The need to perform early design studies that combine architectural simulation with power estimation has become critical as power has become a design constraint whose importance h...
Nam Sung Kim, Taeho Kgil, Valeria Bertacco, Todd M...
In recent years, due to rapid advances in VLSI manufacturing technology capable of packing more and more devices and wires on a chip, crosstalk has emerged as a serious problem af...
Traditional pulldown comparators that are used to implement associativeaddressing logic in superscalar microprocessors dissipate energy on a mismatch in any bit position in the co...
Dmitry Ponomarev, Gurhan Kucuk, Oguz Ergin, Kanad ...
Enabled by the continuous advancement in fabrication technology, present day synchronous microprocessors include more than 100 million transistors and have clock speeds well in ex...
This paper studies the optimality, scalability and stability of stateof-the-art partitioning and placement algorithms. We present algorithms to construct two classes of benchmarks...