5th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED'04) Leveraging Delay Slack in Flip-Flop and Buffer Insertion for Power Reduction San Jose, California March 22-March 24 ISBN: 0-7695-2093-6
We show that the delay slack can be distributed optimally between flip-flops to reduce power in a pipelined interconnect, and such power reduction can be achieved by simultaneous flip-flop and buffer insertion satisfying latency and delay constraints specified at sinks. We develop a dynamic programming algorithm with effective pruning rules and pseudo polynomial time complexity with respect to the decimation and the length of a net. Experiments using a cluster of interconnect in a leading industrial high-performance design show that there exists plenty of useful slack for power reduction. Without jeopardizing the delay specification, as much as 17% of power can be saved for this cluster of interconnects.
Citation:
Lucanus Simonson, King Ho Tam, Nataraj Akkiraju, Mosur Mohan, Lei He, "Leveraging Delay Slack in Flip-Flop and Buffer Insertion for Power Reduction," isqed, pp.69-74, 5th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED'04), 2004 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||