DAC
2009
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
2009
ACM
Manufacturing process variability impacts the performance of synchronous logic circuits by means of its effect on both clock network and functional block delays. Typically, varia...
DAC
2009
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
2009
ACM
It is known that temperature gradients and thermal hotspots affect the reliability of microprocessors. Temperature is also an important constraint when maximizing the performance...
DAC
2009
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
2009
ACM
With new technologies, temperature has become a major issue to be considered at system level design. Without taking temperature aspects into consideration, no approach to energy o...
DAC
2009
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
2009
ACM
It is unknown how to include stochastic process variation into fast-multipole-method (FMM) for a full chip capacitance extraction. This paper presents a parallel FMM extraction us...
DAC
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2009
ACM
Heterogeneous multicore processors promise high execution
efficiency under diverse workloads, and program scheduling is
critical in exploiting this efficiency. This paper present...
DAC
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2009
ACM
For a number of years, dataflow concepts have provided designers of digital signal processing systems with environments capable of expressing high-level software architectures as ...
DAC
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2009
ACM
Energy consumption is of significant concern in battery operated embedded systems. In the processors of such systems, the instruction cache consumes a significant fraction of the ...
DAC
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2009
ACM
Traditionally, synchronous languages, such as Esterel, have been compiled into hardware, where timing analysis is relatively easy. When compiled into software ? e.g., into sequent...
DAC
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2009
ACM
At runtime, an embedded control system can switch between alternative functional modes. In each mode, the system operates by using a schedule and controllers that exploit the avai...
DAC
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2009
ACM
Computational complexity has been the primary challenge of many VLSI CAD applications. The emerging multicore and manycore microprocessors have the potential to offer scalable perf...