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HPCA
2012
IEEE
12 years 3 days ago
Flexible register management using reference counting
Conventional out-of-order processors that use a unified physical register file allocate and reclaim registers explicitly using a free list that operates as a circular queue. We ...
Steven Battle, Andrew D. Hilton, Mark Hempstead, A...
ICCAD
2009
IEEE
133views Hardware» more  ICCAD 2009»
13 years 2 months ago
A parallel preconditioning strategy for efficient transistor-level circuit simulation
A parallel computing approach for large-scale SPICE-accurate circuit simulation is described that is based on a new preconditioned iterative solver. The preconditioner involves the...
Heidi Thornquist, Eric R. Keiter, Robert J. Hoekst...
ICCAD
1993
IEEE
104views Hardware» more  ICCAD 1993»
13 years 8 months ago
Parallel timing simulation on a distributed memory multiprocessor
Circuit simulation is one of the most computationally expensive tasks in circuit design and optimization. Detailed simulation at the level of precision of SPICE is usually perform...
Chih-Po Wen, Katherine A. Yelick
EURODAC
1994
IEEE
209views VHDL» more  EURODAC 1994»
13 years 8 months ago
MOS VLSI circuit simulation by hardware accelerator using semi-natural models
- The accelerator is destined to circuit-level simulation of digital and analog/digital MOS VLSI'c containing of up to 100 thousand transistors (with 16 Mb RAM host-machine). ...
Victor V. Denisenko
ICCAD
2006
IEEE
101views Hardware» more  ICCAD 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
A unified non-rectangular device and circuit simulation model for timing and power
— For 65nm and below devices, even after optical proximity correction (OPC), the gate may still be non-rectangular. There are several limited works on the device and circuit char...
Sean X. Shi, Peng Yu, David Z. Pan