Many embedded real world applications are intellectual property, and vendors hesitate to share these proprietary applications with computer architects and designers. This poses a ...
Ajay Joshi, Lieven Eeckhout, Robert H. Bell Jr., L...
Microprocessor clock frequency has improved by nearly 40% annually over the past decade. This improvement has been provided, in equal measure, by smaller technologies and deeper p...
M. S. Hrishikesh, Doug Burger, Stephen W. Keckler,...
This paper proposes Noise-Direct, a design methodology for power integrity aware floorplanning, using microarchitectural feedback to guide module placement. Stringent power constr...
Fayez Mohamood, Michael B. Healy, Sung Kyu Lim, Hs...
Thermal design in sub-100nm technologies is one of the major challenges to the CAD community. In this paper, we first introduce the idea of temperature-aware design. We then propo...
Wei Huang, Mircea R. Stan, Kevin Skadron, Karthik ...
The advent of nanometer feature sizes in silicon fabrication has triggered a number of new design challenges for computer designers. These challenges include design complexity and...