In a realistic design flow, circuit and system optimizations must interact with physical aspects of the design. For example, improvements in timing and power may require replacing ...
Abstract— With the increasing cost of global communication onchip, high-performance designs for data-intensive applications require architectures that distribute hardware resourc...
Soft errors, once only of concern in memories, are beginning to affect logic as well. Determining the soft error rate (SER) of a combinational circuit involves three main masking ...
Clock skew minimization is always very important in the clock tree synthesis. Due to clock gating, the clock tree may include different types of logic gates, e.g., AND gates, OR g...
—The growing trend towards using component based design approach in embedded system development requires addressing newer system engineering challenges. These systems are usually...