{"title":"Synchronization scheme for brick-based rotary oscillator arrays","authors":"Y. Teng, B. Taskin","doi":"10.1145/2206781.2206812","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a brick-based rotary oscillator array (ROA) synchronization scheme is proposed, which directs all the rotary traveling wave oscillators (RTWOs) in the ROA to rotate in a pre-determined direction. This synchronization scheme increases the speed of the ROA synchronization process by eliminating the repetitive start-up trials due to start-ups from incorrect points on the oscillatory array. Simulation results confirm the effectiveness of the ROA synchronization scheme. Furthermore, the synchronization scheme is applied to an ROA-based clock generation and distribution network designed for an ISPD 10 clock benchmark in order to demonstrate its application at a larger scale.","PeriodicalId":272619,"journal":{"name":"ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI","volume":"14 11","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2012-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"9","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2206781.2206812","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In this paper, a brick-based rotary oscillator array (ROA) synchronization scheme is proposed, which directs all the rotary traveling wave oscillators (RTWOs) in the ROA to rotate in a pre-determined direction. This synchronization scheme increases the speed of the ROA synchronization process by eliminating the repetitive start-up trials due to start-ups from incorrect points on the oscillatory array. Simulation results confirm the effectiveness of the ROA synchronization scheme. Furthermore, the synchronization scheme is applied to an ROA-based clock generation and distribution network designed for an ISPD 10 clock benchmark in order to demonstrate its application at a larger scale.