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MICRO
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2006
IEEE
Although processor design verification consumes ever-increasing resources, many design defects still slip into production silicon. In a few cases, such bugs have caused expensive...
MICRO
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
Parameter variation in integrated circuits causes sections of a chip to be slower than others. If, to prevent any resulting timing errors, we design processors for worst-case para...
LCTRTS
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2010
Springer
Continuous technology scaling has brought us to a point, where transistors have become extremely susceptible to cosmic radiation strikes, or soft errors. Inside the processor, cac...
TCAD
2008
13 years 5 months ago
2008
Functional correctness is a vital attribute of any hardware design. Unfortunately, due to extremely complex architectures, widespread components, such as microprocessors, are often...
DSN
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
As semiconductor technology scales, reliability is becoming an increasingly crucial challenge in microprocessor design. The rSRAM and voltage scaling are two promising circuit-lev...