Current day network processors incorporate several architectural features including symmetric multi-processing (SMP), block multi-threading, and multiple memory elements to suppor...
Cost effective SOC test strongly hinges on parallel, independent test of SOC cores, which can only be ensured through proper core isolation techniques. While a core isolation mech...
—This paper highlights a series of proven concepts aimed at facilitating the design of next generation systems. Practical system design examples are examined and provide insight ...
Lateral heat conduction between modules affects the temperature profile of a floorplan, affecting the leakage power of individual blocks which increasingly is becoming a larger ...
Error-tolerance is an innovative way to enhance the effective yield of IC products. Previously a test methodology based on error-rate estimation to support error-tolerance was pro...
Many embedded applications exist where decisions are made using sensitive information. A critical issue in such applications is to ensure that data is accessed only by authorized ...
Sri Hari Krishna Narayanan, Mahmut T. Kandemir, Ri...
Everybody agrees that curing DFM/DFY issues is of paramount importance at 65 nanometers and beyond. Unfortunately, there is disagreement about how and when to cure them. “Surgeo...
Marco Casale-Rossi, Andrzej J. Strojwas, Robert C....
- The intrinsic capability brought by each new technology node opens the way to a broad range of system integration options and continuously enables new applications to be integrat...
Maurizio Paganini, Georg Kimmich, Stephane Ducrey,...