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MICRO
2003
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
Fast Secure Processor for Inhibiting Software Piracy and Tampering
Due to the widespread software piracy and virus attacks, significant efforts have been made to improve security for computer systems. For stand-alone computers, a key observation...
Jun Yang 0002, Youtao Zhang, Lan Gao
ISCAS
2003
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
An efficient transistor optimizer for custom circuits
We present an equation-based transistor size optimizer that minimizes delay of custom circuits. Our method uses static timing analysis to find the critical paths and numerical met...
Xiao Yan Yu, Vojin G. Oklobdzija, William W. Walke...
FPL
2004
Springer
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14 years 4 months ago
Second Order Function Approximation Using a Single Multiplication on FPGAs
Abstract. This paper presents a new scheme for the hardware evaluation of elementary functions, based on a piecewise second order minimax approximation. The novelty is that this ev...
Jérémie Detrey, Florent de Dinechin
ISPASS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Critical path analysis of the TRIPS architecture
Fast, accurate, and effective performance analysis is essential for the design of modern processor architectures and improving application performance. Recent trends toward highly...
Ramadass Nagarajan, Xia Chen, Robert G. McDonald, ...
ESCIENCE
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
A Dynamic Critical Path Algorithm for Scheduling Scientific Workflow Applications on Global Grids
Effective scheduling is a key concern for the execution of performance driven Grid applications. In this paper, we propose a Dynamic Critical Path (DCP) based workflow scheduling ...
Mustafizur Rahman 0003, Srikumar Venugopal, Rajkum...
DATE
2008
IEEE
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14 years 6 months ago
Instruction Set Extension Exploration in Multiple-Issue Architecture
To satisfy high-performance computing demand in modern embedded devices, current embedded processor architectures provide designer with possibility either to define customized ins...
I-Wei Wu, Zhi-Yuan Chen, Jean Jyh-Jiun Shann, Chun...
ISPD
2009
ACM
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14 years 6 months ago
Synthesizing a representative critical path for post-silicon delay prediction
Several approaches to post-silicon adaptation require feedback from a replica of the nominal critical path, whose variations are intended to reflect those of the entire circuit a...
Qunzeng Liu, Sachin S. Sapatnekar