A Scalable ODC-Based Algorithm for RTL Insertion of Gated Clocks

  • Authors:
  • Pietro Babighian;Luca Benini;Enrico Macii

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

This paper describes a new automatic clock-gating extraction working at the RT-level. The key features of our approach are: (i) Seamless merging with existing industrial design flows and commercial tools; (ii) High scalability to deal with large circuits; (iii) Improved quality of results with respect to available commercial tools; (iv) Smaller and well-controled overhead in speed and area. Experimental results, on a set of industrial RTL designs, demonstrate the viability and practical impact of our approach.