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DAC
1996
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Design Considerations and Tools for Low-voltage Digital System Design
Aggressive voltage scaling to 1V and below through technology, circuit, and architecture optimization has been proven to be the key to ultra low-power design. The key technology t...
Anantha Chandrakasan, Isabel Yang, Carlin Vieri, D...
DAC
1996
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
State Reduction Using Reversible Rules
We reduce the state explosion problem in automatic verification of finite-state systems by automatically collapsing subgraphs of the aph into abstract states. The key idea of the ...
C. Norris Ip, David L. Dill
DAC
1996
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Techniques for Verifying Superscalar Microprocessors
Burch and Dill [3] described an automatic method for verifying a pipelined processor against its instruction setarchitecture(ISA). We describethree techniquesfor improving this me...
Jerry R. Burch
DAC
1996
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Bit-Level Analysis of an SRT Divider Circuit
Abstract-- It is impractical to verify multiplier or divider circuits entirely at the bit-level using ordered Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs), because the BDD representations for t...
Randal E. Bryant
DAC
1996
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Experience in Designing a Large-scale Multiprocessor using Field-Programmable Devices and Advanced CAD Tools
This paper provides a case study that shows how a demanding application stresses the capabilities of today's CAD tools, especially in the integration of products from multipl...
Stephen Dean Brown, Naraig Manjikian, Zvonko G. Vr...
DAC
1996
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Power Estimation of Cell-Based CMOS Circuits
PPP is a Web-based simulation and synthesis environment for low-power design. In this paper we describe the gate-level simulation engine of PPP, that achieves accuracy always with...
Alessandro Bogliolo, Luca Benini, Bruno Ricc&ograv...
DAC
1996
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
A Hardware/Software Partitioning Algorithm for Designing Pipelined ASIPs with Least Gate Counts
Abstract -- This paper introduces a new HW/SW partitioning algorithm used in automating the instruction set processor design for pipelined ASIP (Application Specific Integrated Pro...
Nguyen-Ngoc Bình, Masaharu Imai, Akichika S...
DAC
1996
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Combined Control Flow Dominated and Data Flow Dominated High-Level Synthesis
This paper presents the design of a Videophone CoderDecoder Motion Estimator using two High-Level Synthesis tools. Indeed, the combination of a Control Flow Dominated part (comple...
Elisabeth Berrebi, Polen Kission, Serge Vernalde, ...
DAC
1996
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Functional Verification Methodology of Chameleon Processor
- Functional verification of the new generation microprocessor developed by SGS-THOMSON Microelectronics makes extensive use of advanced technologies. This paper presents a global ...
Françoise Casaubieilh, Anthony McIsaac, Mik...