Critical Delays in Clock Distribution Circuits.

As the distribution of clock signals between the nodes of a network became a critical operational requisite, the transmission delays have to be studied because they affect the accurate recovering of the time basis. In this work, the critical delay value is calculated considering simplifications compatible with practical situations. The main contribution is to consider the dissipative terms in the node equations, expressing critical delays, depending on the time constant of the dissipation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]