Reflection and automated introspection of a design in system level design frameworks are seen as necessities for the CAD tools to manipulate the designs within the tools. These f...
Frederic Doucet, Sandeep K. Shukla, Rajesh K. Gupt...
: Much effort in RTL design has been devoted to developing “push-button” types of tools. However, given the highly complex nature, and lack of control on RTL design, push-butt...
Achieving design closure is one of the biggest headaches for modern VLSI designers. This problem is exacerbated by high-level design automation tools that ignore increasingly impo...
Zhenyu (Peter) Gu, Jia Wang, Robert P. Dick, Hai Z...
Design patterns have been enthusiastically embraced in the software engineering community as well as in the web community since they capture knowledge about how and when to apply a...
Thermal design in sub-100nm technologies is one of the major challenges to the CAD community. In this paper, we first introduce the idea of temperature-aware design. We then propo...
Wei Huang, Mircea R. Stan, Kevin Skadron, Karthik ...