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, Jeff
11/07/12	NONE (Matt at ICCAD)
11/14/12	Ben, Riadul
11/21/12	Bin
11/28/12	Hany, Rafael
12/05/12	Elnaz, Nihan

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

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

Statistical static timing analysis: A survey

Statistical clock skew analysis considering intra-die process variations

Statistical analysis of clock skew variation in H-tree structure

Implementation:

The clock distribution of the POWER4 microprocessor

A 5GHz duty-cycle correcting clock distribution network for the POWER6 microprocessor

Multi-GHz clocking scheme for Intel Pentium 4 microprocessor

Myth busters: Microprocessor clocking is from mars, asic’s clocking is from venus?

Clocking design and analysis for a 600-MHz Alpha microprocessor

A 300-MHz 64-b quad-issue CMOS RISC microprocessor

A 200-MHz 64-b dual-issue CMOS microprocessor

The design and analysis of the clock distribution network for a 1.2GHz alpha microprocessor

Other:

Clock distribution networks in synchronous digital integrated circuits

Clock skew optimization

Post-processing of clock trees via wiresizing and buffering for robust design

Practical techniques to reduce skew and its variations in buffered clock networks

General framework for removal of clock network pessimism

Performance optimization of vlsi interconnect layout