Clock Distribution Networks play a vital role in performance and reliability of a system. However, temperature gradients observed in 3D ICs hamper the functionality of CDNs in terms of varying skew and propagation delay. This thesis presents two compensation techniques, Adaptive Voltage and Controllable Delay, to overcome these problems. The compensation methods are validated using a FPGA-based test vehicle. Modification in traditional buffer design are also presented and the performance as well as the area and power overhead of both the implementations is compared.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:GATECH/oai:smartech.gatech.edu:1853/51812 |
| Date | 22 May 2014 |
| Creators | Natu, Nitish Umesh |
| Contributors | Swaminathan, Madhavan |
| Publisher | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Source Sets | Georgia Tech Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
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