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2003
IEEE
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Dynamic Functional Unit Assignment for Low Power
A hardware method for functional unit assignment is presented, based on the principle that a functional unit’s power consumption is approximated by the switching activity of its...
Steve Haga, Natasha Reeves, Rajeev Barua, Diana Ma...
DATE
2003
IEEE
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Dynamic Conditional Branch Balancing during the High-Level Synthesis of Control-Intensive Designs
We present two novel strategies to increase the scope for application of speculative code motions: (1) Adding scheduling steps dynamically during scheduling to conditional branche...
Sumit Gupta, Nikil D. Dutt, Rajesh K. Gupta, Alexa...
DATE
2003
IEEE
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Circuit and Platform Design Challenges in Technologies beyond 90nm
There are already a huge number of problems for silicon designers and it is likely to just get worse. Many of these problems are technical associated with shrinking geometries and...
Bill Grundmann, Rajesh Galivanche, Sandip Kundu
DATE
2003
IEEE
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Combined FDTD/Macromodel Simulation of Interconnected Digital Devices
Behavioral models of digital devices based on Radial Basis Functions (RBF) are incorporated into a Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) solver for full-wave analysis of interconne...
Stefano Grivet-Talocia, Igor S. Stievano, Ivan A. ...
DATE
2003
IEEE
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Refinement of Mixed-Signal Systems with SystemC
Christoph Grimm, Christian Meise, Wilhelm Heupke, ...
DATE
2003
IEEE
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Comparing Analytical Modeling with Simulation for Network Processors: A Case Study
Programming network processors remains an art due to the variety of different network processor architectures and due to little support to reason and explore implementations on su...
Matthias Gries, Chidamber Kulkarni, Christian Saue...
DATE
2003
IEEE
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A New Simulation Technique for Periodic Small-Signal Analysis
A new numerical technique for periodic small signal analysis based on harmonic balance method is proposed. Special-purpose numerical procedures based on Krylov subspace methods ar...
Mark M. Gourary, Sergey G. Rusakov, Sergey L. Ulya...
DATE
2003
IEEE
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Approximation Approach for Timing Jitter Characterization in Circuit Simulators
A new computational concept of timing jitter is proposed that is suitable for exploitation in circuit simulators. It is based on the approximation of computed noise characteristic...
Mark M. Gourary, Sergey G. Rusakov, Sergey L. Ulya...
DATE
2003
IEEE
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Test Data Compression: The System Integrator's Perspective
Test data compression (TDC) is a promising low-cost methodology for System-on-a-Chip (SOC) test. This is due to the fact that it can reduce not only the volume of test data but al...
Paul Theo Gonciari, Bashir M. Al-Hashimi, Nicola N...
DATE
2003
IEEE
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A Flexible Object-Oriented Software Architecture for Smart Wireless Communication Devices
This paper describes the design considerations of and preliminary conclusions drawn from an ongoing project dealing with the design of a software architecture for a family of so-c...
Marco Göltze