SBCCI
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
The designer of a system on a chip (SoC) that connects IP cores through a network on chip (NoC) needs methods to support application performance evaluation. Two key aspects these ...
SBCCI
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
The Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO) is a fundamental block in RF IC architectures. Today’s wireless communication applications do require a high level of performances from s...
SBCCI
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
Code compression, initially conceived as an effective technique to reduce code size in embedded systems, today also brings advantages in terms of performance and energy consumpti...
SBCCI
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
Temperature sensors and voltage references require cells that generate both PTAT (Proportional To Absolute Temperature) and NTC (Negative Temperature Coefficient) voltages. We pre...
SBCCI
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
Gate oxide tunneling current Igate and sub-threshold current Isub dominate the leakage of designs. The latter depends on threshold voltage Vth while Igate vary with the thickness ...
SBCCI
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
In this work the design of radiofrequency CMOS circuit blocks in the 910MHz ISM band, while biasing the MOS transistor in the moderate inversion region, is analyzed. An amplifier ...
SBCCI
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
Higher integration densities, smaller feature lengths, and other technology advances, as well as architectural evolution, have made microprocessor cores exceptionally complex. Cur...
SBCCI
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
In this paper it will be demonstrated, from the theory and measurements, that series-parallel (SP) mirrors allow building current copiers with copy factors of thousands, without d...
SBCCI
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
Flow control mechanisms in Network-on-Chip (NoC) architectures are critical for fast packet propagation across the network and for low idling of network resources. Buffer manageme...
SBCCI
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
The physical implementation of cryptographic algorithms may leak to some attacker security information by the side channel data, as power consumption, timing, temperature or elect...