Semiconductor Engineering

Shallow Clock Tree Pre-Estimation for Designing Clock Tree Synthesizable Verilog RTLs (Kyungpook National University)

“Clock tree synthesis (CTS) is an important process in determining overall chip timing and power consumption. The CTS is also a time-consuming process for checking the clock tree. If the chip design ...
Electronic Design

Power And Thermal Analysis Are Best Done Together

Advanced power-reduction techniques, such as multi-VDD architectures and power-aware clock tree synthesis (CTS), allow designers to implement large, complex SoCs that consume less power. Leakage power ...
Nature

Clock Distribution Networks and Optimization Techniques

Clock distribution networks are critical components in modern integrated circuits, ensuring that the timing signal reaches every element with minimal delay and skew. As device geometries shrink and ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Placement And CTS Techniques For High-Performance Computing Designs

This paper discusses the challenges of designing high-performance computing (HPC) integrated circuits (ICs) to achieve maximum performance. The design process for HPC ICs has become more complex with ...
EDN

Mentor Graphics Unveils Advanced Low Power Features in its Olympus-SoC Place-and-Route Platform

WILSONVILLE, Ore., April 6, 2009 – Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced immediate availability of the Olympus-SoC platform with new features for low power IC implementation. The ...