In sub-90nm technologies, more frequent hard faults pose a serious burden on processor design and yield control. In addition to manufacturing-time chip repair schemes, microarchit...
Although RTL power macromodeling is a mature research topic, it is not yet broadly accepted in the industrial environment. One of the main reasons impairing its widespread use as ...
Felipe Klein, Guido Araujo, Rodolfo Azevedo, Rober...
Designing high-performance low-power register files is of critical importance to the continuation of current performance advances in wide-issue and deeply-pipelined superscalar m...
Shuai Wang, Hongyan Yang, Jie Hu, Sotirios G. Ziav...
Power line communications (PLC) using impulse ultra wideband (UWB) in a microprocessor had been proposed for ubiquitous access of internal nodes for test/debug purposes. In this p...
The new design challenges imposed by the increasing difficulties of today’s electronic systems obligated designers to develop new methodologies. System-level design and Platfor...
Richard Maciel, Bruno Albertini, Sandro Rigo, Guid...