account the inter-clock crosstalk effects.
Citation:
Ming-Fu Hsiao, Malgorzata Marek-Sadowska, Sao-Jie Chen, "Minimizing Inter-Clock Coupling Jitter," isqed, pp.333, Fourth International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, 2003 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||