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ISPD
2010
ACM
177views Hardware» more  ISPD 2010»
14 years 2 months ago
Skew management of NBTI impacted gated clock trees
NBTI (Negative Bias Temperature Instability) has emerged as the dominant failure mechanism for PMOS in nanometer IC designs. However, its impact on one of the most important compo...
Ashutosh Chakraborty, David Z. Pan
FCCM
2007
IEEE
107views VLSI» more  FCCM 2007»
14 years 2 months ago
Optimizing Logarithmic Arithmetic on FPGAs
This paper proposes optimizations of the methods and parameters used in both mathematical approximation and hardware design for logarithmic number system (LNS) arithmetic. First, ...
Haohuan Fu, Oskar Mencer, Wayne Luk
NORDICHI
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Augmenting refrigerator magnets: why less is sometimes more
In this paper we present a number of augmented refrigerator magnet concepts. The concepts are shown to be derived from previous research into the everyday use of fridge surfaces. ...
Alex S. Taylor, Laurel Swan, Rachel Eardley, Abiga...
ISCAS
2006
IEEE
145views Hardware» more  ISCAS 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
The wordlength determination problem of linear time invariant systems with multiple outputs - a geometric programming approach
This paper proposes two new methods for optimizing objectives and constraints. The GP approach is very general and hardware resources in finite wordlength implementation of it allo...
S. C. Chan, K. M. Tsui
SC
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Enabling software management for multicore caches with a lightweight hardware support
The management of shared caches in multicore processors is a critical and challenging task. Many hardware and OS-based methods have been proposed. However, they may be hardly adop...
Jiang Lin, Qingda Lu, Xiaoning Ding, Zhao Zhang, X...