ICCD
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2005
IEEE
As CMOS technology scales deeper into the nanometer regime, factors such as leakage power and chip temperature emerge as critically important concerns for VLSI design. This paper,...
ICCD
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2005
IEEE
Thermal management in microprocessors has become a major design challenge in recent years. Thermal monitoring through hardware sensors is important, and these sensors must be care...
ICCD
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2005
IEEE
Performance of modern computers is tied closely to the effective use of cache because of the continually increasing speed discrepancy between processors and main memory. We demons...
ICCD
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2005
IEEE
Abstract— Noise induced by impedance discontinuities from VLSI packaging is one of the leading challenges facing system level designers in the next decade. The performance of IC ...
ICCD
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2005
IEEE
Traditional approaches for sequential logic optimization include (1) explicit state-based techniques such as state minimization, (2) structural techniques such as retiming, and (3...
ICCD
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2005
IEEE
Recent studies have shown that in highly associative caches, the performance gap between the Least Recently Used (LRU) and the theoretical optimal replacement algorithms is large,...
ICCD
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2005
IEEE
Increasingly significant power/ground supply voltage degradation in nanometer VLSI designs leads to system performance degradation and even malfunction. Existing techniques focus...
ICCD
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2005
IEEE
Designing temperature-aware microarchitectures for microprocessors at new technologies is becoming a critical requirement due to the exponentially increasing on-chip power density...
ICCD
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2005
IEEE
As technology scales, power consumption and thermal effects have become challenges for system-on-chip designers. The rising on-chip temperatures can have negative impacts on SoC p...
ICCD
2005
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
2005
IEEE
Content Addressable Memories (CAM) are widely used for the tag portions in highly associative caches. Since data are not explicitly read out of tag array in CAM search, the detect...