Semiconductor Engineering

Shallow Clock Tree Pre-Estimation for Designing Clock Tree Synthesizable Verilog RTLs (Kyungpook National University)

“Clock tree synthesis (CTS) is an important process in determining overall chip timing and power consumption. The CTS is also a time-consuming process for checking the clock tree. If the chip design ...
Electronic Design

Timing Decisions 102: Optimize Your Clock Tree

The importance of timing requirements and jitter budgets for FPGAs, ASICs, and SoCs. How to utilize the information portrayed in a clock tree to choose the most well-suited clock generator for your ...
Nature

Clock Distribution Networks and Optimization Techniques

Clock distribution networks are critical components in modern integrated circuits, ensuring that the timing signal reaches every element with minimal delay and skew. As device geometries shrink and ...
EDN

8-Output PCIe Gen1/2/3 Clock Buffer

The LMK00338 is an 8-output PCIe Gen1/Gen2/Gen3 fanout buffer intended for high-frequency, low-jitter clock/data distribution and level translation. The input clock can be selected from two universal ...
Semiconductor Engineering

The Vulnerability of Clock Trees to Asymmetric Aging

A new technical paper titled “The Impact of Asymmetric Transistor Aging on Clock Tree Design Considerations” was published by researchers at Israel Institute of Technology and The Hebrew University of ...
Electronic Design

High Level of Clock Tree Integration With ClockWorks™ Fusion

Micrel, Inc. announces ClockWorks Fusion, a revolutionary clock generation product family that integrates the crystal, frequency synthesizer and fan-out buffer to deliver the industry's highest level ...
EDN

AEROFLEX COLORADO SPRINGS ANNOUNCES PRODUCTION OF THEIR RadClockTM, A MONOLITHIC, PLL-BASED, HIGH-SPEED, MULTI-PHASE, CLOCK BUFFER

Aeroflex Colorado Springs, an Aeroflex Incorporated company, (NASDAQ:ARXX), announced today QML Q and V production of their RadClockTM PLL-based clock buffer designed for satellite applications.