Patent ID: 8112654

Claim:
A method of providing timing signals to a number of circuits, the method comprising: providing a plurality of interconnected nodes, each circuit being connected to a node, each node receiving a timing signal from one or more other nodes and transmitting a corresponding timing signal to at least one other node and/or a circuit(s) connected to the node, providing the timing signal to one of the nodes, at least one node receiving the timing signal from each of two or more nodes and not transmitting the corresponding timing signal to the at least one other node and/or a circuit(s) connected thereto, before the timing signal has been received from each of the two or more nodes, and positioning the nodes topologically in a number of dimensions defined by at least two non-parallel directions so that the node(s) adapted to receive the timing signal from a transmitting node are positioned further in at least one of the at least two non-parallel directions than the transmitting node, such that a timing skew is along the at least two non-parallel directions.