This paper addresses the problem of estimating cost and development effort of a system, starting from its complete or partial high-level description. In addition, some modificatio...
William Fornaciari, Fabio Salice, Umberto Bondi, E...
A method is described for synthesizing asynchronous circuits based on the Handshake Circuit paradigm but employing a data-driven, rather than a control-driven, style. This approach...
Sam Taylor, Doug A. Edwards, Luis A. Plana, Luis A...
Power delivery is a growing reliability concern in microprocessors as the industry moves toward feature-rich, powerhungrier designs. To battle the ever-aggravating power consumpti...
Fayez Mohamood, Michael B. Healy, Sung Kyu Lim, Hs...
In 1996, about 600 million IC-cards were manufactured worldwide. Due to very small die sizes (max. 25 mm2 ) smartcards encounter more severe restrictions than conventional coproces...
Policing of incoming packets can produce very high load in worst-case situations on a receiving computer. In realtime systems, resources must be allocated for such worstcase situa...