Crosstalk-aware Domino Logic Synthesis

We propose a logic synthesis flow which utilizes the functionality of circuit to synthesize a domino-cell network which will have more wires crosstalk-immune to each other. For that purpose, techniques of output phase flipping and crosstalk-aware technology mapping are used. Meanwhile, metric to measure the crosstalk sensitivity of domino cells in synthesis level is proposed. Experimental results demonstrate that the crosstalk sensitivity of the synthesized domino-cell network is greatly reduced by 51% using our synthesis flow as compared with conventional methodology. Furthermore, after placement and routing are performed, the ratio of the number of crosstalk-immune wire pairs to the number of total wire pairs is about 25% using our methodology as compared to 9% using conventional techniques