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2001
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We highlight several fundamental challenges to designing highperformance integrated circuits in nanometer-scale technologies (i.e. drawn feature sizes < 100 nm). Dynamic power ...
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2001
ACM
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2001
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This paper presents a method of using texture mapping with mipmapping to render a VLSI layout. Texture mapping is used to save already rasterized areas of the layout from frame to...
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2001
ACM
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2001
ACM
A software energy estimation methodology is presented that avoids explicit characterization of instruction energy consumption and predicts energy consumption to within 3% accuracy...
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2001
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16 years 7 months ago
2001
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Portable systems require long battery lifetime while still delivering high performance. Dynamic voltage scaling (DVS) algorithms reduce energy consumption by changing processor sp...
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2001
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
2001
ACM
In modern embedded systems including communication and multimedia applications, large fraction of power is consumed during memory access and data transfer. Thus, buses should be d...
169
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2001
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
2001
ACM
Communication-based design represents a formal approach to systemon-a-chip design that considers communication between components as important as the computations they perform. Ou...
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2001
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
2001
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Cost effective systems use specialization to optimize factors such as power consumption, processing throughput, flexibility or combinations thereof. Reconfigurable systems obtain ...
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2001
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
2001
ACM
This paper describes the design of two half-rate clock and data recovery circuits for optical receivers. Targeting the data rate of 10-Gb/s, the rst implementation incorporates a ...
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2001
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
2001
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Wireless communications requires a new approach to implement the algorithms for new standards. The computational demands of these standards are outstripping the ability of traditi...
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2001
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
2001
ACM
Energy consumption has become an increasingly important consideration in designing many real-time embedded systems. Variable voltage processors, if used properly, can dramatically...