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DAC
2004
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Design optimizations for microprocessors at low temperature
We investigate trade-offs in microprocessor frequency and system power achievable for low temperature operation in scaled high leakage technologies by combining refrigeration with...
Arman Vassighi, Ali Keshavarzi, Siva Narendra, Ger...
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DAC
2004
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Automated design of operational transconductance amplifiers using reversed geometric programming
We present a method for designing operational amplifiers using reversed geometric programming, which is an extension of geometric programming that allows both convex and non-conve...
Johan P. Vanderhaegen, Robert W. Brodersen
DAC
2004
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Multiple constant multiplication by time-multiplexed mapping of addition chains
An important primitive in the hardware implementations of linear DSP transforms is a circuit that can multiply an input value by one of several different preset constants. We prop...
James C. Hoe, Markus Püschel, Peter Tummeltsh...
DAC
2004
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Statistical optimization of leakage power considering process variations using dual-Vth and sizing
timing analysis tools to replace standard deterministic static timing analyzers whereas [8,27] develop approaches for the statistical estimation of leakage power considering within...
Ashish Srivastava, Dennis Sylvester, David Blaauw
DAC
2004
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Automated fixed-point data-type optimization tool for signal processing and communication systems
A tool that automates the floating-point to fixed-point conversion (FFC) process for digital signal processing systems is described. The tool automatically optimizes fixed-point d...
Changchun Shi, Robert W. Brodersen
DAC
2004
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Design automation for mask programmable fabrics
Programmable circuit design has played an important role in improving design productivity over the last few decades. By imposing structure on the design, efficient automation of s...
Narendra V. Shenoy, Jamil Kawa, Raul Camposano
DAC
2004
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
A general decomposition strategy for verifying register renaming
This paper describes a strategy for verifying data-hazard correctness of out-of-order processors that implement register-renaming. We define a set of predicates to characterize re...
Hazem I. Shehata, Mark Aagaard
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DAC
2004
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Profile-based optimal intra-task voltage scheduling for hard real-time applications
This paper presents a set of comprehensive techniques for the intratask voltage scheduling problem to reduce energy consumption in hard real-time tasks of embedded systems. Based ...
Jaewon Seo, Taewhan Kim, Ki-Seok Chung
DAC
2004
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Abstraction of assembler programs for symbolic worst case execution time analysis
ion of Assembler Programs for Symbolic Worst Case Execution Time Analysis Tobias Schuele Tobias.Schuele@informatik.uni-kl.de Klaus Schneider Klaus.Schneider@informatik.uni-kl.de Re...
Klaus Schneider, Tobias Schüle
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DAC
2004
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
A method to decompose multiple-output logic functions
This paper shows a method to decompose a given multipleoutput circuit into two circuits with intermediate outputs. We use a BDD for characteristic function (BDD for CF) to represe...
Tsutomu Sasao, Munehiro Matsuura