The emerging three-dimensional integrated circuit (3D IC) is beneficial for various applications from both area and performance perspectives. While the general trend in processor...
Power consumption within the memory hierarchy grows in importance as on-chip data caches occupy increasingly greater die area. Among dynamic power conservation schemes, horizontal...
Self-timed circuits present an attractive solution to the problem of process variation. However, implementing selftimed combinational logic can be complex and expensive. This pape...
Abstract— With the increasing cost of global communication onchip, high-performance designs for data-intensive applications require architectures that distribute hardware resourc...
Thermal effects are becoming increasingly important during integrated circuit design. Thermal characteristics influence reliability, power consumption, cooling costs, and performan...