Advanced Micro Devices Corporation

Don Walters

Scott C Johnson

Jerry D Moench

Ravinder Reddy Rachala

Various embodiments of methods and systems for providing virtual leaf driver nodes in a clock tree to drive a clock grid of an integrated circuit are disclosed. An integrated circuit may include a large number of clocked elements such as registers, flip-flops, etc. whose operation is synchronized by one or more clocks. For example, an operation performed by circuitry on one side of the die may need to occur at precisely the same time as another operation performed by circuitry on the other side of the die. In order to assure synchronicity of these events, a clock grid may be provided in the IC that is driven by virtual leaf driver nodes. The clock tree driving the clock grid may include a tier of leaf buffers. The output of a leaf buffer may be split, and the branches of the output connected to separate points on the clock grid.

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