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DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Temperature management in multiprocessor SoCs using online learning
In deep submicron circuits, thermal hot spots and high temperature gradients increase the cooling costs, and degrade reliability and performance. In this paper, we propose a low-co...
Ayse Kivilcim Coskun, Tajana Simunic Rosing, Kenny...
DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Enhancing timing-driven FPGA placement for pipelined netlists
FPGA application developers often attempt to use pipelining, Cslowing and retiming to improve the performance of their designs. Unfortunately, such registered netlists present a f...
Kenneth Eguro, Scott Hauck
DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
An 8x8 run-time reconfigurable FPGA embedded in a SoC
This paper presents a RTR FPGA embedded in a System on Chip fabricated in 130nm CMOS process. Various aspects of the design flow, from automation to floor-planning are discussed. ...
Sumanta Chaudhuri, Sylvain Guilley, Florent Flamen...
DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Study of the effects of MBUs on the reliability of a 150 nm SRAM device
1 Soft errors induced by radiation are an increasing problem in the microelectronic field. Although traditional models estimate the reliability of memories suffering Single Event U...
Juan Antonio Maestro, Pedro Reviriego
DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
The synthesis of robust polynomial arithmetic with stochastic logic
As integrated circuit technology plumbs ever greater depths in the scaling of feature sizes, maintaining the paradigm of deterministic Boolean computation is increasingly challeng...
Weikang Qian, Marc D. Riedel
DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Stochastic integral equation solver for efficient variation-aware interconnect extraction
In this paper we present an efficient algorithm for extracting the complete statistical distribution of the input impedance of interconnect structures in the presence of a large n...
Tarek Moselhy, Luca Daniel
DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Transistor level gate modeling for accurate and fast timing, noise, and power analysis
Current source based cell models are becoming a necessity for accurate timing and noise analysis at 65nm and below. Voltage waveform shapes are increasingly more difficult to repr...
S. Raja, F. Varadi, Murat R. Becer, Joao Geada
DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Many-core design from a thermal perspective
Air cooling limits have been a major design challenge in recent years for integrated circuits. Multi-core exacerbates thermal challenges because power scales with the number of co...
Wei Huang, Mircea R. Stan, Karthik Sankaranarayana...
DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
The mixed signal optimum energy point: voltage and parallelism
An energy optimization is proposed that addresses the nontrivial digital contribution to power and impact on performance in high-speed mixed-signal circuits. Parallel energy and b...
Brian P. Ginsburg, Anantha P. Chandrakasan