Presentation 2017-03-02
MILP Approach to Skew-Aware High Level Synthesis
Kai Shimura, Mineo Kaneko,
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Abstract(in English) Intentional clock skew is known as one of the promising techniques for enhancing the circuit speed. However, when we try to apply the intentional skew to a datapath circuit for some specific application, the improvement of the operation speed achieved by the intentional skew depends on the operation schedule and the resource binding. Considering the need for skew aware high level synthesis, in this paper, we propose unified Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) formulation which encompasses operation scheduling, resource binding and skew scheduling. Our formulation also includes several unique features such as variable cycle-length execution for operations, binding-dependent multiplexer belong, hold timing constraint considering exactly its binding-dependent activation condition, etc.
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Keyword(in English) clock skew-aware adjustment / high-level synthesis / multiplexer / Mixed Integer Linear Programming
Paper # VLD2016-120
Date of Issue 2017-02-22 (VLD)

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Committee VLD
Conference Date 2017/3/1(3days)
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Place (in English) Okinawa Seinen Kaikan
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Chair Takashi Takenana(NEC)
Vice Chair Hiroyuki Ochi(Ritsumeikan Univ.)
Secretary Hiroyuki Ochi(Fujitsu Labs.)
Assistant Parizy Matthieu(Fujitsu Labs.)

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Registration To Technical Committee on VLSI Design Technologies
Language JPN
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Title (in English) MILP Approach to Skew-Aware High Level Synthesis
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) clock skew-aware adjustment
Keyword(2) high-level synthesis
Keyword(3) multiplexer
Keyword(4) Mixed Integer Linear Programming
1st Author's Name Kai Shimura
1st Author's Affiliation Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(JAIST)
2nd Author's Name Mineo Kaneko
2nd Author's Affiliation Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(JAIST)
Date 2017-03-02
Paper # VLD2016-120
Volume (vol) vol.116
Number (no) VLD-478
Page pp.pp.97-102(VLD),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2017-02-22 (VLD)