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MICRO
2010
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
2010
IEEE
Soft error reliability is increasingly becoming a first-order design concern for microprocessors, as a result of higher transistor counts, shrinking device geometries and lowering ...
DATE
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2005
IEEE
Functional verification of microprocessors is one of the most complex and expensive tasks in the current system-on-chip design process. A significant bottleneck in the validatio...
TCAD
2008
13 years 7 months ago
2008
Abstract--Thermal issues are fast becoming major design constraints in high-performance systems. Temperature variations adversely affect system reliability and prompt worst-case de...
TCAD
2008
13 years 7 months ago
2008
Power consumption has emerged as the premier and most constraining aspect in modern microprocessor and application-specific designs. Gate sizing has been shown to be one of the mos...
ISPASS
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2006
IEEE
The latest high-performance IBM PowerPC microprocessor, the POWER5 chip, poses challenges for performance model validation. The current stateof-the-art is to use simple hand-coded...