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DAC
2006
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Systematic software-based self-test for pipelined processors
Software-based self-test (SBST) has recently emerged as an effective methodology for the manufacturing test of processors and other components in systems-on-chip (SoCs). By moving ...
Mihalis Psarakis, Dimitris Gizopoulos, Miltiadis H...
DAC
2006
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
A fast HW/SW FPGA-based thermal emulation framework for multi-processor system-on-chip
With the growing complexity in consumer embedded products and the improvements in process technology, Multi-Processor SystemOn-Chip (MPSoC) architectures have become widespread. T...
David Atienza, Pablo Garcia Del Valle, Giacomo Pac...
DAC
2006
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
IMPRES: integrated monitoring for processor reliability and security
Security and reliability in processor based systems are concerns requiring adroit solutions. Security is often compromised by code injection attacks, jeopardizing even `trusted so...
Roshan G. Ragel, Sri Parameswaran
DAC
2006
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Refined statistical static timing analysis through
Statistical static timing analysis (SSTA) has been a popular research topic in recent years. A fundamental issue with applying SSTA in practice today is the lack of reliable and e...
Benjamin N. Lee, Li-C. Wang, Magdy S. Abadir
DAC
2006
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Steiner network construction for timing critical nets
Conventionally, signal net routing is almost always implemented as Steiner trees. However, non-tree topology is often superior on timing performance as well as tolerance to open f...
Shiyan Hu, Qiuyang Li, Jiang Hu, Peng Li
DAC
2006
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
A fast on-chip decoupling capacitance budgeting algorithm using macromodeling and linear programming
We propose a novel and efficient charge-based decoupling capacitance budgeting algorithm. Our method uses the macromodeling technique and effective radius of decoupling capacitan...
Min Zhao, Rajendran Panda, Savithri Sundareswaran,...
DAC
2006
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
High-performance operating system controlled memory compression
This article describes a new software-based on-line memory compression algorithm for embedded systems and presents a method of adaptively managing the uncompressed and compressed ...
Lei Yang, Haris Lekatsas, Robert P. Dick
DAC
2006
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Entering the hot zone: can you handle the heat and be cool?
A. Yang, R. Chandra, S. Burke, J. A. DeLaCruz, S. ...
DAC
2006
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
A systematic method for functional unit power estimation in microprocessors
We present a new method for mathematically estimating the active unit power of functional units in modern microprocessors such as the Pentium 4 family. Our method leverages the ph...
Wei Wu, Lingling Jin, Jun Yang 0002, Pu Liu, Sheld...
DAC
2006
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Modeling and minimization of PMOS NBTI effect for robust nanometer design
Negative bias temperature instability (NBTI) has become the dominant reliability concern for nanoscale PMOS transistors. In this paper, a predictive model is developed for the deg...
Rakesh Vattikonda, Wenping Wang, Yu Cao