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TVLSI
2008
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Novel Probabilistic Combinational Equivalence Checking
Exact approaches to combinational equivalence checking, such as automatic test pattern generation-based, binary decision diagrams (BDD)-based, satisfiability-based, and hybrid appr...
Shih-Chieh Wu, Chun-Yao Wang, Yung-Chih Chen
TVLSI
2008
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A Design Flow for Architecture Exploration and Implementation of Partially Reconfigurable Processors
During the last years, the growing application complexity, design, and mask costs have compelled embedded system designers to increasingly consider partially reconfigurable applica...
Kingshuk Karuri, Anupam Chattopadhyay, Xiaolin Che...
TVLSI
2008
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Outer Loop Pipelining for Application Specific Datapaths in FPGAs
Most hardware compilers apply loop pipelining to increase the parallelism achieved, but pipelining is restricted to the only innermost level in a nested loop. In this work we exten...
Kieron Turkington, Turkington A. Constantinides, K...
TVLSI
2008
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Automatic Constraint Based Test Generation for Behavioral HDL Models
The proposed work involves conversion of a given circuit model into a set of constraints and employing constraint solvers to generate tests for it. The method is demonstrated for ...
Siva Kumar Sastry Hari, Vishnu Vardhan Reddy Konda...
TVLSI
2008
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Robust Concurrent Online Testing of Network-on-Chip-Based SoCs
Lifetime concerns for complex systems-on-a-chip (SoC) designs due to decreasing levels in reliability motivate the development of solutions to ensure reliable operation. A precurso...
Praveen Bhojwani, Rabi N. Mahapatra
TVLSI
2008
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GOP-Level Dynamic Thermal Management in MPEG-2 Decoding
In this paper, we present a dynamic thermal management (DTM) algorithm based on (i) accurate estimation of the workload of frames in a group of pictures (GOP) in an MPEG-2 video st...
Wonbok Lee, Kimish Patel, Massoud Pedram
TVLSI
2008
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A Refinement-Based Compositional Reasoning Framework for Pipelined Machine Verification
Abstract--We present a refinement-based compositional framework for showing that pipelined machines satisfy the same safety and liveness properties as their non-pipelined specifica...
Panagiotis Manolios, Sudarshan K. Srinivasan
TVLSI
2008
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Body Bias Voltage Computations for Process and Temperature Compensation
With continued scaling into the sub-90nm regime, the role of process, voltage and temperature (PVT) variations on the performance of VLSI circuits has become extremely important. T...
Sanjay V. Kumar, Chris H. Kim, Sachin S. Sapatneka...
TVLSI
2008
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Simulation Bounds for Equivalence Verification of Polynomial Datapaths Using Finite Ring Algebra
Namrata Shekhar, Priyank Kalla, M. Brandon Meredit...
TVLSI
2008
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A Design-Specific and Thermally-Aware Methodology for Trading-Off Power and Performance in Leakage-Dominant CMOS Technologies
As CMOS technology scales deeper into the nanometer regime, factors such as leakage power and chip temperature emerge as critically important concerns for high-performance VLSI des...
Sheng-Chih Lin, Kaustav Banerjee