Clock skew scheduling has been traditionally considered as a tool for improving the clock period in a sequential circuit. Timing slack is "stolen" from fast combinationa...
An effective method for focusing optimization effort on the most important parts of a design is to examine those elements on the critical path. Traditionally, the critical path is...
Girish Venkataramani, Mihai Budiu, Tiberiu Chelcea...
The reduction of the cumbersome operations of multiplication, division, and powering to addition, subtraction and multiplication is what makes the Logarithmic Number System (LNS) ...
Panagiotis D. Vouzis, Sylvain Collange, Mark G. Ar...
This paper describes the Altera Stratix II™ logic and routing architecture. This architecture features a novel adaptive logic module (ALM) that is based on a 6-LUT, but can be p...
David M. Lewis, Elias Ahmed, Gregg Baeckler, Vaugh...
We tackle the problem of fault-free assumptions in current PLB and interconnect built-in-self-test (BIST) techniques for FPGAs. These assumptions were made in order to develop stro...