Recent improvements in design verification strive to automate error detection and greatly enhance engineers' ability to detect functional errors. However, the process of diag...
Logic simulation is a critical component of the design tool flow in modern hardware development efforts. It is used widely ? from high-level descriptions down to gate-level ones ?...
Debapriya Chatterjee, Andrew DeOrio, Valeria Berta...
Post-silicon validation has recently drawn designers' attention due to its increasing impacts on the VLSI design cycle and cost. One key feature of the post-silicon validatio...
This paper introduces Way Stealing, a simple architectural modification to a cache-based processor to increase data bandwidth to and from application-specific Instruction Set Exte...
Theo Kluter, Philip Brisk, Paolo Ienne, Edoardo Ch...
Caches are notorious for their unpredictability. It is difficult or even impossible to predict if a memory access will result in a definite cache hit or miss. This unpredictabilit...