There is a growing need for accurate power models at the system level. Memory structures such as caches, Branch Target Buffers (BTBs), and register files occupy significant area i...
Mahesh Mamidipaka, Kamal S. Khouri, Nikil D. Dutt,...
: Static energy dissipation in cache memories will constitute an increasingly larger portion of total microprocessor energy dissipation due to nanoscale technology characteristics ...
We present a Mutation-based Validation Paradigm (MVP) technology that can handle complete high-level microprocessor implementations and is based on explicit design error modeling, ...
Modern integrated circuits (ICs) are becoming increasingly complex. The complexity makes it difficult to design, manufacture and integrate these high-performance ICs. The advent o...
With several commercial tools becoming available, the high-level synthesis of applicationspeci c integrated circuits is nding wide spread acceptance in VLSI industry today. Existi...