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ICCD
2005
IEEE
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Optimizing the Thermal Behavior of Subarrayed Data Caches
Designing temperature-aware microarchitectures for microprocessors at new technologies is becoming a critical requirement due to the exponentially increasing on-chip power density...
Johnsy K. John, Jie S. Hu, Sotirios G. Ziavras
ICCD
2005
IEEE
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Temperature-Aware Voltage Islands Architecting in System-on-Chip Design
As technology scales, power consumption and thermal effects have become challenges for system-on-chip designers. The rising on-chip temperatures can have negative impacts on SoC p...
Wei-Lun Hung, Greg M. Link, Yuan Xie, Narayanan Vi...
ICCD
2005
IEEE
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Mitigating Soft Errors in Highly Associative Cache with CAM-based Tag
Content Addressable Memories (CAM) are widely used for the tag portions in highly associative caches. Since data are not explicitly read out of tag array in CAM search, the detect...
Luong Dinh Hung, Masahiro Goshima, Shuichi Sakai
ICCD
2005
IEEE
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Architectural Considerations for Energy Efficiency
The formal analysis of parallelism and pipelining is performed on an 8-bit Add-Compare-Select element of a Viterbi decoder. The results are quantified through a study of the delay...
Hoang Q. Dao, Bart R. Zeydel, Vojin G. Oklobdzija
ICCD
2005
IEEE
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ChiYun Compact: A Novel Test Compaction Technique for Responses with Unknown Values
This paper proposes a response compactor, named ChiYun compactor, to compact scan-out responses in the presence of unknown values. By adding storage elements into an Xor network, ...
Mango Chia-Tso Chao, Seongmoon Wang, Srimat T. Cha...
ICCD
2005
IEEE
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Automatic Synthesis of Composable Sequential Quantum Boolean Circuits
This paper presents a methodology to transfer self-timed circuit specifications into sequential quantum Boolean circuits (SQBCs) and composable SQBCs (CQBCs). State graphs (SGs) a...
Li-Kai Chang, Fu-Chiung Cheng
ICCD
2005
IEEE
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State Set Management for SAT-based Unbounded Model Checking
In recent years, Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) has been shown to hold potential for Unbounded Model Checking (UMC). The success of SAT-based UMC largely relies on (i) the SAT solv...
Kameshwar Chandrasekar, Michael S. Hsiao
ICCD
2005
IEEE
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Memory Bank Predictors
Cache memories are commonly implemented through multiple memory banks to improve bandwidth and latency. The early knowledge of the data cache bank that an instruction will access ...
Stefan Bieschewski, Joan-Manuel Parcerisa, Antonio...
ICCD
2005
IEEE
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Deployment of Better Than Worst-Case Design: Solutions and Needs
The advent of nanometer feature sizes in silicon fabrication has triggered a number of new design challenges for computer designers. These challenges include design complexity and...
Todd M. Austin, Valeria Bertacco
ICCD
2005
IEEE
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Novel Low-Overhead Operand Isolation Techniques for Low-Power Datapath Synthesis
: Power consumption in datapath modules due to redundant switching is an important design concern for high-performance applications. Operand isolation schemes are adopted to reduce...
Nilanjan Banerjee, Arijit Raychowdhury, Swarup Bhu...