Synthesis of timing paths with delays adaptable to integrated circuit variability

This project proposes to substitute the Clock of a circuit for a Ring Oscillator. This Ring Oscillator is designed to be susceptible to variability in the same way than the rest of the system, allowing to drastically reduce variability guard band margins at design stage.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Moreno Vega, Alberto|||0000-0001-8133-0068
Tipo de recurso: tesis de maestría
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/81051
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/81051
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Integrated circuits
variabilitat
camí crític
process corner
beam search
ring oscillator
rellotges adaptatius
llibreria de standard cells
Variability
critical path
adaptive clocks
standard cell library
Circuits integrats
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Descripción
Sumario:This project proposes to substitute the Clock of a circuit for a Ring Oscillator. This Ring Oscillator is designed to be susceptible to variability in the same way than the rest of the system, allowing to drastically reduce variability guard band margins at design stage.