ICCD
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2007
IEEE
In this paper, we propose a novel on-chip voltage drop reduction technique for on-chip power delivery networks of VLSI systems in the presence of variational leakage current sourc...
ICCD
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2007
IEEE
Floating-point division is an important operation in scientific computing and multimedia applications. This paper presents and compares two division algorithms for an x86 micropro...
ICCD
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2007
IEEE
DSM and nanometer VLSI designs are subject to an increasingly significant thermal effect on VLSI circuit lifetime and performance variation, which can be effectively subdued by V...
ICCD
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2007
IEEE
This paper presents a methodology to generate a hierarchy of power models for power estimation of custom hardware IP blocks, enabling a trade-off between power estimation accuracy...
ICCD
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2007
IEEE
One of the biggest challenges in 3D stacked IC design is heat dissipation. Incorporating thermal vias is a promising method for reducing the temperatures of 3D ICs. The bonding st...
ICCD
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2007
IEEE
ICCD
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2007
IEEE
This paper proposes an efficient analysis flow and an algorithm to identify the worst case noise for power networks with multiple clock domains. First, we apply the Laplace transf...
ICCD
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2007
IEEE
Considering the impact of the popular energy management technique Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS) on system reliability, the Reliability-Aware Power Management (RA-PM...
ICCD
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2007
IEEE
Microarchitectural simulation is orders of magnitude slower than native execution. As more elements are accurately modeled, problems associated with slow simulation are further ex...
ICCD
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2007
IEEE
We present new techniques for explicit constraint satisfaction in the incremental placement process. Our algorithm employs a Lagrangian Relaxation (LR) type approach in the analyt...