International Journal of Engineering and Technology

Buffer insertion is a mechanism widely used to increase the performance of VLSI digital circuits. Buffer insertion has a strong impact on reliability in terms of delay and power dissipation of synchronous systems, since the clock distribution system requires reduced or controlled clock skew, being the buffer insertion and buffer sizing becomes an important aspect. Buffer insertion has also been used to reduce the noise generation, especially in heavy loaded nets, since the inclusion of buffer helps to desynchronize signal transitions.