We propose a hierarchical interconnection network with two-phase bufferless resonant clock distribution, which mixes the advantages of mesh and tree architectures.The problems of skew reduction and variation-tolerance...We propose a hierarchical interconnection network with two-phase bufferless resonant clock distribution, which mixes the advantages of mesh and tree architectures.The problems of skew reduction and variation-tolerance in the mixed interconnection network are studied through a pipelined multiplier under a TSMC 65 nm standard CMOS process.The post-simulation results show that the hierarchical architecture reduces more than 75% and 65%of clock skew compared with pure mesh and pure H-tree networks,respectively.The maximum skew in the proposed clock distribution is less than 7 ps under imbalanced loading and PVT variations,which is no more than 1%of the clock cycle of about 760 ps.展开更多
基金Project supported by the National Science and Technology Major Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(No. 2009ZX01034-001-001-006)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.60906014)
文摘We propose a hierarchical interconnection network with two-phase bufferless resonant clock distribution, which mixes the advantages of mesh and tree architectures.The problems of skew reduction and variation-tolerance in the mixed interconnection network are studied through a pipelined multiplier under a TSMC 65 nm standard CMOS process.The post-simulation results show that the hierarchical architecture reduces more than 75% and 65%of clock skew compared with pure mesh and pure H-tree networks,respectively.The maximum skew in the proposed clock distribution is less than 7 ps under imbalanced loading and PVT variations,which is no more than 1%of the clock cycle of about 760 ps.
