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DAC
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Efficient program scheduling for heterogeneous multi-core processors
Heterogeneous multicore processors promise high execution efficiency under diverse workloads, and program scheduling is critical in exploiting this efficiency. This paper present...
Jian Chen, Lizy Kurian John
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DAC
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Mode grouping for more effective generalized scheduling of dynamic dataflow applications
For a number of years, dataflow concepts have provided designers of digital signal processing systems with environments capable of expressing high-level software architectures as ...
William Plishker, Nimish Sane, Shuvra S. Bhattacha...
DAC
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
A DVS-based pipelined reconfigurable instruction memory
Energy consumption is of significant concern in battery operated embedded systems. In the processors of such systems, the instruction cache consumes a significant fraction of the ...
Zhiguo Ge, Tulika Mitra, Weng-Fai Wong
DAC
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Context-sensitive timing analysis of Esterel programs
Traditionally, synchronous languages, such as Esterel, have been compiled into hardware, where timing analysis is relatively easy. When compiled into software ? e.g., into sequent...
Lei Ju, Bach Khoa Huynh, Samarjit Chakraborty, Abh...
DAC
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Quality-driven synthesis of embedded multi-mode control systems
At runtime, an embedded control system can switch between alternative functional modes. In each mode, the system operates by using a schedule and controllers that exploit the avai...
Soheil Samii, Petru Eles, Zebo Peng, Anton Cervin
DAC
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Multicore parallel min-cost flow algorithm for CAD applications
Computational complexity has been the primary challenge of many VLSI CAD applications. The emerging multicore and manycore microprocessors have the potential to offer scalable perf...
Yinghai Lu, Hai Zhou, Li Shang, Xuan Zeng
DAC
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
NoC topology synthesis for supporting shutdown of voltage islands in SoCs
In many Systems on Chips (SoCs), the cores are clustered in to voltage islands. When cores in an island are unused, the entire island can be shutdown to reduce the leakage power c...
Ciprian Seiculescu, Srinivasan Murali, Luca Benini...
DAC
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
An SDRAM-aware router for Networks-on-Chip
In this paper, we present an NoC (Networks-on-Chip) router with an SDRAM-aware flow control. Based on a priority-based arbitration, it schedules packets to improve memory utilizat...
Wooyoung Jang, David Z. Pan
DAC
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
An adaptive scheduling and voltage/frequency selection algorithm for real-time energy harvesting systems
? In this paper we propose an adaptive scheduling and voltage/frequency selection algorithm which targets at energy harvesting systems. The proposed algorithm adjusts the processor...
Shaobo Liu, Qing Wu, Qinru Qiu
DAC
2009
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
A direct integral-equation solver of linear complexity for large-scale 3D capacitance and impedance extraction
State-of-the-art integral-equation-based solvers rely on techniques that can perform a matrix-vector multiplication in O(N) complexity. In this work, a fast inverse of linear comp...
Wenwen Chai, Dan Jiao, Cheng-Kok Koh