DATE
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2009
IEEE
NAND Flash Memories require Garbage Collection (GC) and Wear Leveling (WL) operations to be carried out by Flash Translation Layers (FTLs) that oversee flash management. Owing to ...
DATE
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2009
IEEE
Abstract—Complex software programs are mostly characterized by phase behavior and runtime distributions. Due to the dynamism of the two characteristics, it is not efficient to m...
DATE
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2009
IEEE
—In modern sub-micron design, achieving low-skew clock distributions is facing challenges for high-performance circuits. Symmetric global clock distribution and clock tree synthe...
DATE
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2009
IEEE
Abstract—Longer range, faster speed and stronger link are today’s wireless mandatory characteristics. Tremendous efforts are being deployed to create new and improved wireless ...
DATE
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2009
IEEE
DATE
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2009
IEEE
This paper uses under-approximation of unreachable states of a design to derive incomplete specification of combinational logic. The resulting incompletely-specified functions are...
DATE
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2009
IEEE
DATE
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2009
IEEE
Core-based system-on-chips (SoCs) fabricated on threedimensional (3D) technology are emerging for better integration capabilities. Effective test architecture design and optimizat...
DATE
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2009
IEEE
—More and more processor manufacturers have launched embedded multicore processors for consumer electronics products because such processors provide high performance and low powe...
DATE
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2009
IEEE
—Localized heating-up creates thermal hotspots across the chip, with the integer register file ranked as the hottest unit in high-performance microprocessors. In this paper, we ...