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2009
IEEE
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Optimal sizing of configurable devices to reduce variability in integrated circuits
This paper describes a systematic approach that facilitates yield improvement of integrated circuits at the post-manufacture stage. A new Configurable Analogue Transistor (CAT) st...
Peter Wilson, Reuben Wilcock
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2009
IEEE
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Towards a formal semantics for the AADL behavior annex
—AADL is an Architecture Description Language which describes embedded real-time systems. Behavior annex is an extension of the dispatch mechanism of AADL execution model. This p...
Zhibin Yang, Kai Hu, Dianfu Ma, Lei Pi
DATE
2009
IEEE
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Imperfection-immune VLSI logic circuits using Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistors
Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistors (CNFETs) show big promise as extensions to silicon-CMOS because: 1) Ideal CNFETs can provide significant energy and performance benefits o...
Subhasish Mitra, Jie Zhang, Nishant Patil, Hai Wei
DATE
2009
IEEE
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ORION 2.0: A fast and accurate NoC power and area model for early-stage design space exploration
As industry moves towards many-core chips, networks-on-chip (NoCs) are emerging as the scalable fabric for interconnecting the cores. With power now the first-order design constr...
Andrew B. Kahng, Bin Li, Li-Shiuan Peh, Kambiz Sam...
DATE
2009
IEEE
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Reliable mode changes in real-time systems with fixed priority or EDF scheduling
Abstract—Many application domains require adaptive realtime embedded systems that can change their functionality over time. In such systems it is not only necessary to guarantee ...
Nikolay Stoimenov, Simon Perathoner, Lothar Thiele
DATE
2009
IEEE
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Partition-based exploration for reconfigurable JPEG designs
Philip G. Potter, Wayne Luk, Peter Y. K. Cheung
DATE
2009
IEEE
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Dynamic thermal management in 3D multicore architectures
— Technology scaling has caused the feature sizes to shrink continuously, whereas interconnects, unlike transistors, have not followed the same trend. Designing 3D stack architec...
Ayse Kivilcim Coskun, José L. Ayala, David ...
DATE
2009
IEEE
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Priority based forced requeue to reduce worst-case latencies for bursty traffic
- In this paper we introduce Priority Based Forced Requeue to decrease worst-case latencies in NoCs offering best effort services. Forced Requeue is to prematurely lift out low pri...
Mikael Millberg, Axel Jantsch
DATE
2009
IEEE
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Property analysis and design understanding
—Verification is a major issue in circuit and system design. Formal methods like bounded model checking (BMC) can guarantee a high quality of the verification. There are severa...
Ulrich Kühne, Daniel Große, Rolf Drechs...
DATE
2009
IEEE
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A formal approach for specification-driven AMS behavioral model generation
Subhankar Mukherjee, Antara Ain, S. K. Panda, Rajd...