With the advent of system-on-a-chip design, many application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) now require multiple design clocks that operate asynchronously to each other. This...
Commercial servers, such as database or application servers, often attempt to improve performance via multithreading. Improper multi-threading architectures can incur contention, ...
Hardware acceleration is crucial in modern embedded system design to meet the explosive demands on performance and cost. Selected computation kernels for acceleration are usually ...
State machines are a popular method of representing a syshigh level of abstraction that enables developers to gain an overview of the system they represent and quickly understand ...
Functional validation is a major bottleneck in the current SOC design methodology. While specification-based validation techniques have proposed several promising ideas, the time ...