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ISVLSI
2008
IEEE
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A Fuzzy Approach for Variation Aware Buffer Insertion and Driver Sizing
In nanometer regime, the effects of process variations are dominating circuit performance, power and reliability of circuits. Hence, it is important to properly manage variation e...
Venkataraman Mahalingam, Nagarajan Ranganathan
GLVLSI
2008
IEEE
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A low leakage 9t sram cell for ultra-low power operation
This paper presents the design and evaluation of a new SRAM cell made of nine transistors (9T). The proposed 9T cell utilizes a scheme with separate read and write wordlines; it i...
Sheng Lin, Yong-Bin Kim, Fabrizio Lombardi
GLVLSI
2008
IEEE
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NBTI-aware flip-flop characterization and design
With the scaling down of the CMOS technologies, Negative Bias Temperature Instability (NBTI) has become a major concern due to its impact on PMOS transistor aging process and the ...
Hamed Abrishami, Safar Hatami, Behnam Amelifard, M...
GLVLSI
2008
IEEE
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Phase-based cache reconfiguration for a highly-configurable two-level cache hierarchy
Phase-based tuning methodologies specialize system parameters for each application phase of execution. Parameters are varied during execution, as opposed to remaining fixed as in ...
Ann Gordon-Ross, Jeremy Lau, Brad Calder
GLVLSI
2008
IEEE
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In-order pulsed charge recycling in off-chip data buses
This paper presents in-order pulsed charge recycling to reduce energy consumption in an off-chip data bus. The proposed technique performs charge recycling by employing three step...
Kimish Patel, Wonbok Lee, Massoud Pedram
GLVLSI
2008
IEEE
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A table-based method for single-pass cache optimization
Due to the large contribution of the memory subsystem to total system power, the memory subsystem is highly amenable to customization for reduced power/energy and/or improved perf...
Pablo Viana, Ann Gordon-Ross, Edna Barros, Frank V...
GLVLSI
2008
IEEE
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Statistical timing analysis of flip-flops considering codependent setup and hold times
Statistical static timing analysis (SSTA) plays a key role in determining performance of the VLSI circuits implemented in state-of-the-art CMOS technology. A pre-requisite for emp...
Safar Hatami, Hamed Abrishami, Massoud Pedram
GLVLSI
2008
IEEE
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FEKIS: a fast architecture-level thermal analyzer for online thermal regulation
Pu Liu, Sheldon X.-D. Tan, Wei Wu, Murli Tirumala
GLVLSI
2008
IEEE
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Coverage-driven automatic test generation for uml activity diagrams
Due to the increasing complexity of today’s embedded systems, the analysis and validation of such systems is becoming a major challenge. UML is gradually adopted in the embedded...
Mingsong Chen, Prabhat Mishra, Dhrubajyoti Kalita
GLVLSI
2008
IEEE
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Instruction cache leakage reduction by changing register operands and using asymmetric sram cells
Share of leakage in cache memories is increasing with technology scaling. Studies show that most stored bits in instruction caches are zero, and hence, asymmetric SRAM cells which...
Maziar Goudarzi, Tohru Ishihara