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Several emerging Design-for-Debug (DFD) methodologies are addressing silicon debug by making internal signal values and other data observable. Most of these methodologies require ...
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A hierarchical power distribution methodology that enables more than dozen power domains in a chip and a power management scheme using 20 power domains are described. This method ...
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2006
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The fabless model was traditionally enabled through clean interfaces – both in technical and business terms – between foundries and fabless semiconductor companies. However, w...
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2006
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Reduction of the on-chip memory size is a key issue in video codec system design. Because video codec applications involve complex algorithms that are both data-intensive and cont...
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This paper investigates methods for clock skew minimization using buffer and wire sizing. First, a technique that significantly improves solution quality and stability of sequent...
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2006
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Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is the modulation of choice for broadband wireless communications. Unfortunately, it comes at the cost of a very low energy effic...
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We present a novel application for carbon nanotube devices, implementing a high density 3-D capacitor, which can be useful for decoupling applications to reduce supply voltage var...
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Architectural decisions for DSP modules are often analyzed using high level C models. Such high-level explorations allow early examination of the algorithms and the architectural ...