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TCAD
2011
13 years 2 months ago
Using Launch-on-Capture for Testing Scan Designs Containing Synchronous and Asynchronous Clock Domains
—This paper presents a hybrid automatic test pattern generation (ATPG) technique using the staggered launch-oncapture (LOC) scheme followed by the one-hot LOC scheme for testing ...
Shianling Wu, Laung-Terng Wang, Xiaoqing Wen, Zhig...
TCAD
2011
13 years 2 months ago
GRIP: Global Routing via Integer Programming
Abstract—This work introduces GRIP, a global routing technique via integer programming. GRIP optimizes wirelength and via cost directly without going through a traditional layer ...
Tai-Hsuan Wu, Azadeh Davoodi, Jeffrey T. Linderoth
TC
2011
13 years 2 months ago
Energy Reduction in Consolidated Servers through Memory-Aware Virtual Machine Scheduling
—Increasing energy consumption in server consolidation environments leads to high maintenance costs for data centers. Main memory, no less than processor, is a major energy consu...
Jae-Wan Jang, Myeongjae Jeon, Hyo-Sil Kim, Heeseun...
TC
2011
13 years 2 months ago
Improved Division by Invariant Integers
—This paper considers the problem of dividing a two-word integer by a single-word integer, together with a few extensions and applications. Due to lack of efficient division ins...
Niels Moller, Torbjörn Granlund
TC
2011
13 years 2 months ago
Complexity of Data Collection, Aggregation, and Selection for Wireless Sensor Networks
— Processing the gathered information efficiently is a key functionality for wireless sensor networks. In this article, we study the time complexity, message complexity (number ...
Xiang-Yang Li, Yajun Wang, Yu Wang
TC
2011
13 years 2 months ago
Performing Arithmetic Operations on Round-to-Nearest Representations
—During any composite computation, there is a constant need for rounding intermediate results before they can participate in further processing. Recently, a class of number repre...
Peter Kornerup, Jean-Michel Muller, Adrien Panhale...
TC
2011
13 years 2 months ago
Exact and Approximated Error of the FMA
Abstract—The fused multiply accumulate-add (FMA) instruction, specified by the IEEE 754-2008 Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic, eases some calculations, and is already avai...
Sylvie Boldo, Jean-Michel Muller
TC
2011
13 years 2 months ago
Maximizing Spare Utilization by Virtually Reorganizing Faulty Cache Lines
—Aggressive technology scaling to 45nm and below introduces serious reliability challenges to the design of microprocessors. Since a large fraction of chip area is devoted to on-...
Amin Ansari, Shantanu Gupta, Shuguang Feng, Scott ...
TC
2011
13 years 2 months ago
An Architecture for Fault-Tolerant Computation with Stochastic Logic
—Mounting concerns over variability, defects and noise motivate a new approach for digital circuitry: stochastic logic, that is to say, logic that operates on probabilistic signa...
Weikang Qian, Xin Li, Marc D. Riedel, Kia Bazargan...