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IJCV
2012
13 years 9 months ago
2012
Abstract Computer vision is full of problems elegantly expressed in terms of energy minimization. We characterize a class of energies with hierarchical costs and propose a novel hi...
544
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DAC
2012
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2012
ACM
We develop a projected-subgradient primal-dual Lagrange optimization for global placement, that can be instantiated with a variety of interconnect models. It decomposes the origin...
418
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DAC
2012
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2012
ACM
Supply voltage scaling has stagnated in recent technology nodes, leading to so-called “dark silicon.” In this paper, we investigate the limit of voltage scaling together with ...
450
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DAC
2012
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2012
ACM
Much recent research [8, 6, 7] suggests significant power and energy benefits of relaxing correctness constraints in future processors. Such processors with relaxed constraints ...
444
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DAC
2012
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2012
ACM
Loop pipelining is a critical transformation in behavioral synthesis. It is crucial to producing hardware designs with acceptable latency and throughput. However, it is a complex ...
508
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DAC
2012
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2012
ACM
Full-chip thermal monitoring is an important and challenging issue in today’s microprocessor design. In this paper, we propose a new information-theoretic framework to quantitat...
414
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DAC
2012
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2012
ACM
A scalable architecture to design high radix switch fabric is presented. It uses circuit techniques to re-use existing input and output data buses and switching logic for fabric c...
417
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DAC
2012
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2012
ACM
In this paper we introduce Chisel, a new hardware construction language that supports advanced hardware design using highly parameterized generators and layered domain-specific h...
435
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DAC
2012
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2012
ACM
Due to the breakdown of Dennardian scaling, the percentage of a silicon chip that can switch at full frequency is dropping exponentially with each process generation. This utiliza...
410
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DAC
2012
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
2012
ACM
Diverse IP cores are integrated on a modern system-on-chip and share resources. Off-chip memory bandwidth is often the scarcest resource and requires careful allocation. Two of t...