DAC
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
We develop a projected-subgradient primal-dual Lagrange optimization for global placement, that can be instantiated with a variety of interconnect models. It decomposes the origin...
DAC
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
Supply voltage scaling has stagnated in recent technology nodes, leading to so-called “dark silicon.” In this paper, we investigate the limit of voltage scaling together with ...
DAC
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
Much recent research [8, 6, 7] suggests significant power and energy benefits of relaxing correctness constraints in future processors. Such processors with relaxed constraints ...
DAC
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
Loop pipelining is a critical transformation in behavioral synthesis. It is crucial to producing hardware designs with acceptable latency and throughput. However, it is a complex ...
DAC
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
Full-chip thermal monitoring is an important and challenging issue in today’s microprocessor design. In this paper, we propose a new information-theoretic framework to quantitat...
DAC
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
A scalable architecture to design high radix switch fabric is presented. It uses circuit techniques to re-use existing input and output data buses and switching logic for fabric c...
DAC
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
In this paper we introduce Chisel, a new hardware construction language that supports advanced hardware design using highly parameterized generators and layered domain-specific h...
DAC
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
Due to the breakdown of Dennardian scaling, the percentage of a silicon chip that can switch at full frequency is dropping exponentially with each process generation. This utiliza...
DAC
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
Diverse IP cores are integrated on a modern system-on-chip and share resources. Off-chip memory bandwidth is often the scarcest resource and requires careful allocation. Two of t...
DAC
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
2012
ACM
Caches play an important role in embedded systems by bridging the performance gap between high speed processors and slow memory. At the same time, caches introduce imprecision in ...