アドホックネットワーク，ユビキタス・ネットワーク

同期現象（シンクロニゼーション）の解明，同期システムへの応用

ネットワークダイナミクス, 粘菌の分散知能の研究

Synchronizability of Distributed Clock Oscillators

Hisa-Aki Tanaka, Akio Hasegawa, Hiroyuki Mizuno, and Tetsuro Endoh
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems - I: Fundamental Theory and Applications, 2002.

Keyword

Clock distribution network, impulse sensitive function, phase equation, ring oscillator, synchronization, voltage-controlled oscillator.

Abstract

We analyze the synchronizability of synchronous distributed oscillators (SDOs) [3], a novel clocking scheme for microprocessors. A computer-aided perturbation analysis is developed for such systems, where analytically tractable equations of the clock phases are reduced from experimental data reflecting all circuit details. Using this reduction, a theory is constructed to explain the underlying mechanism of the synchronization in SDOs. It systematically explains the observed phenomena, the existence and stability of the (mutually) synchronized states, and the transition from the in-phase synchronized state to the out-of-phase (but still synchronized) state. Furthermore, the present theory of phase reduction provides a new design principle of coupled oscillators based on “the equation”; a precise delay control (less than the gate delay) circuit can be designed in a simple and general form.

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