A specified delay accomplishing clock router using multiple layers

  • Authors:
  • Mitsuho Seki;Kenji Inoue;Kazuo Kato;Kouki Tsurusaki;Shin'ichi Fukasawa;Hitoshi Sasaki;Mutsuhito Aizawa

  • Affiliations:
  • Hitachi Research Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd.;Hitachi Research Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd.;Semiconductor Dept., Hitachi Ltd.;Semiconductor Dept., Hitachi Ltd.;Semiconductor Dept., Hitachi Ltd.;Semiconductor Dept., Hitachi Ltd.;Semiconductor Dept., Hitachi Ltd.

  • Venue:
  • ICCAD '94 Proceedings of the 1994 IEEE/ACM international conference on Computer-aided design
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

Clock routing to minimize the clock skew is very necessary to make high performance LSIs. Our clock routing method: (1) realizes the specified delay to each input terminal and provides a zero skew; (2) uses multiple routing layers for pin-to-pin routing; and (3) considers the delay arising from the resistance of a through-hole. Experimental results show that the delay is within 1% error compared to the specified delay and the skew can be controlled within pico second order.