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ICCAD
2008
IEEE
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Practical, fast Monte Carlo statistical static timing analysis: why and how
Statistical static timing analysis (SSTA) has emerged as an essential tool for nanoscale designs. Monte Carlo methods are universally employed to validate the accuracy of the appr...
Amith Singhee, Sonia Singhal, Rob A. Rutenbar
ICCAD
2008
IEEE
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A voltage-frequency island aware energy optimization framework for networks-on-chip
— In this paper, we present a partitioning, mapping, and routing optimization framework for energy-efficient VFI (Voltage-Frequency Island) based Network-on-Chip. Unlike the rece...
Wooyoung Jang, Duo Ding, David Z. Pan
ICCAD
2008
IEEE
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Guiding global placement with wire density
—This paper presents an efficient technique for the estimation of the routed wirelength during global placement using the wire density of the net. The proposed method identifie...
Kalliopi Tsota, Cheng-Kok Koh, Venkataramanan Bala...
ICCAD
2008
IEEE
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NTHU-Route 2.0: a fast and stable global router
—We present in this paper a fast and stable global router called NTHU-Route 2.0 that improves the solution quality and runtime of a state-of-the-art router, NTHU-Route, by the fo...
Yen-Jung Chang, Yu-Ting Lee, Ting-Chi Wang
ICCAD
2008
IEEE
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Parameterized transient thermal behavioral modeling for chip multiprocessors
In this paper, we propose a new architecture-level parameterized transient thermal behavioral modeling algorithm for emerging thermal related design and optimization problems for ...
Duo Li, Sheldon X.-D. Tan, Eduardo H. Pacheco, Mur...
ICCAD
2008
IEEE
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Advancing supercomputer performance through interconnection topology synthesis
—In today’s many-core era, the interconnection networks have been the key factor that dominates the performance of a computer system. In this paper, we propose a design flow t...
Yi Zhu, Michael Taylor, Scott B. Baden, Chung-Kuan...
ICCAD
2008
IEEE
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A low-overhead fault tolerance scheme for TSV-based 3D network on chip links
— Three-dimensional die stacking integration provides the ability to stack multiple layers of processed silicon with a large number of vertical interconnects. Through Silicon Via...
Igor Loi, Subhasish Mitra, Thomas H. Lee, Shinobu ...
ICCAD
2008
IEEE
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Performance optimization of elastic systems using buffer resizing and buffer insertion
Abstract—Buffer resizing and buffer insertion are two transformation techniques for the performance optimization of elastic systems. Different approaches for each technique have ...
Dmitry Bufistov, Jorge Júlvez, Jordi Cortad...
ICCAD
2008
IEEE
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FBT: filled buffer technique to reduce code size for VLIW processors
— VLIW processors provide higher performance and better efficiency etc. than RISC processors in specific domains like multimedia applications etc. A disadvantage is the bloated...
Talal Bonny, Jörg Henkel
ICCAD
2008
IEEE
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Layout decomposition for double patterning lithography
In double patterning lithography (DPL) layout decomposition for 45nm and below process nodes, two features must be assigned opposite colors (corresponding to different exposures)...
Andrew B. Kahng, Chul-Hong Park, Xu Xu, Hailong Ya...