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MICRO
2010
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
2010
IEEE
Soft error reliability is increasingly becoming a first-order design concern for microprocessors, as a result of higher transistor counts, shrinking device geometries and lowering ...
DATE
2005
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2005
IEEE
Functional verification of microprocessors is one of the most complex and expensive tasks in the current system-on-chip design process. A significant bottleneck in the validatio...
TCAD
2008
13 years 5 months ago
2008
Abstract--Thermal issues are fast becoming major design constraints in high-performance systems. Temperature variations adversely affect system reliability and prompt worst-case de...
TCAD
2008
13 years 5 months ago
2008
Power consumption has emerged as the premier and most constraining aspect in modern microprocessor and application-specific designs. Gate sizing has been shown to be one of the mos...
ISPASS
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2006
IEEE
The latest high-performance IBM PowerPC microprocessor, the POWER5 chip, poses challenges for performance model validation. The current stateof-the-art is to use simple hand-coded...