As companies move towards many-core chips, an efficient onchip communication fabric to connect these cores assumes critical importance. To address limitations to wire delay scala...
Different approaches have been proposed over the years for automatically transforming High-Level-Languages (HLL) descriptions of applications into custom hardware implementations. ...
Software or hardware data cache prefetching is an efficient way to hide cache miss latency. However effectiveness of the issued prefetches have to be monitored in order to maximi...
Off-Chip buses constitute a significant portion of the total system power in embedded systems. Past research has focused on encoding contiguous bit positions in data values to red...
Dinesh C. Suresh, Banit Agrawal, Jun Yang 0002, Wa...
Placement is a critical component of today's physical synthesis flow with tremendous impact on the final performance of VLSI designs. However, it accounts for a significant p...
Charles J. Alpert, Andrew B. Kahng, Gi-Joon Nam, S...