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2006
IEEE
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Design and implementation of a modular and portable IEEE 754 compliant floating-point unit
Multimedia and communication algorithms from embedded system domain often make extensive use of floating-point arithmetic. Due to the complexity and expense of the floating-poin...
Kingshuk Karuri, Rainer Leupers, Gerd Ascheid, Hei...
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2006
IEEE
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Formal verification of systemc designs using a petri-net based representation
This paper presents an effective approach to formally verify SystemC designs. The approach translates SystemC models into a Petri-Net based representation. The Petri-net model is ...
Daniel Karlsson, Petru Eles, Zebo Peng
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2006
IEEE
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Application specific instruction processor based implementation of a GNSS receiver on an FPGA
In this paper the concept of a reconfigurable hardware macro to be used as a generic building block in lowpower, low-cost SoC for multioperable GNSS positioning is described, feat...
Götz Kappen, Tobias G. Noll
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2006
IEEE
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Activity clustering for leakage management in SPMs
This paper we proposes compiler-based leakage optimization strategy for on-chip scratch-pad memories (SPMs). The idea is to keep only a small set of SPM regions active at a given ...
Mahmut T. Kandemir, Guangyu Chen, Feihui Li, Mary ...
DATE
2006
IEEE
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Lens aberration aware timing-driven placement
Process variations due to lens aberrations are to a large extent systematic, and can be modeled for purposes of analyses and optimizations in the design phase. Traditionally, vari...
Andrew B. Kahng, Chul-Hong Park, Puneet Sharma, Qi...
DATE
2006
IEEE
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New methods and coverage metrics for functional verification
Vasco Jerinic, Jan Langer, Ulrich Heinkel, Dietmar...
DATE
2006
IEEE
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Timing-driven cell layout de-compaction for yield optimization by critical area minimization
This paper proposes a yield optimization method for standard-cells under timing constraints. Yield-aware logic synthesis and physical optimization require yield-enhanced standard ...
Tetsuya Iizuka, Makoto Ikeda, Kunihiro Asada
DATE
2006
IEEE
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Soft-error classification and impact analysis on real-time operating systems
This paper investigates the sensitivity of real-time systems running applications under operating systems that are subject to soft-errors. We consider applications using different...
N. Ignat, B. Nicolescu, Yvon Savaria, Gabriela Nic...
DATE
2006
IEEE
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ASIP architecture for multi-standard wireless terminals
This paper presents the Block Processing Engine (BPE), an Application Specific Instruction-Set Processor (ASIP) explicitly designed for the implementation of multistandard wireles...
Daniele Lo Iacono, J. Zory, Ettore Messina, N. Pia...