DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
Modern CMOS manufacturing processes have significant variability, which necessitates guard banding to achieve reasonable yield. We study an FPGA architecture with a dual voltage s...
DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
We present a domain-specific approach to representing datapaths for hardware implementations of linear signal transform algorithms. We extend the tensor structure for describing l...
DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
Technological advances enable modern processors to utilize increasingly larger DRAMs with rising access frequencies. This is leading to high power consumption and operating temper...
DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
Clock gating is the insertion of combinational logic along the clock path to prevent the unnecessary switching of registers and reduce dynamic power consumption. The conditions un...
DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
Spatially-correlated intra-die process variations result in significant core-to-core frequency variations in chip-multiprocessors. An analytical model for frequency island chip-mu...
DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
This paper presents a hybrid CNT/CMOS chemical sensor system that comprises of a carbon nanotube sensor array and a CMOS interface chip. The full system, including the sensor, con...
DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
Integrated circuits with bounded lifetimes can have many business advantages. We give some simple examples of m ods to enforce tunable expiration dates for chips using nanom reliab...
DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
Future SoCs will contain multiple cores. For workloads with significant parallelism, prior work has shown the benefit of many small, multi-threaded, scalar cores. For workloads th...
DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2008
ACM
A fundamental problem in timing-driven physical synthesis is the reduction of critical paths in a design. In this work, we propose a powerful new technique that moves (and can als...