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Clock Skew Analysis in Optical Clock Distribution Network

The optical clock distribution has been considered to alleviate limitations due to metallic interconnections for future generation of VLSI. It can be interesting only, if it is able to provide some substantial improvement of IC features. This paper studies the effects of the VLSI structure thermal gradients on the clock skew in optical clock distribution network CDN.

F. Gaffiot | G. Tosik | Z. Lisik | F. Abramowicz

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