— Test-access mechanisms (TAMs) and test wrappers (e.g., the IEEE Standard 1500 wrapper) facilitate the modular testing of embedded cores in a core-based system-on-chip (SOC). Su...
Abstract— Microcode enables programmability of (micro) architectural structures to enhance functionality and to apply patches to an existing design. As more features get added to...
In this paper we propose a RObust Analog Design tool (ROAD) for post-tuning analog/RF circuits. Starting from an initial design derived from hand analysis or analog circuit synthe...
Xin Li, Padmini Gopalakrishnan, Yang Xu, Lawrence ...
Wire pipelining emerges as a new necessity for global wires due to increasing wire delay, shrinking clock period and growing chip size. Existing approaches on wire pipelining are ...
Application-specific instructions can significantly improve the performance, energy, and code size of configurable processors. A common approach used in the design of such instruc...