An effective method for focusing optimization effort on the most important parts of a design is to examine those elements on the critical path. Traditionally, the critical path is...
Girish Venkataramani, Mihai Budiu, Tiberiu Chelcea...
In hard real-time systems such as avionics, computer board level designs are typically customized to meet specific reliability and real time requirements. This paper focuses on co...
Min-Young Nam, Rodolfo Pellizzoni, Lui Sha, Richar...
transistors the design of the SoC needs to be moved to a higher level of abstraction. We need to think in processors and interconnects rather than gates and wires. We discuss the n...
Separation of concerns is one of the overarching goals of exception handling in order to keep separate normal and exceptional behaviour of a software system. In the context of a s...
Ivo Augusto Bertoncello, Marcelo Oliveira Dias, Pa...
Coarse-grain reconfigurable architectures have been a matter of intense research in the last few years. They promise to be more adequate for computational tasks due to their better...
Reiner W. Hartenstein, Michael Herz, Thomas Hoffma...