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DAC
1996
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Design Considerations and Tools for Low-voltage Digital System Design
Aggressive voltage scaling to 1V and below through technology, circuit, and architecture optimization has been proven to be the key to ultra low-power design. The key technology t...
Anantha Chandrakasan, Isabel Yang, Carlin Vieri, D...
DAC
1996
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
State Reduction Using Reversible Rules
We reduce the state explosion problem in automatic verification of finite-state systems by automatically collapsing subgraphs of the aph into abstract states. The key idea of the ...
C. Norris Ip, David L. Dill
DAC
1996
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Techniques for Verifying Superscalar Microprocessors
Burch and Dill [3] described an automatic method for verifying a pipelined processor against its instruction setarchitecture(ISA). We describethree techniquesfor improving this me...
Jerry R. Burch
DAC
1996
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Bit-Level Analysis of an SRT Divider Circuit
Abstract-- It is impractical to verify multiplier or divider circuits entirely at the bit-level using ordered Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs), because the BDD representations for t...
Randal E. Bryant
DAC
1996
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Experience in Designing a Large-scale Multiprocessor using Field-Programmable Devices and Advanced CAD Tools
This paper provides a case study that shows how a demanding application stresses the capabilities of today's CAD tools, especially in the integration of products from multipl...
Stephen Dean Brown, Naraig Manjikian, Zvonko G. Vr...
DAC
1996
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Power Estimation of Cell-Based CMOS Circuits
PPP is a Web-based simulation and synthesis environment for low-power design. In this paper we describe the gate-level simulation engine of PPP, that achieves accuracy always with...
Alessandro Bogliolo, Luca Benini, Bruno Ricc&ograv...
DAC
1996
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
A Hardware/Software Partitioning Algorithm for Designing Pipelined ASIPs with Least Gate Counts
Abstract -- This paper introduces a new HW/SW partitioning algorithm used in automating the instruction set processor design for pipelined ASIP (Application Specific Integrated Pro...
Nguyen-Ngoc Bình, Masaharu Imai, Akichika S...
DAC
1996
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Combined Control Flow Dominated and Data Flow Dominated High-Level Synthesis
This paper presents the design of a Videophone CoderDecoder Motion Estimator using two High-Level Synthesis tools. Indeed, the combination of a Control Flow Dominated part (comple...
Elisabeth Berrebi, Polen Kission, Serge Vernalde, ...
DAC
1996
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Functional Verification Methodology of Chameleon Processor
- Functional verification of the new generation microprocessor developed by SGS-THOMSON Microelectronics makes extensive use of advanced technologies. This paper presents a global ...
Françoise Casaubieilh, Anthony McIsaac, Mik...