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Table of Contents

Topics

Interconnect

Multipoint nets

Styles of wiring trees

Sized Steiner tree

Buffer insertion in wiring trees

Van Ginneken algorithm

Delay calculation

Recursive delay calculation

Modifying the tree

Crosstalk

Coupling and crosstalk

Crosstalk analysis

Coupling situations

Layer-to-layer coupling

Methodological solutions

Ground wires

Crosstalk and signal routing

Crosstalk routing example

Assumptions

Bad routing

Good routing

Crosstalk analysis

Crosstalk analysis, cont’d.

Power optimization

Glitching example

Glitching example behavior

Adder chain glitching

Explanation

Signal probabilities

Delay-independent probabilities

Delay-dependent probabilities

Power estimation tools

Factorization for low power

Factorization techniques

Layout for low power

Author: Wayne Wolf

Email: wolf@princeton.edu

Home Page: http://www.ee.princeton.edu/~wolf/vlsi-book

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(c) 2002 Prentice Hall PTR

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