DATE
2004
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
2004
IEEE
A challenge facing designers of systems on chip (SoC) containing networks on chip (NoC) is to find NoC instances that balance the cost (e.g. area) and performance (e.g. latency an...
DATE
2004
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
2004
IEEE
In this paper, we explore the requirements of emerging complex SoC's and describe StepNP, an experimental flexible, multi-processor SoC platform targeted towards communicatio...
DATE
2004
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
2004
IEEE
In this paper, we propose a simple technique for estimating the standard deviation of a Gaussian random jitter component in a multi-gigahertz signal. This method may utilize exist...
DATE
2004
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
2004
IEEE
As we move towards nanometer technology, manufacturing problems become overwhelmingly difficult to solve. Presently, optimization for manufacturability is performed at a post-synt...
DATE
2004
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
2004
IEEE
Given a set of real-time tasks scheduled using the earliest deadline first (EDF) algorithm, we discuss two techniques for reducing power consumption while meeting all timing requi...
DATE
2004
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
2004
IEEE
We address the design of complex monolithic systems, where processing cores generate and consume a varying and large amount of data, thus bringing the communication links to the e...
DATE
2004
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
2004
IEEE
We lay a foundation for modeling and validation of asynchronous designs in a multi-clock synchronous programming model. This allows us to study properties of globally asynchronous...
DATE
2004
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
2004
IEEE
To alleviate the system performance unpredictability of multitasking applications running on multiprocessor platforms with shared memory hierarchies we propose a task level set ba...
DATE
2004
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
2004
IEEE
Functional verification is widely acknowledged as a major bottleneck in microprocessor design. While early work on specification driven functional test program generation has prop...
DATE
2004
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
2004
IEEE
In this paper, we study the net and pin distribution problem for global routing targeting three dimensional packaging layout via System-on-Package (SOP). The routing environment f...