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DAC
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Automated fixed-point data-type optimization tool for signal processing and communication systems
A tool that automates the floating-point to fixed-point conversion (FFC) process for digital signal processing systems is described. The tool automatically optimizes fixed-point d...
Changchun Shi, Robert W. Brodersen
DAC
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Design automation for mask programmable fabrics
Programmable circuit design has played an important role in improving design productivity over the last few decades. By imposing structure on the design, efficient automation of s...
Narendra V. Shenoy, Jamil Kawa, Raul Camposano
DAC
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
A general decomposition strategy for verifying register renaming
This paper describes a strategy for verifying data-hazard correctness of out-of-order processors that implement register-renaming. We define a set of predicates to characterize re...
Hazem I. Shehata, Mark Aagaard
DAC
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Profile-based optimal intra-task voltage scheduling for hard real-time applications
This paper presents a set of comprehensive techniques for the intratask voltage scheduling problem to reduce energy consumption in hard real-time tasks of embedded systems. Based ...
Jaewon Seo, Taewhan Kim, Ki-Seok Chung
DAC
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Abstraction of assembler programs for symbolic worst case execution time analysis
ion of Assembler Programs for Symbolic Worst Case Execution Time Analysis Tobias Schuele Tobias.Schuele@informatik.uni-kl.de Klaus Schneider Klaus.Schneider@informatik.uni-kl.de Re...
Klaus Schneider, Tobias Schüle
DAC
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
A method to decompose multiple-output logic functions
This paper shows a method to decompose a given multipleoutput circuit into two circuits with intermediate outputs. We use a BDD for characteristic function (BDD for CF) to represe...
Tsutomu Sasao, Munehiro Matsuura
DAC
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Benefits and challenges for platform-based design
Platforms have become an important concept in the design of electronic systems. We present here the motivations behind the interest shown and the challenges that we have to face t...
Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, Luca P. Carlon...
DAC
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Reducing clock skew variability via cross links
Increasingly significant variational effects present a great challenge for delivering desired clock skew reliably. Non-tree clock network has been recognized as a promising approac...
Anand Rajaram, Jiang Hu, Rabi N. Mahapatra
DAC
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Modular scheduling of guarded atomic actions
A modular synthesis flow is essential for a scalable and hierarchical design methodology. This paper considers a particular modular flow where each module has interface methods an...
Daniel L. Rosenband, Arvind
DAC
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Security as a new dimension in embedded system design
The growing number of instances of breaches in information security in the last few years has created a compelling case for efforts towards secure electronic systems. Embedded sys...
Srivaths Ravi, Paul C. Kocher, Ruby B. Lee, Gary M...