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Low Cost Scheme for On-Line Clock Skew Compensation
Palm Springs, California May 01-May 05
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/VTS.2005.5223rd IEEE VLSI Test Symposium (VTS'05)
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Martin Omaña, University of Bologna
Daniele Rossi, University of Bologna
Cecilia Metra, University of Bologna
In this paper we propose a novel buffer scheme that is able to compensate undesired skews between clocks of a synchronous system in a negligible time upon skew occurrence, thus being suitable also for on-line clock-skew correction. Clock signals are aligned one with respect to the other, starting from a reference clock, and moving forward among physically adjacent clock signals, thus creating no problem of reference clock's routing. Our solution is also able to compensate clock duty-cycle variations, which have been shown very likely in case of faults, for instance bridgings, affecting the clock distribution network. Compared to alternate solutions, our proposed scheme enables significant reductions in area overhead and power consumption, and is suitable for on-line compensation. Therefore, it allows clock skew and duty-cycle fault tolerance, thus increasing process yield and system's reliability.
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Martin Omaña, Daniele Rossi, Cecilia Metra, "Low Cost Scheme for On-Line Clock Skew Compensation," vts, pp.90-95, 23rd IEEE VLSI Test Symposium (VTS'05), 2005
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