DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2008
ACM
Boolean function bi-decomposition is a fundamental operation in logic synthesis. A function f(X) is bi-decomposable under a variable partition XA, XB, XC on X if it can be written...
DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2008
ACM
This paper introduces an accurate and efficient electrical analysis of logic gates modeled as Multiple Voltage Threshold Models (MVTM) loaded by the associated interconnect. MVTMs...
DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2008
ACM
DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2008
ACM
Modern CMOS manufacturing processes have significant variability, which necessitates guard banding to achieve reasonable yield. We study an FPGA architecture with a dual voltage s...
DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2008
ACM
We present a domain-specific approach to representing datapaths for hardware implementations of linear signal transform algorithms. We extend the tensor structure for describing l...
DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2008
ACM
Technological advances enable modern processors to utilize increasingly larger DRAMs with rising access frequencies. This is leading to high power consumption and operating temper...
DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2008
ACM
Clock gating is the insertion of combinational logic along the clock path to prevent the unnecessary switching of registers and reduce dynamic power consumption. The conditions un...
DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2008
ACM
Spatially-correlated intra-die process variations result in significant core-to-core frequency variations in chip-multiprocessors. An analytical model for frequency island chip-mu...
DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2008
ACM
This paper presents a hybrid CNT/CMOS chemical sensor system that comprises of a carbon nanotube sensor array and a CMOS interface chip. The full system, including the sensor, con...
DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
2008
ACM
Integrated circuits with bounded lifetimes can have many business advantages. We give some simple examples of m ods to enforce tunable expiration dates for chips using nanom reliab...