— Memories are increasingly dominating Systems on Chip (SoC) designs and thus contribute a large percentage of the total system’s power dissipation, area and reliability. In th...
Amin Khajeh, Aseem Gupta, Nikil Dutt, Fadi J. Kurd...
Temperature is becoming a first rate design criterion in ASICs due to its negative impact on leakage power, reliability, performance, and packaging cost. Incorporating awareness o...
Rajarshi Mukherjee, Seda Ogrenci Memik, Gokhan Mem...
A hierarchical scheme with cells and modules is crucial for managing design complexity during a large integrated circuit design. We present a methodology for thermal aware cell-ba...
: The power density in high performance systems continues to rise with every process technology generation, thereby increasing the operating temperature and creating ‘hot spotsâ€...
Giacomo Paci, Francesco Poletti, Luca Benini, Paul...
Estimation of static and dynamic energy of caches is critical for high-performance low-power designs. Commercial CAD tools performing energy estimation statically are not aware of...
Shrikanth Ganapathy, Ramon Canal, Antonio Gonz&aac...