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DAC
2006
ACM
15 years 12 days ago
Optimal jumper insertion for antenna avoidance under ratio upper-bound
Antenna effect may damage gate oxides during plasma-based fabrication process. The antenna ratio of total exposed antenna area to total gate oxide area is directly related to the ...
Jia Wang, Hai Zhou
DAC
2006
ACM
15 years 12 days ago
Statistical timing based on incomplete probabilistic descriptions of parameter uncertainty
Existing approaches to timing analysis under uncertainty are based on restrictive assumptions. Statistical STA techniques assume that the full probabilistic distribution of parame...
Wei-Shen Wang, Vladik Kreinovich, Michael Orshansk...
DAC
2006
ACM
15 years 12 days ago
Predicate learning and selective theory deduction for a difference logic solver
Design and verification of systems at the Register-Transfer (RT) or behavioral level require the ability to reason at higher levels of abstraction. Difference logic consists of an...
Chao Wang, Aarti Gupta, Malay K. Ganai
DAC
2006
ACM
15 years 12 days ago
Design space exploration using time and resource duality with the ant colony optimization
Design space exploration during high level synthesis is often conducted through ad-hoc probing of the solution space using some scheduling algorithm. This is not only time consumi...
Gang Wang, Wenrui Gong, Brian DeRenzi, Ryan Kastne...
DAC
2006
ACM
15 years 12 days ago
Shielding against design flaws with field repairable control logic
Correctness is a paramount attribute of any microprocessor design; however, without novel technologies to tame the increasing complexity of design verification, the amount of bugs...
Ilya Wagner, Valeria Bertacco, Todd M. Austin
DAC
2006
ACM
15 years 12 days ago
Generation of yield-aware Pareto surfaces for hierarchical circuit design space exploration
Pareto surfaces in the performance space determine the range of feasible performance values for a circuit topology in a given technology. We present a non-dominated sorting based ...
Saurabh K. Tiwary, Pragati K. Tiwary, Rob A. Ruten...
DAC
2006
ACM
15 years 12 days ago
A real time budgeting method for module-level-pipelined bus based system using bus scenarios
In designing bus based systems with parallel and pipelined architecture, it is important to derive a real time budget (a specified execution time limit) for each task of a bus bas...
Tadaaki Tanimoto, Seiji Yamaguchi, Akio Nakata, Te...
DAC
2006
ACM
15 years 12 days ago
Gate sizing: finFETs vs 32nm bulk MOSFETs
FinFET devices promise to replace traditional MOSFETs because of superior ability in controlling leakage and minimizing short channel effects while delivering a strong drive curre...
Brian Swahn, Soha Hassoun
DAC
2006
ACM
15 years 12 days ago
Efficient detection and exploitation of infeasible paths for software timing analysis
Accurate estimation of the worst-case execution time (WCET) of a program is important for real-time embedded software. Static WCET estimation involves program path analysis and ar...
Vivy Suhendra, Tulika Mitra, Abhik Roychoudhury, T...