The number of gates on a chip is quickly growing toward and beyond the one billion mark. Keeping all the gates running at the beat of a single or a few rationally related clocks i...
Alexander Taubin, Jordi Cortadella, Luciano Lavagn...
IEEE 754r is the ongoing revision to the IEEE 754 floating point standard and a major enhancement to the standard is the addition of decimal format. This paper proposes two novel ...
Himanshu Thapliyal, Saurabh Kotiyal, M. B. Sriniva...
Future high performance microprocessor design with technology scaling beyond 90nm will pose two major challenges: (1) energy and power, and (2) parameter variations. Design practi...
Abstract - This paper describes the development of a concurrent methodology for standard cell library generation. Use of a novel physical design automation method enables a high de...
Donald G. Baltus, Thomas Varga, Robert C. Armstron...
Abstract—Continuously shrinking feature sizes cause an increasing vulnerability of digital circuits. Manufacturing failures and transient faults may tamper the functionality. Aut...