{"title":"Low design overhead timing error correction scheme for elastic clock methodology","authors":"Sungju Ryu, Jongeun Koo, Jae-Joon Kim","doi":"10.1109/ISLPED.2017.8009203","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The elastic clock scheme is a robust design methodology to ensure timing closure under PVT variation using locally generated clocks and handshaking protocol. However, it still has a chance of timing errors due to delay mismatch between the data-path and delay replica. In this paper, we propose a low design overhead timing error correction scheme tailored to elastic clock. In the proposed scheme, a timing error can be corrected within a cycle using clock stretching. The proposed scheme shows 40.3× and 4.6× reduction in timing margin with 9.1% and 9.0% area overhead over the synchronous baseline and elastic clock design, respectively.","PeriodicalId":385714,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2017 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISLPED.2017.8009203","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The elastic clock scheme is a robust design methodology to ensure timing closure under PVT variation using locally generated clocks and handshaking protocol. However, it still has a chance of timing errors due to delay mismatch between the data-path and delay replica. In this paper, we propose a low design overhead timing error correction scheme tailored to elastic clock. In the proposed scheme, a timing error can be corrected within a cycle using clock stretching. The proposed scheme shows 40.3× and 4.6× reduction in timing margin with 9.1% and 9.0% area overhead over the synchronous baseline and elastic clock design, respectively.