Developing a functional prototype of a system-on-chip provides a unifying vehicle for model validation and system refinement. Keeping the prototype executable everal abstraction l...
Alexandre Chureau, Yvon Savaria, El Mostapha Aboul...
Clock tree synthesis is one of the most important and challenging problems in 3D ICs. The clock signals have to be delivered by through-silicon vias (TSVs) to different tiers with...
Chiao-Ling Lung, Yu-Shih Su, Shih-Hsiu Huang, Yiyu...
This paper studies the impact on energy efficiency and thermal behavior of design style and clock-gating style in queue and array structures. These structures are major sources of...
Yingmin Li, Mark Hempstead, Patrick Mauro, David B...
A design methodology for the synthesis of digital circuits used in high throughput digital modems is presented. The methodology spans digital modem design from the link level to t...
Patrick Schaumont, Serge Vernalde, Luc Rijnders, M...
Increasing the number of instruction queue (IQ) entries in a dynamically scheduled processor exposes more instruction-level parallelism, leading to higher performance. However, in...
Steven E. Raasch, Nathan L. Binkert, Steven K. Rei...