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DAC
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
An Embedded Multi-resolution AMBA Trace Analyzer for Microprocessor-based SoC Integration
The bus tracing is used to catch related signals for further investigation and analysis. However, the trace size of cycleaccurate tracing is large and the trace cycle is shallow u...
Chung-Fu Kao, Ing-Jer Huang, Chi-Hung Lin
DAC
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Characterization and Estimation of Circuit Reliability Degradation under NBTI using On-Line IDDQ Measurement
Negative bias temperature instability (NBTI) in MOSFETs is one of the major reliability challenges in nano-scale technology. This paper presents an efficient technique to characte...
Kunhyuk Kang, Kee-Jong Kim, Ahmad E. Islam, Muhamm...
DAC
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Off-chip Decoupling Capacitor Allocation for Chip Package Co-Design
Off-chip decoupling capacitor (decap) allocation is a demanding task during package and chip codesign. Existing approaches can not handle large numbers of I/O counts and large num...
Hao Yu, Chunta Chu, Lei He
DAC
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Alembic: An Efficient Algorithm for CNF Preprocessing
Satisfiability (SAT) solvers often benefit from a preprocessing of the formula to be decided. For formulae in conjunctive normal form (CNF), subsumed clauses may be removed or par...
HyoJung Han, Fabio Somenzi
DAC
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Trusted Hardware: Can It Be Trustworthy?
Processing and storage of confidential or critical information is an every day occurrence in computing systems. The trustworthiness of computing devices has become an important co...
Cynthia E. Irvine, Karl N. Levitt
DAC
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Voltage-Frequency Island Partitioning for GALS-based Networks-on-Chip
Due to high levels of integration and complexity, the design of multi-core SoCs has become increasingly challenging. In particular, energy consumption and distributing a single gl...
Ümit Y. Ogras, Diana Marculescu, Puru Choudha...
DAC
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Energy-Aware Data Compression for Multi-Level Cell (MLC) Flash Memory
We discover significant value-dependent programming energy variations in multi-level cell (MLC) flash memories, and introduce an energy-aware data compression method that minimize...
Yongsoo Joo, Youngjin Cho, Donghwa Shin, Naehyuck ...
DAC
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
An Efficient Mechanism for Performance Optimization of Variable-Latency Designs
In many designs, the worst-case-delay path may never be exercised or may be exercised infrequently. For those designs, a strategy of optimizing a circuit for the worst-case condit...
Yu-Shih Su, Da-Chung Wang, Shih-Chieh Chang, Malgo...
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DAC
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
An Integer Linear Programming Based Routing Algorithm for Flip-Chip Design
The flip-chip package provides a high chip-density solution to the demand for more I/O pads of VLSI designs. In this paper, we present the first routing algorithm in the literatur...
Jia-Wei Fang, Chin-Hsiung Hsu, Yao-Wen Chang