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ICES
2000
Springer
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Dynamic Optimisation of Non-linear Feed Forward Circuits
Abstract. An evolutionary algorithm is used to evolve a digital circuit which computes a simple hash function mapping a 16-bit address space into an 8-bit one. The target technolog...
Ernesto Damiani, Valentino Liberali, Andrea Tettam...
ICES
2000
Springer
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Evolving Cellular Automata for Self-Testing Hardware
Testing is a key issue in the design and production of digital circuits: the adoption of BIST (Built-In Self-Test) techniques is increasingly popular, but requires efficient algori...
Fulvio Corno, Matteo Sonza Reorda, Giovanni Squill...
ICES
2000
Springer
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Towards a Silicon Primordial Soup: A Fast Approach to Hardware Evolution with a VLSI Transistor Array
A new system for research on hardware evolution of analog VLSI circuits is proposed. The heart of the system is a CMOS chip providing an array of 16
Jörg Langeheine, Simon Fölling, Karlhein...
ICECCS
2000
IEEE
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Evaluation of Three Specification-Based Testing Criteria
This paper compares three specification-based testing criteria using Mathur and Wong's PROBSUBSUMES measure. The three criteria are specification-mutation coverage, full pred...
Aynur Abdurazik, Paul Ammann, Wei Ding 0003, A. Je...
ICCD
2000
IEEE
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Source-Level Transformations for Improved Formal Verification
A major obstacle to widespread acceptance of formal verification is the difficulty in using the tools effectively. Although learning the basic syntax and operation of a formal ver...
Brian D. Winters, Alan J. Hu
ICCAD
2000
IEEE
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Slope Propagation in Static Timing Analysis
ct Static timing analysis has traditionally used the PERT method for identifying the critical path of a digital circuit. Due to the influence of the slope of a signal at a particul...
David Blaauw, Vladimir Zolotov, Savithri Sundaresw...
ICCAD
1998
IEEE
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Polynomial methods for component matching and verification
James Smith, Giovanni De Micheli
ICCAD
1998
IEEE
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Reencoding for cycle-time minimization under fixed encoding length
This paper presents efficient reencoding and resynthesis algorithms for cycle-time minimization of multilevel implementations of synchronous finite state machines (FSMs) under a fi...
Balakrishnan Iyer, Maciej J. Ciesielski
ICCAD
1998
IEEE
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Lazy transition systems: application to timing optimization of asynchronous circuits
This paper introduces Lazy Transitions Systems (LzTSs). The notion of laziness explicitly distinguishes between the enabling and the firing of an event in a transition system. LzT...
Jordi Cortadella, Michael Kishinevsky, Alex Kondra...
FPL
2000
Springer
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Efficient Self-Reconfigurable Implementations Using On-chip Memory
abstract the dynamic nature of a computation to embedded data memory (which is accessible on-chip). The dynamic nature of a computation corresponds to the dynamic features of its i...
Sameer Wadhwa, Andreas Dandalis