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Q761DesignNVIDIAASIC interview problem

Trade ICG granularity for fanout and timing

TechniquesDesignPhysical DesignClock treeICG
DifficultyMedium
TopicLow-Power Design
LanguageSystemVerilog
Format4 choices
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Problem

What is the main tradeoff when one shared ICG is moved upstream to gate many flops?

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Answer choices (4)