DATE
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2002
IEEE
System-on-chip (SOC) design methodology is becoming the trend in the IC industry. Integrating reusable cores from multiple sources is essential in SOC design, and different design...
DATE
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2002
IEEE
The argument against ASIC SoCs is that they have always taken too long and cost too much to design. As new process technologies come on line, the issue of inflexible, unyielding d...
DATE
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2002
IEEE
Deterministic observation and random excitation of fault sites during the ATPG process dramatically reduces the overall defective part level. However, multiple observations of eac...
DATE
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2002
IEEE
There are some types of faults in analogue and mixed signal circuits which are very difficult to detect using either voltage or current based test methods. However, it is possible...
DATE
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2002
IEEE
The oscillator problem consists of determining good initial values for the node voltages and the frequency of oscillation and the avoidance of the DC solution. Standard approaches...
DATE
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2002
IEEE
Software self-testing for embedded processor cores based on their instruction set, is a topic of increasing interest since it provides an excellent test resource partitioning tech...
DATE
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2002
IEEE
We present a Dynamic VTH Scaling (DVTS) scheme to save the leakage power during active mode of the circuit. The power saving strategy of DVTS is similar to that of the Dynamic VDD...
DATE
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2002
IEEE
DATE
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2002
IEEE
Intra-iteration data reuse occurs when multiple array references exhibit data reuse in a single loop iteration. An optimizing compiler can exploit this reuse by clustering (in the...
DATE
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2002
IEEE
This paper presents a novel Energy-Aware Compilation (EAC) framework that can estimate and optimize energy consumption of a given code taking as input the architectural and techno...