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2008
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Technological advances enable modern processors to utilize increasingly larger DRAMs with rising access frequencies. This is leading to high power consumption and operating temper...
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2008
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Clock gating is the insertion of combinational logic along the clock path to prevent the unnecessary switching of registers and reduce dynamic power consumption. The conditions un...
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2008
ACM
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2008
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Spatially-correlated intra-die process variations result in significant core-to-core frequency variations in chip-multiprocessors. An analytical model for frequency island chip-mu...
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2008
ACM
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2008
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This paper presents a hybrid CNT/CMOS chemical sensor system that comprises of a carbon nanotube sensor array and a CMOS interface chip. The full system, including the sensor, con...
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2008
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2008
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Integrated circuits with bounded lifetimes can have many business advantages. We give some simple examples of m ods to enforce tunable expiration dates for chips using nanom reliab...
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2008
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16 years 7 months ago
2008
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Future SoCs will contain multiple cores. For workloads with significant parallelism, prior work has shown the benefit of many small, multi-threaded, scalar cores. For workloads th...
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2008
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2008
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A fundamental problem in timing-driven physical synthesis is the reduction of critical paths in a design. In this work, we propose a powerful new technique that moves (and can als...
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2008
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2008
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Design-time decisions can often only cover certain scenarios and fail in efficiency when hard-to-predict system scenarios occur. This drives the development of run-time adaptive s...
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2008
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2008
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With the growing number of programmable processing elements in today's MultiProcessor System-on-Chip (MPSoC) designs, the synergy required for the development of the hardware...
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2008
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2008
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Compared with on-chip routers, the existing commercial tools for off-chip routing have a much lower routability and often result in a large number of unrouted nets for manual rout...