Fanout-Induced Delay
fanout => higher loads => larger delay
Measure delay with fanout...
- bufns: dedicated buffers
- ideal case, delay=1
- delay independent of fanout
- buf: shared buffer
- drives triple load
- delay doubles
- bufp: pass-T input
- fanout limited to internal pass-T nodes
- low delay increase
- bufm: mux input
- fanout limited to internal mux nodes
- very low delay increase
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Normalized Delay.
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