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DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Many-core design from a thermal perspective
Air cooling limits have been a major design challenge in recent years for integrated circuits. Multi-core exacerbates thermal challenges because power scales with the number of co...
Wei Huang, Mircea R. Stan, Karthik Sankaranarayana...
DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
The mixed signal optimum energy point: voltage and parallelism
An energy optimization is proposed that addresses the nontrivial digital contribution to power and impact on performance in high-speed mixed-signal circuits. Parallel energy and b...
Brian P. Ginsburg, Anantha P. Chandrakasan
DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
An area-efficient high-throughput hybrid interconnection network for single-chip parallel processing
Single-chip parallel processing requires high bandwidth between processors and on-chip memory modules. A recently proposed Mesh-of-Trees (MoT) network provides high throughput and...
Aydin O. Balkan, Gang Qu, Uzi Vishkin
DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Cache modeling in probabilistic execution time analysis
Multimedia-dominated consumer electronics devices (such as cellular phone, digital camera, etc.) operate under soft real-time constraints. Overly pessimistic worst-case execution ...
Yun Liang, Tulika Mitra
DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Automated transistor sizing for FPGA architecture exploration
The creation of an FPGA requires extensive transistor-level design. This is necessary for both the final design, and during architecture exploration, when many different logic and...
Ian Kuon, Jonathan Rose
DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
A progressive-ILP based routing algorithm for cross-referencing biochips
Due to recent advances in microfluidics technology, digital microfluidic biochips and their associated CAD problems have gained much attention, most of which has been devoted to d...
Ping-Hung Yuh, Sachin S. Sapatnekar, Chia-Lin Yang...
DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Partial order reduction for scalable testing of systemC TLM designs
A SystemC simulation kernel consists of a deterministic implementation of the scheduler, whose specification is nondeterministic. To leverage testing of a SystemC TLM design, we f...
Sudipta Kundu, Malay K. Ganai, Rajesh Gupta
DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
SystemCoDesigner: automatic design space exploration and rapid prototyping from behavioral models
SystemCoDesigner is an ESL tool developed at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. SystemCoDesigner offers a fast design space exploration and rapid prototyping of behavi...
Christian Haubelt, Thomas Schlichter, Joachim Kein...
DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
On reliable modular testing with vulnerable test access mechanisms
In modular testing of system-on-a-chip (SoC), test access mechanisms (TAMs) are used to transport test data between the input/output pins of the SoC and the cores under test. Prio...
Lin Huang, Feng Yuan, Qiang Xu