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Clock Tree Synthesis Through Narrow Corridors

dfick

 Hi,

 I'm running clock tree synthesis on a large memory-like array structure where there are narrow corridors between some of the rows/columns. EDI CTS is having a hard time and is creating many buffers in the middle of the design, with huge congestion. Is there anything in particular that I should be looking at for this scenario?

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  •  The working solution is to insert explicit buffers in the clock tree in the netlist. When CTS is called, it creates a subtree for each buffer that is in the tree already. By inserting a buffer for each corridor (that drives the cells in the corridor), CTS was able to run quickly with a good result.

     Full disclosure: I had a sub-module for each corridor already, and a fence for that submodule which kept its cells in that corridor. I added the clock buffer to the input of the sub-modules.

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  •  The working solution is to insert explicit buffers in the clock tree in the netlist. When CTS is called, it creates a subtree for each buffer that is in the tree already. By inserting a buffer for each corridor (that drives the cells in the corridor), CTS was able to run quickly with a good result.

     Full disclosure: I had a sub-module for each corridor already, and a fence for that submodule which kept its cells in that corridor. I added the clock buffer to the input of the sub-modules.

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