Synthesis of optimal clocking schemes

  • Authors:
  • Nohbyung Park;Alice Parker

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical Engneering-Systems, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California;Department of Electrical Engneering-Systems, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California

  • Venue:
  • DAC '85 Proceedings of the 22nd ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference
  • Year:
  • 1985

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Abstract

Clocking scheme synthesis includes the partitioning of functions into time steps, the number of clock phases, the length of each phase, (i.e. how to pipeline) and the assignment of functions to clock phases; each of these choices affects performance. Some important problems of clocking scheme synthesis are examined. Two efficient and powerful algorithms which synthesize near optimal clocking schemes have been programmed. These algorithms are applied to synthesis and/or performance evaluation of a design in progress. Optimizing the speed of a previously designed system is also considered.