Along with technology scaling down and higher operating speeds of CMOS VLSI circuits, the leakage power is getting enhanced. The low leakage FFs are designed using sleep transistors and simulated in tanner design environment using 90 nm and 45n tech...
Book 2015, Top-Down Digital VLSI Design Chapter Case Study 10.3.1 Timing Characteristics of Synchronous Circuits In synchronous circuits, the clock signal provides a common time reference for all of the sequential elements, orchestrating the flow of the data signals within a circuit [312]. A numb...
This is the obvious overview, however, we also need a RTC (real time clock) to keep track of time using a backup battery, just in case the power goes out. Note that with my collection of supplies, budget, and skills, I've decided to use a VS1033D decoder IC from VLSI Solutions, ...
ALINT™from Aldec offers the ability to perform CDC design rule checks in addition to the existing defined rule plug-ins such as STARC, DO-254 and RMM. This enables one to complete an exhaustive Design Rule Check (DRC) on an RTL design, catching issues even before getting to the verifica...
Clock generation and frequency synthesis systems have played a critical role in modern communication system design. As data rate increases, low-noise and low-power clock/frequency generation is getting more important than ever for high-performance digital communication systems. Timing uncertainty directly...
Clock skewing strategy to reduce dynamic power and eliminate hold-time violations in synchronous digital VLSI designs United States Patent 10551869 Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to digital synchronous circuits that introduce clock skew without requiring clock buffers in a clock network. In ...
This application teaches that more accurate measurements of clock skew can be had by providing a clock monitor pin directly connected to the clock bus internal to the VLSI chip.
It is planned to evaluate these alternative clock concepts in terms of area, power, design effort, frequency resolution and portability. References [1] Muttersbach, Jens "Globally-Asynchronous Locally-Synchronous Architectures for VLSI Systems", Diss. ETH Zurich No. 14155, 2001 [2] Hsu, Terng-...
Clock distribution network (CDN) synthesis is one of the most fundamental CAD problems, and with the ever increasing performance demands of today's VLSI chips, this problem is getting even more difficult. Moreover, as one of the largest and fastest switching nets in the design, the CDN has ...
Clock distribution network (CDN) synthesis is one of the most fundamental CAD problems, and with the ever increasing performance demands of today's VLSI chips, this problem is getting even more difficult. Moreover, as one of the largest and fastest switching nets in the design, the CDN has ...