Tian, Haitong. / Chinese abstract is on unnumbered page. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 65-74). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i / Acknowledgement --- p.iii / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Motivations --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Our Contributions --- p.2 / Chapter 1.3 --- Organization of the Thesis --- p.3 / Chapter 2 --- Background Study --- p.4 / Chapter 2.1 --- Traditional Clock Routing Problem --- p.4 / Chapter 2.2 --- Tree-Based Clock Routing Algorithms --- p.5 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- Clock Routing Using H-tree --- p.5 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Method of Means and Medians(MMM) --- p.6 / Chapter 2.2.3 --- Geometric Matching Algorithm (GMA) --- p.8 / Chapter 2.2.4 --- Exact Zero-Skew Algorithm --- p.9 / Chapter 2.2.5 --- Deferred Merge Embedding (DME) --- p.10 / Chapter 2.2.6 --- Boundary Merging and Embedding (BME) Algorithm --- p.14 / Chapter 2.2.7 --- Planar Clock Routing Algorithm --- p.17 / Chapter 2.2.8 --- Useful-skew Tree Algorithm --- p.18 / Chapter 2.3 --- Non-Tree Clock Distribution Networks --- p.19 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- Grid (Mesh) Structure --- p.20 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- Spine Structure --- p.20 / Chapter 2.3.3 --- Hybrid Structure --- p.21 / Chapter 2.4 --- Post-grid Clock Routing Problem --- p.22 / Chapter 2.5 --- Limitations of the Previous Work --- p.24 / Chapter 3 --- Post-Grid Clock Routing Problem --- p.26 / Chapter 3.1 --- Introduction --- p.26 / Chapter 3.2 --- Problem Definition --- p.27 / Chapter 3.3 --- Our Approach --- p.30 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- Delay-driven Path Expansion Algorithm --- p.31 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- Pre-processing to Connect Critical ports --- p.34 / Chapter 3.3.3 --- Post-processing to Reduce Capacitance --- p.36 / Chapter 3.4 --- Experimental Results --- p.39 / Chapter 3.4.1 --- Experiment Setup --- p.39 / Chapter 3.4.2 --- Validations of the Delay and Slew Estimation --- p.39 / Chapter 3.4.3 --- Comparisons with the Tree Grow (TG) Approach --- p.41 / Chapter 3.4.4 --- Lowest Achievable Delays --- p.42 / Chapter 3.4.5 --- Simulation Results --- p.42 / Chapter 4 --- Non-tree Based Post-Grid Clock Routing Problem --- p.44 / Chapter 4.1 --- Introduction --- p.44 / Chapter 4.2 --- Handling Ports with Large Load Capacitances --- p.46 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- Problem Ports Identification --- p.47 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- Non-Tree Construction --- p.47 / Chapter 4.2.3 --- Wire Link Selection --- p.48 / Chapter 4.3 --- Path Expansion in Non-tree Algorithm --- p.51 / Chapter 4.4 --- Limitations of the Non-tree Algorithm --- p.51 / Chapter 4.5 --- Experimental Results --- p.51 / Chapter 4.5.1 --- Experiment Setup --- p.51 / Chapter 4.5.2 --- Validations of the Delay and Slew Estimation --- p.52 / Chapter 4.5.3 --- Lowest Achievable Delays --- p.53 / Chapter 4.5.4 --- Results on New Benchmarks --- p.53 / Chapter 4.5.5 --- Simulation Results --- p.55 / Chapter 5 --- Efficient Partitioning-based Extension --- p.57 / Chapter 5.1 --- Introduction --- p.57 / Chapter 5.2 --- Partition-based Extension --- p.58 / Chapter 5.3 --- Experimental Results --- p.61 / Chapter 5.3.1 --- Experiment Setup --- p.61 / Chapter 5.3.2 --- Running Time Improvement with Partitioning Technique --- p.61 / Chapter 6 --- Conclusion --- p.63 / Bibliography --- p.65
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:cuhk.edu.hk/oai:cuhk-dr:cuhk_327550 |
| Date | January 2011 |
| Contributors | Tian, Haitong., Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School. Division of Computer Science and Engineering. |
| Source Sets | The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Language | English, Chinese |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, bibliography |
| Format | print, x, 74 p. : ill. ; 30 cm. |
| Rights | Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International” License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) |
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