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DAC
2008
ACM
16 years 8 months ago
2008
ACM
Spatially-correlated intra-die process variations result in significant core-to-core frequency variations in chip-multiprocessors. An analytical model for frequency island chip-mu...
122
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DAC
2008
ACM
16 years 8 months ago
2008
ACM
This paper presents a hybrid CNT/CMOS chemical sensor system that comprises of a carbon nanotube sensor array and a CMOS interface chip. The full system, including the sensor, con...
159
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DAC
2008
ACM
16 years 8 months ago
2008
ACM
Integrated circuits with bounded lifetimes can have many business advantages. We give some simple examples of m ods to enforce tunable expiration dates for chips using nanom reliab...
174
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DAC
2008
ACM
16 years 8 months ago
2008
ACM
Future SoCs will contain multiple cores. For workloads with significant parallelism, prior work has shown the benefit of many small, multi-threaded, scalar cores. For workloads th...
194
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DAC
2008
ACM
16 years 8 months ago
2008
ACM
A fundamental problem in timing-driven physical synthesis is the reduction of critical paths in a design. In this work, we propose a powerful new technique that moves (and can als...