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DAC
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
User-perceived latency driven voltage scaling for interactive applications
Power has become a critical concern for battery-driven computing systems, on which many applications that are run are interactive. System-level voltage scaling techniques, such as...
Le Yan, Lin Zhong, Niraj K. Jha
DAC
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
OPERA: optimization with ellipsoidal uncertainty for robust analog IC design
As the d esig n-m anu factu ring interface becom es increasing ly com plicated with IC technolog y scaling , the correspond ing process variability poses g reat challeng es for na...
Yang Xu, Kan-Lin Hsiung, Xin Li, Ivan Nausieda, St...
DAC
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
A non-parametric approach for dynamic range estimation of nonlinear systems
It has been widely recognized that the dynamic range information of an application can be exploited to reduce the datapath bitwidth of either processors or ASICs, and therefore th...
Bin Wu, Jianwen Zhu, Farid N. Najm
DAC
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Flexible ASIC: shared masking for multiple media processors
ASIC provides more than an order of magnitude advantage in terms of density, speed, and power requirement per gate. However, economic (cost of masks) and technological (deep micro...
Jennifer L. Wong, Farinaz Koushanfar, Miodrag Potk...
DAC
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Systematic development of analog circuit structural macromodels through behavioral model decoupling
This paper presents a systematic methodology to create customized structural macromodels for a specific analog circuit. The novel contributions of the method include definition of...
Ying Wei, Alex Doboli
DAC
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Operator-based model-order reduction of linear periodically time-varying systems
eriodically time-varying (LPTV) abstractions are useful for a variety of communication and computer subsystems. In this paper, we present a novel operator-based model-order reduct...
Yayun Wan, Jaijeet S. Roychowdhury
DAC
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
StressTest: an automatic approach to test generation via activity monitors
The challenge of verifying a modern microprocessor design is an overwhelming one: Increasingly complex micro-architectures combined with heavy time-to-market pressure have forced ...
Ilya Wagner, Valeria Bertacco, Todd M. Austin
DAC
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Logic block clustering of large designs for channel-width constrained FPGAs
In this paper we present a system level technique for mapping large, multiple-IP-block designs to channel-width constrained FPGAs. Most FPGA clustering tools [2, 3, 11] aim to red...
Marvin Tom, Guy G. Lemieux
DAC
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Scalable trajectory methods for on-demand analog macromodel extraction
Trajectory methods sample the state trajectory of a circuit as it simulates in the time domain, and build macromodels by reducing and interpolating among the linearizations create...
Saurabh K. Tiwary, Rob A. Rutenbar