Power minimization by clock root gating

  • Authors:
  • Qi Wang;Sumit Roy

  • Affiliations:
  • Cadence Design Systems, Inc, San Jose, CA;Cadence Design Systems, Inc, San Jose, CA

  • Venue:
  • ASP-DAC '03 Proceedings of the 2003 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Clock root gating transformation targets power savings on the clock tree by inserting gating logic at the root of the clock. In this paper we propose an efficient graph-based algorithm to solve the root clock gating optimization problem. The algorithm is also tightly integrated with clock tree synthesis tool so that real power savings can be achieved after clock tree is generated. Experimental results on industrial circuits showed that significant power savings can be achieved.