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DAC
2013
ACM
9 years 10 months ago
Mapping on multi/many-core systems: survey of current and emerging trends
The reliance on multi/many-core systems to satisfy the high performance requirement of complex embedded software applications is increasing. This necessitates the need to realize ...
Amit Kumar Singh, Muhammad Shafique, Akash Kumar, ...
DAC
2012
ACM
11 years 5 months ago
ComPLx: A Competitive Primal-dual Lagrange Optimization for Global Placement
We develop a projected-subgradient primal-dual Lagrange optimization for global placement, that can be instantiated with a variety of interconnect models. It decomposes the origin...
Myung-Chul Kim, Igor L. Markov
DAC
2012
ACM
11 years 5 months ago
Assessing the performance limits of parallelized near-threshold computing
Supply voltage scaling has stagnated in recent technology nodes, leading to so-called “dark silicon.” In this paper, we investigate the limit of voltage scaling together with ...
Nathaniel Ross Pinckney, Korey Sewell, Ronald G. D...
DAC
2012
ACM
11 years 5 months ago
On software design for stochastic processors
Much recent research [8, 6, 7] suggests significant power and energy benefits of relaxing correctness constraints in future processors. Such processors with relaxed constraints ...
Joseph Sloan, John Sartori, Rakesh Kumar
DAC
2012
ACM
11 years 5 months ago
Equivalence checking for behaviorally synthesized pipelines
Loop pipelining is a critical transformation in behavioral synthesis. It is crucial to producing hardware designs with acceptable latency and throughput. However, it is a complex ...
Kecheng Hao, Sandip Ray, Fei Xie
DAC
2012
ACM
11 years 5 months ago
An information-theoretic framework for optimal temperature sensor allocation and full-chip thermal monitoring
Full-chip thermal monitoring is an important and challenging issue in today’s microprocessor design. In this paper, we propose a new information-theoretic framework to quantitat...
Huapeng Zhou, Xin Li, Chen-Yong Cher, Eren Kursun,...
DAC
2012
ACM
11 years 5 months ago
High radix self-arbitrating switch fabric with multiple arbitration schemes and quality of service
A scalable architecture to design high radix switch fabric is presented. It uses circuit techniques to re-use existing input and output data buses and switching logic for fabric c...
Sudhir Satpathy, Reetuparna Das, Ronald G. Dreslin...
DAC
2012
ACM
11 years 5 months ago
Chisel: constructing hardware in a Scala embedded language
In this paper we introduce Chisel, a new hardware construction language that supports advanced hardware design using highly parameterized generators and layered domain-specific h...
Jonathan Bachrach, Huy Vo, Brian Richards, Yunsup ...
DAC
2012
ACM
11 years 5 months ago
Is dark silicon useful?: harnessing the four horsemen of the coming dark silicon apocalypse
Due to the breakdown of Dennardian scaling, the percentage of a silicon chip that can switch at full frequency is dropping exponentially with each process generation. This utiliza...
Michael B. Taylor
DAC
2012
ACM
11 years 5 months ago
A QoS-aware memory controller for dynamically balancing GPU and CPU bandwidth use in an MPSoC
Diverse IP cores are integrated on a modern system-on-chip and share resources. Off-chip memory bandwidth is often the scarcest resource and requires careful allocation. Two of t...
Min Kyu Jeong, Mattan Erez, Chander Sudanthi, Nige...