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...
Application profiling ? the process of monitoring an application to determine the frequency of execution within specific regions ? is an essential step within the design process f...
Energy consumption is of significant concern in battery operated embedded systems. In the processors of such systems, the instruction cache consumes a significant fraction of the ...
Extensive software-based simulation continues to be the mainstream methodology for functional verification of designs. To optimize the use of limited simulation resources, coverag...
Onur Guzey, Li-C. Wang, Jeremy R. Levitt, Harry Fo...
Since process and environmental variations can no longer be ignored in high-performance microprocessor designs, it is necessary to develop techniques for computing the sensitiviti...
Sanjay V. Kumar, Chandramouli V. Kashyap, Sachin S...