An effective method for focusing optimization effort on the most important parts of a design is to examine those elements on the critical path. Traditionally, the critical path is...
Girish Venkataramani, Mihai Budiu, Tiberiu Chelcea...
Many design techniques have been proposed to optimize the performance of a digital system implemented in a given technology. Each of these techniques can be advantageous in partic...
Hong-Yean Hsieh, Wentai Liu, Ralph K. Cavin III, C...
Abstract. Previously published methods for estimation of the worstcase execution time on contemporary processors with complex pipelines and multi-level memory hierarchies result in...
Dynamic correctness checking tools (a.k.a. lifeguards) can detect a wide array of correctness issues, such as memory, security, and concurrency misbehavior, in unmodified executa...
Olatunji Ruwase, Shimin Chen, Phillip B. Gibbons, ...