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2004
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GRAAL - A Development Framework for Embedded Graphics Accelerators
This paper presents a versatile hardware/software cosimulation and co-design environment for embedded 3D graphics accelerators. The GRAphics AcceLerator design exploration framewo...
Dan Crisu, Sorin Cotofana, Stamatis Vassiliadis, P...
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2004
IEEE
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Utilizing Formal Assertions for System Design of Network Processors
System level modeling with executable languages such as C/C++ has been crucial in the development of large electronic systems from general processors to application specific desig...
Xi Chen, Yan Luo, Harry Hsieh, Laxmi N. Bhuyan, Fe...
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2004
IEEE
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Configuration-Sensitive Process Scheduling for FPGA-Based Computing Platforms
Reconfigurable computing has become an important part of research in software systems and computer architecture. While prior research on reconfigurable computing have addressed ar...
Guilin Chen, Mahmut T. Kandemir, Ugur Sezer
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2004
IEEE
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Quasi-Static Scheduling for Real-Time Systems with Hard and Soft Tasks
This report addresses the problem of scheduling for real-time systems that include both hard and soft tasks. In order to capture the relative importance of soft tasks and how the ...
Luis Alejandro Cortés, Petru Eles, Zebo Pen...
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2004
IEEE
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From Synchronous to Asynchronous: An Automatic Approach
This paper presents a methodology to derive asynchronous circuits from optimized synchronous circuits by replacing the clock distribution tree by a handshaking network. A case stu...
Jordi Cortadella, Alex Kondratyev, Luciano Lavagno...
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2004
IEEE
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OCCN: A Network-On-Chip Modeling and Simulation Framework
Marcello Coppola, Stephane Curaba, Miltos D. Gramm...
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2004
IEEE
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An Integrated Design and Verification Methodology for Reconfigurable Multimedia Systems
Recently a lot of multimedia applications are emerging on portable appliances. They require both the flexibility of upgradeable devices (traditionally software based) and a powerf...
Michele Borgatti, Andrea Capello, Umberto Rossi, J...
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2004
IEEE
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Dynamic Power Management Using Data Buffers
This paper presents a method to reduce energy consumption by inserting data buffers. The method determines whether power can be reduced by inserting a buffer between two component...
Le Cai, Yung-Hsiang Lu
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2004
IEEE
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Modeling Shared Resource Contention Using a Hybrid Simulation/Analytical Approach
Future Systems-on-Chips will include multiple heterogeneous processing units, with complex data-dependent shared resource access patterns dictating the performance of a design. Cu...
Alex Bobrek, Joshua J. Pieper, Jeffrey E. Nelson, ...
DATE
2004
IEEE
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Experiences during the Experimental Validation of the Time-Triggered Architecture
During last years, the Time-Triggered Architecture (TTA) has been gaining acceptance as a generic architecture for highly dependable real-time systems. It is now being used to imp...
Sara Blanc, Joaquin Gracia, Pedro J. Gil