Abstract— As technology scales to 0.13 micron and below, designs are requiring buffers to be inserted on interconnects of even moderate length for both critical paths and fixing...
Zhuo Li, Cliff C. N. Sze, Charles J. Alpert, Jiang...
Closed formed expressions for buffered interconnect delay approximation have been around for some time. However, previous approaches assume that buffers are free to be placed anyw...
Charles J. Alpert, Jiang Hu, Sachin S. Sapatnekar,...
Multicore is now the dominant processor trend, and the number of cores is rapidly increasing. The paradigm shift to multicore forces the redesign of the software stack, which incl...
Modern computer systems have been built around the assumption that persistent storage is accessed via a slow, block-based interface. However, new byte-addressable, persistent memo...
Jeremy Condit, Edmund B. Nightingale, Christopher ...