In Deep Sub-Micron (DSM) designs, performance will depend critically on the latency of long wires. We propose a new synthesis methodology for synchronous systems that makes the de...
Luca P. Carloni, Kenneth L. McMillan, Alexander Sa...
Abstract--Thermal issues are fast becoming major design constraints in high-performance systems. Temperature variations adversely affect system reliability and prompt worst-case de...
Amit Kumar 0002, Li Shang, Li-Shiuan Peh, Niraj K....
This paper discusses a methodology used on an industrial hardware development project to validate various cache-coherence protocol components. The idea is to use a high level model...
Jesse D. Bingham, John Erickson, Gaurav Singh, Fle...
Functional verification of microprocessors is one of the most complex and expensive tasks in the current system-on-chip design process. A significant bottleneck in the validatio...
An optimization can be specified as sequential compositions of predefined transformation primitives. For each primitive, we can define soundness conditions which guarantee that th...