Digital System Clocking: High-Performance and Low-Power Aspects [Hardcover]

Provides the only up-to-date source on the most recent advances in this often complex and fascinating topic.

• The only book to be entirely devoted to clocking
• Clocking has become one of the most important topics in the field of digital system design
• A must have book for advanced circuit engineers

Preface xiii

Chapter 1 Introduction 1

Chapter 2 Theory of Clocked Storage Elements 27

Chapter 3 Timing and Energy Parameters 47

Chapter 4 Pipelining and Timing Analysis 63

Chapter 5 High-Performance System Issues 83

Chapter 6 Low-Energy System Issues 105

Chapter 7 Simulation Techniques 125

Chapter 8 State-of-the-Art Clocked Storage Elements in CMOS Technology 155

Chapter 9 Microprocesor Examples 189

References 233

Index 241

VOJIN G. OKLOBDZIJA received his PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has been a consultant for major computer and electronics companies in the fields of high-performance systems, low-power design, and fast data-path implementations with the emphasis on multi-media applications and has published extensively on the subjects of system design and computer engineering. Dr. Oklobdzija has worked at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center where he did pioneering work on RISC architecture and machine development starting with the IBM 801. Currently, he is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he directs the Advanced Computer Systems Engineering Laboratory (ACSEL).

VLADIMIR M. STOJANOVIC is currently pursuing his PhD degree as a member of the VLSI research group, Electrical Engineering Department, Stanford University. He obtained MSEE degree from StanfordlsM