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Record W2033685698 · doi:10.1145/1117201.1117216

FPGA clock network architecture

2006· article· en· W2033685698 on OpenAlexaff
Julien Lamoureux, Steven J. E. Wilton

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicLow-power high-performance VLSI design
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsClock networkDigital clock managerCPU multiplierField-programmable gate arrayClock gatingComputer scienceFlexibility (engineering)Clock domain crossingClock rateEmbedded systemClock skewSynchronous circuitClock signalTelecommunications

Abstract

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This paper examines the tradeoffs between flexibility, area, and power dissipation of programmable clock networks for Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA's). The paper begins by describing a parameterized clock network model that describes a broad range of programmable clock network architectures. Specifically, the model supports architectures with multiple local and global clock domains and varying amounts of flexibility at various levels of the clock network. Using the model, the architectural parameters that control the flexibility of the clock network are varied to determine the cost of this flexibility in terms of area and power dissipation. From these experiments, the study finds that area and power costs are highest for networks with flexibility close to the logic blocks. Furthermore, it found that clock networks with local clock domains have little overhead and are significantly more efficient than clock networks without local clock domains for applications with multiple clocks.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.005
Threshold uncertainty score0.017

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.002
GPT teacher head0.152
Teacher spread0.149 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations41
Published2006
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