280G F12

This quarter, we will put a focus on resonant and non-traditional clocking. We will have two presenters each day -- about 30-40 min each. Please select papers on either distributed/monolithic LC, rotary clocking, or standing wave clocking or similar non-traditional clocking papers.

Date	Presenter	Topic/Paper
10/03/12	Raj,Blake,Seokjoong	VLSI-SOC Dry Run ** Will need to start at 10:30am sharp
10/10/12	NONE (VLSI-SoC)
10/17/12	NONE (Matt at NSF)
10/24/12	Matt	How to review papers, Read the clock survey I wrote
10/31/12	Raj	Standing Wave Clocking http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?tp=&arnumber=280806&contentType=Journals+%26+Magazines&searchField%3DSearch_All%26queryText%3Dsalphasic+clock http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?tp=&arnumber=1219105&contentType=Conference+Publications&searchField%3DSearch_All%26queryText%3D10ghz+global+clock
11/07/12	NONE (Matt at ICCAD)
11/14/12	Riadul
11/21/12	Ben
11/28/12	Bin
12/05/12	Hany

Date	Presenter	Topic/Paper
/13	Rafael
/13	Elnaz
/13	Jeff
/13	Nihan
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Resonant Papers:

Uniform-phase uniform-amplitude resonant-load global clock distributions

Resonant clocking using distributed parasitic capacitance,

Jitter Characteristic in Charge Recovery Resonant Clock Distribution,

Design of resonant global clock distributions

Resonant-Clock Latch-Based Design

Resonant Clock Design for a Power-Efficient High-Volume x86-64 Microprocessor

A. Ishii, et al., “A Resonant Clock 200MHz ARM926EJ-STM Microcontroller,” European Solid-State Circuits Conf., pp. 356-359, 2009.

WOOD, J., EDWARDS, T. C., AND LIPA, S. 2001. Rotary traveling-wave oscillator arrays: A new clock tech- nology. Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC) 36, 11, 1654–1664.

Custom Rotary Clock Router

TASKIN, B., DEMAIO, J., FARELL, O., HAZELTINE, M., AND KETNER, R. 2009. [http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1529266 Custom topology rotary clock router with tree subnetworks]. Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES) 14, 3.

These two would go together: GUTHAUS, M. R. 2011. Distributed LC resonant clock tree synthesis. In International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS). 1215–1218. && CONDLEY, W., HU, X., AND GUTHAUS, M. 2011. A methodology for local resonant clock synthesis using lc-assisted local clock buffers. In International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD). 503–506.

HU, X. AND GUTHAUS, M. 2012. Distributed LC resonant clock grid synthesis. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (TCAS-I).

HU, X., CONDLEY, W., AND GUTHAUS, M. 2012. Library-aware resonant clock synthesis. In Design Automa- tion Conference (DAC).

ROSENFELD, J. AND FRIEDMAN, E. 2006. Design methodology for global resonant h-tree clock distribution networks. International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS). **there is a journal version of this too**

CHAN, S., RESTLE, P., SHEPARD, K., JAMES, N., AND FRANCH, R. 2004. A 4.6GHz resonant global clock distribution network. International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 342 – 343.

CHAN, S. C., SHEPARD, K. L., AND RESTLE, P. J. 2003. Design of resonant global clock distributions. International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD).

YU, Z. AND LIU, X. 2009. Implementing multiphase resonant clocking on a finite-impulse response filter. IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems 17, 11, 1593 – 1601.

The following are not resonant papers:

Variability:

The physical and electrical effects of metal-fill patterning practices for oxide chemical-mechanical polishing processes

Efficient coupled noise estimation for on-chip interconnects

Practical clock tree robustness signoff metrics

Process variation aware clock tree routing

A quadratic programming approach to clock skew scheduling for reduced sensitivity to process parameter variations

SSTA:

Statistical timing analysis considering spatial correlations using a single PERT-like traversal

Statistical timing analysis using bounds and selective enumeration

First-order incremental block-based statistical timing analysis

Statistical timing analysis: From basic principles to state of the art