DAC
2003
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2003
ACM
As minimum feature sizes continue to shrink, patterned features have become significantly smaller than the wavelength of light used in optical lithography. As a result, the requir...
DAC
2003
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2003
ACM
Bounded Model Checking (BMC) based on Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) procedures has recently gained popularity as an alternative to BDD-based model checking techniques for finding b...
DAC
2003
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2003
ACM
Functional verification is widely acknowledged as the bottleneck in the hardware design cycle. This paper addresses one of the main challenges of simulation based verification (or...
DAC
2003
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2003
ACM
Cyclic circuits that do not hold state or oscillate are often the most convenient representation for certain functions, such as arbiters, and can easily be produced inadvertently ...
DAC
2003
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2003
ACM
As power consumption of the clock tree in modern VLSI designs tends to dominate, measures must be taken to keep it under control. This paper introduces an approach for reducing cl...
DAC
2003
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2003
ACM
Procedures for Boolean satis ability most commonly work with Conjunctive Normal Form. Powerful SAT techniques based on implications and con icts can be retained when the usual CNF...
DAC
2003
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2003
ACM
Multiple clock cycles are needed to cross the global interconnects for multi-gigahertz designs in nanometer technologies. For synchronous designs, this requires retiming and pipel...
DAC
2003
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2003
ACM
Conventionally, microarchitecture designs are mainly guided by the maximum throughput (measured as IPC) and fail to evaluate the impact of architectural decisions on the physical ...
DAC
2003
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2003
ACM
We present an algorithm that checks behavioral consistency between an ANSI-C program and a circuit given in Verilog using Bounded Model Checking. Both the circuit and the program ...
DAC
2003
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
2003
ACM
-- In this paper, we propose an energy-aware MPEG-4 FGS video streaming system with client feedback. In this client-server system, the battery-powered mobile client sends its maxim...