A Complete Framework of Simultaneous Functional Unit and Register Binding with Skew Scheduling

Mineo Kaneko
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology


Abstract

Intentional skew is known to be useful for improving clock frequency and/or tolerance to delay variations. This paper proposes a complete framework for treating skew schedule in the high level datapath synthesis. Major contributions include (1) the incorporation of timing issue on multiplexer-control into the skew scheduling problem (previously, only timing issue on register-control has been discussed, but it is incomplete for a datapath circuit which is controlled by control-signals to registers and multiplexers), and (2) a complete MILP (Mixed Integer Linear Programming) formulation of simultaneous functional unit (FU) binding and register incorporating with skew scheduling. Experimental examples demonstrate the correctness and the effectiveness of our framework.