ICCD
2003
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2003
IEEE
There is a growing interest in the use of speculative multithreading to speed up the execution of a program. In speculative multithreading model, threads are extracted from a sequ...
ICCD
2003
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2003
IEEE
There is currently a huge gap between the two main technologies used to implement custom digital integrated circuit (IC) designs. At one end of the spectrum are field programmable...
ICCD
2003
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2003
IEEE
Functional symmetries provide significant benefits for multiple tasks in synthesis and verification. Many applications require the manual specification of symmetries using spe...
ICCD
2003
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2003
IEEE
Continued advancements in fabrication technology and reductions in feature size create challenges in maintaining both manufacturing yield rates and long-term reliability of device...
ICCD
2003
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2003
IEEE
This paper introduces a new method for two-level logic minimization. Unlike previous approaches, the new method uses a SAT solver as an underlying engine. While the overall minimi...
ICCD
2003
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2003
IEEE
Modern processors rely heavily on broadcast networks to bypass instruction results to dependent instructions in the pipeline. However, as clock rates increase, architectures get w...
ICCD
2003
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2003
IEEE
Compiled simulation is a well known technique for improving the performance of instruction set simulators at the cost of compilation time. However the compilation time overhead ma...
ICCD
2003
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2003
IEEE
We present a methodology for a power-optimized, software-controlled Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB) organization. A highly reduced number of Virtual Page Number (VPN) bits suf...
ICCD
2003
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2003
IEEE
Embedded processors like Intel’s XScale use dynamic branch prediction to improve performance. Due to the presence of context switches, the accuracy of these predictors is reduce...
ICCD
2003
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2003
IEEE
Analyzing the effect of crosstalk on delay is critical for high performance circuits. The major bottleneck in performing crosstalkinduced delay analysis is the high computational ...