DATE
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
We report the successful application of a resistive bridging fault (RBF) simulator to industrial benchmark circuits. Despite the slowdown due to the consideration of the sophistic...
DATE
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
System-level integration requires an overall understanding of the interplay of the sub-systems to enable componentbased development with portability, reconfigurability and extens...
DATE
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
Fetching instructions from a set-associative cache in an embedded processor can consume a large amount of energy due to the tag checks performed. Recent proposals to address this ...
DATE
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
This paper presents a game-theoretic approach to the testing of uncontrollable real-time systems. By modelling the systems with Timed I/O Game Automata and specifying the test pur...
DATE
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
When a signal traverses on-chip voltage domains, a level shifter is required. Inverters can handle a high to low voltage shift with minimal leakage. For a low to high voltage leve...
DATE
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
Leakage power is a serious concern in nanometer CMOS technologies. In this paper we focus on leakage reduction through automatic insertion of sleep transistors for power gating in...
DATE
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
Abstract—Wafer-level test during burn-in (WLTBI) has recently emerged as a promising technique to reduce test and burn-in costs in semiconductor manufacturing. However, the testi...
DATE
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
DATE
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
This paper presents an improved hardware structure for the computation of the Whirlpool hash function. By merging the round key computation with the data compression and by using ...
DATE
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
Accurate power and performance figures are critical to assess the effective design of possible sensor node architectures in Body Area Networks (BANs) since they operate on limite...