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DAC
1999
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Mixed-Vth (MVT) CMOS Circuit Design Methodology for Low Power Applications
Dual threshold technique has been proposed to reduce leakage power in low voltage and low power circuits by applying a high threshold voltage to some transistors in non-critical p...
Liqiong Wei, Zhanping Chen, Kaushik Roy, Yibin Ye,...
DAC
1999
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Test Generation for Gigahertz Processors Using an Automatic Functional Constraint Extractor
As the sizes of general and special purpose processors increase rapidly, generating high quality manufacturing tests which can be run at native speeds is becoming a serious proble...
Raghuram S. Tupuri, Arun Krishnamachary, Jacob A. ...
DAC
1999
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Synthesis of Low Power CMOS VLSI Circuits Using Dual Supply Voltages
Dynamic power consumed in CMOS gates goes down quadratically with the supply voltage. By maintaining a high supply voltage for gates on the critical path and by using a low supply...
Vijay Sundararajan, Keshab K. Parhi
DAC
1999
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Stand-by Power Minimization Through Simultaneous Threshold Voltage Selection and Circuit Sizing
We present a new approach for estimation and optimization of the average stand-by power dissipation in large MOS digital circuits. To overcome the complexity of state dependence i...
Supamas Sirichotiyakul, Tim Edwards, Chanhee Oh, J...
DAC
1999
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Power Conscious Fixed Priority Scheduling for Hard Real-Time Systems
Power efficient design of real-time systems based on programmable processors becomes more important as system functionality is increasingly realized through software. This paper ...
Youngsoo Shin, Kiyoung Choi
DAC
1999
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Functional Verification of the Equator MAP1000 Microprocessor
Jian Shen, Jacob A. Abraham, Dave Baker, Tony Hurs...
DAC
1999
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
ENOR: Model Order Reduction of RLC Circuits Using Nodal Equations for Efficient Factorization
ENOR is an innovative way to produce provablypassive, reciprocal, and compact representations of RLC circuits. Beginning with the nodal equations, ENOR formulates recurrence relat...
Bernard N. Sheehan
DAC
1999
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Distributed Application Development with Inferno
Distributed computing has taken a new importance in order to meet the requirements of users demanding information “anytime, anywhere.” Inferno facilitates the creation and sup...
Ravi Sharma
DAC
1999
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Hardware Reuse at the Behavioral Level
Standard interfaces for hardware reuse are currently de ned at the structural level. In contrast to this, our contribution de nes the reuse interface at the behavioral registertra...
Patrick Schaumont, Radim Cmar, Serge Vernalde, Mar...
DAC
1999
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Crosstalk Minimization Using Wire Perturbations
We study the variation of the crosstalk in a net and its neighbors when one of its trunks is perturbed, showing that the trunk’s perturbation range can be efficiently divided i...
Prashant Saxena, C. L. Liu