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2005
IEEE
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Instruction Set Extensions for Reed-Solomon Encoding and Decoding
Reed-Solomon codes are an important class of error correcting codes used in many applications related to communications and digital storage. The fundamental operations in Reed-Sol...
Suman Mamidi, Daniel Iancu, Andrei Iancu, Michael ...
ASAP
2005
IEEE
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Expression Synthesis in Process Networks generated by LAURA
The COMPAAN/LAURA [18] tool chain maps nested loop applications written in Matlab onto reconfigurable platforms, such as FPGAs. COMPAAN rewrites the original Matlab application a...
Claudiu Zissulescu, Bart Kienhuis, Ed F. Depretter...
ASAP
2005
IEEE
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Via-Aware Global Routing for Good VLSI Manufacturability and High Yield
CAD tools have become more and more important for integrated circuit (IC) design since a complicated system can be designed into a single chip, called system-on-a-chip (SOC), in w...
Yang Yang, Tong Jing, Xianlong Hong, Yu Hu, Qi Zhu...
ASAP
2005
IEEE
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Decimal Floating-Point Square Root Using Newton-Raphson Iteration
With continued reductions in feature size, additional functionality may be added to future microprocessors to boost the performance of important application domains. Due to growth...
Liang-Kai Wang, Michael J. Schulte
ASAP
2005
IEEE
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The Midlifekicker Microarchitecture Evaluation Metric
We introduce the midlifekicker metric for evaluating microarchitectures mostly during the design process. We assume a microarchitecture designed at a time T-1 and estimate if a ne...
Stamatis Vassiliadis, Leonel Sousa, Georgi Gaydadj...
ASAP
2005
IEEE
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Performance Comparison of SIMD Implementations of the Discrete Wavelet Transform
This paper focuses on SIMD implementations of the 2D discrete wavelet transform (DWT). The transforms considered are Daubechies’ real-to-real method of four coefficients (Daub-...
Asadollah Shahbahrami, Ben H. H. Juurlink, Stamati...
ASAP
2005
IEEE
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Using Symbolic Feasibility Tests during Design Space Exploration of Heterogeneous Multi-Processor Systems
The task of automatic design space exploration of heterogeneous multi-processor systems is often tackled with Evolutionary Algorithms. In this paper, we propose a novel approach i...
Thomas Schlichter, Christian Haubelt, Frank Hannig...
ASAP
2005
IEEE
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Using TLM for Exploring Bus-based SoC Communication Architectures
As billion transistor System-on-chips (SoC) become commonplace and design complexity continues to increase, designers are faced with the daunting task of meeting escalating design...
Sudeep Pasricha, Mohamed Ben-Romdhane