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DAC
1997
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Frequency-Domain Compatibility in Digital Filter BIST
We examine frequency-domain issues in the design and selection of on-chip test generators for built-in self-test (BIST) of highperformance digital filters. Test-generator/circuit...
Laurence Goodby, Alex Orailoglu
DAC
1997
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
ISDL: An Instruction Set Description Language for Retargetability
Abstract—We present the Instruction Set Description Language, ISDL, a machine description language used to describe target architectures to a retargetable compiler. The features ...
George Hadjiyiannis, Silvina Hanono, Srinivas Deva...
DAC
1997
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Power Macromodeling for High Level Power Estimation
A modeling approach is presented that captures the dependence of the power dissipation of a combinational logic circuit on its input output signal switching activity. The resulting...
Subodh Gupta, Farid N. Najm
DAC
1997
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Toward Formalizing a Validation Methodology Using Simulation Coverage
The biggest obstacle in the formal verification of large designs is their very large state spaces, which cannot be handled even by techniques such as implicit state space travers...
Aarti Gupta, Sharad Malik, Pranav Ashar
DAC
1997
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
CLIP: An Optimizing Layout Generator for Two-Dimensional CMOS Cells
We present a novel technique CLIP for optimizing both the height and width of CMOS cell layouts in the two-dimensional (2D) style. CLIP is based on integer-linear programming (ILP...
Avaneendra Gupta, John P. Hayes
DAC
1997
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Tools and Methodologies for Low Power Design
-- Designing for low power has become increasingly important in a wide variety of applications, including wireless telephony, mobile computing, high performance computing, and high...
Jerry Frenkil
DAC
1997
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Multi-Way FPGA Partitioning by Fully Exploiting Design Hierarchy
In this paper, we present a new integrated synthesis and partitioning method for multiple-FPGA applications. This method rst synthesizes a design speci cation in a ne-grained way ...
Wen-Jong Fang, Allen C.-H. Wu
DAC
1997
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Zeros and Passivity of Arnoldi-Reduced-Order Models for Interconnect Networks
CAD tools and research in the area of reduced-order modeling of largelinearinterconnect networkshaveevolved from merely finding a Pad´e approximation for the given network trans...
Ibrahim M. Elfadel, David D. Ling
DAC
1997
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
COSYN: Hardware-Software Co-Synthesis of Embedded Systems
: Hardware-software co-synthesis is the process of partitioning an embedded system specification into hardware and software modules to meet performance, power and cost goals. In t...
Bharat P. Dave, Ganesh Lakshminarayana, Niraj K. J...
DAC
1997
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Electronic Component Information Exchange (ECIX)
A number of industry trends are shaping the requirements for IC and electronic equipment design. The density and complexity of circuit technologies have increased to a point where...
Donald R. Cottrell