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DAC
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
PDRAM:a hybrid PRAM and DRAM main memory system
In this paper, we propose PDRAM, a novel energy efficient main memory architecture based on phase change random access memory (PRAM) and DRAM. The paper explores the challenges in...
Gaurav Dhiman, Raid Ayoub, Tajana Rosing
DAC
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Enabling adaptability through elastic clocks
Power and performance benefits of scaling are lost to worst case margins as uncertainty of device characteristics is increasing. Adaptive techniques can dynamically adjust the mar...
Emre Tuncer, Jordi Cortadella, Luciano Lavagno
DAC
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Way Stealing:cache-assisted automatic instruction set extensions
This paper introduces Way Stealing, a simple architectural modification to a cache-based processor to increase data bandwidth to and from application-specific Instruction Set Exte...
Theo Kluter, Philip Brisk, Paolo Ienne, Edoardo Ch...
DAC
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Designing heterogeneous ECU networks via compact architecture encoding and hybrid timing analysis
In this paper, a design method for automotive architectures is proposed. The two main technical contributions are (i) a novel hardware/software architecture encoding that unifies ...
Jürgen Teich, Martin Lukasiewycz, Michael Gla...
DAC
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Double patterning lithography friendly detailed routing with redundant via consideration
In double patterning lithography (DPL), coloring conflict and stitch minimization are the two main challenges. Post layout decomposition algorithm [1] [2]may not be enough to achi...
Kun Yuan, Katrina Lu, David Z. Pan
DAC
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Carbon nanotube circuits in the presence of carbon nanotube density variations
Jie Zhang, Nishant Patil, Arash Hazeghi, Subhasish...
DAC
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Decoding nanowire arrays fabricated with the multi-spacer patterning technique
Silicon nanowires are a promising solution to address the increasing challenges of fabrication and design at the future nodes of the Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS)...
M. Haykel Ben Jamaa, Yusuf Leblebici, Giovanni De ...
DAC
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Improving STT MRAM storage density through smaller-than-worst-case transistor sizing
This paper presents a technique to improve the storage density of spin-torque transfer (STT) magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) in the presence of significant magnetic t...
Wei Xu, Yiran Chen, Xiaobin Wang, Tong Zhang
DAC
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Non-intrusive dynamic application profiling for multitasked applications
Application profiling ? the process of monitoring an application to determine the frequency of execution within specific regions ? is an essential step within the design process f...
Karthik Shankar, Roman L. Lysecky