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DAC
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Generation of yield-aware Pareto surfaces for hierarchical circuit design space exploration
Pareto surfaces in the performance space determine the range of feasible performance values for a circuit topology in a given technology. We present a non-dominated sorting based ...
Saurabh K. Tiwary, Pragati K. Tiwary, Rob A. Ruten...
DAC
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
A real time budgeting method for module-level-pipelined bus based system using bus scenarios
In designing bus based systems with parallel and pipelined architecture, it is important to derive a real time budget (a specified execution time limit) for each task of a bus bas...
Tadaaki Tanimoto, Seiji Yamaguchi, Akio Nakata, Te...
DAC
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Gate sizing: finFETs vs 32nm bulk MOSFETs
FinFET devices promise to replace traditional MOSFETs because of superior ability in controlling leakage and minimizing short channel effects while delivering a strong drive curre...
Brian Swahn, Soha Hassoun
DAC
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Efficient detection and exploitation of infeasible paths for software timing analysis
Accurate estimation of the worst-case execution time (WCET) of a program is important for real-time embedded software. Static WCET estimation involves program path analysis and ar...
Vivy Suhendra, Tulika Mitra, Abhik Roychoudhury, T...
DAC
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Exploring trade-offs in buffer requirements and throughput constraints for synchronous dataflow graphs
Multimedia applications usually have throughput constraints. An implementation must meet these constraints, while it minimizes resource usage and energy consumption. The compute i...
Sander Stuijk, Marc Geilen, Twan Basten
DAC
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
FLAW: FPGA lifetime awareness
Aggressive scaling of technology has an adverse impact on the reliability of VLSI circuits. Apart from increasing transient error susceptibility, the circuits also become more vul...
Suresh Srinivasan, Prasanth Mangalagiri, Yuan Xie,...
DAC
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Synthesis of high-performance packet processing pipelines
Packet editing is a fundamental building block of data communication systems such as switches and routers. Circuits that implement this function are critical and define the featur...
Cristian Soviani, Ilija Hadzic, Stephen A. Edwards
DAC
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Statistical timing analysis with correlated non-gaussian parameters using independent component analysis
We propose a scalable and efficient parameterized block-based statistical static timing analysis algorithm incorporating both Gaussian and non-Gaussian parameter distributions, ca...
Jaskirat Singh, Sachin S. Sapatnekar
DAC
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Gain-based technology mapping for minimum runtime leakage under input vector uncertainty
The gain-based technology mapping paradigm has been successfully employed for finding minimum delay and minimum area mappings. However, existing gain-based technology mappers fail...
Ashish Kumar Singh, Murari Mani, Ruchir Puri, Mich...
DAC
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Circuit simulation based obstacle-aware Steiner routing
Steiner routing is a fundamental yet NP-hard problem in VLSI design and other research fields. In this paper, we propose to model the routing graph by an RC network with routing t...
Yiyu Shi, Paul Mesa, Hao Yu, Lei He