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2009
IEEE
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Energy-efficient spatially-adaptive clustering and routing in wireless sensor networks
Hengyu Long, Yongpan Liu, Xiaoguang Fan, Robert P....
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2009
IEEE
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Remote measurement of local oscillator drifts in FlexRay networks
—Distributed systems, especially time-triggered ones, are implementing clock synchronization algorithms to provide and maintain a common view of time among the different nodes. S...
Eric Armengaud, Andreas Steininger
DATE
2009
IEEE
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Aelite: A flit-synchronous Network on Chip with composable and predictable services
Abstract—To accommodate the growing number of applications integrated on a single chip, Networks on Chip (NoC) must offer scalability not only on the architectural, but also on t...
Andreas Hansson, Mahesh Subburaman, Kees Goossens
DATE
2009
IEEE
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Improving yield and reliability of chip multiprocessors
— An increasing number of hardware failures can be attributed to device reliability problems that cause partial system failure or shutdown. In this paper we propose a scheme for ...
Abhisek Pan, Omer Khan, Sandip Kundu
DATE
2009
IEEE
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On decomposing Boolean functions via extended cofactoring
—We investigate restructuring techniques based on decomposition/factorization, with the objective to move critical signals toward the output while minimizing area. A specific ap...
Anna Bernasconi, Valentina Ciriani, Gabriella Truc...
DATE
2009
IEEE
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Reliability aware through silicon via planning for 3D stacked ICs
Abstract—This work proposes reliability aware through silicon via (TSV) planning for the 3D stacked silicon integrated circuits (ICs). The 3D power distribution network is modele...
Amirali Shayan Arani, Xiang Hu, He Peng, Chung-Kua...
DATE
2009
IEEE
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Limiting the number of dirty cache lines
Abstract—Caches often employ write-back instead of writethrough, since write-back avoids unnecessary transfers for multiple writes to the same block. For several reasons, however...
Pepijn J. de Langen, Ben H. H. Juurlink
DATE
2009
IEEE
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Architectural support for low overhead detection of memory violations
Violations in memory references cause tremendous loss of productivity, catastrophic mission failures, loss of privacy and security, and much more. Software mechanisms to detect me...
Saugata Ghose, Latoya Gilgeous, Polina Dudnik, Ane...
DATE
2009
IEEE
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Fixed points for multi-cycle path detection
—Accurate timing analysis is crucial for obtaining the optimal clock frequency, and for other design stages such as power analysis. Most methods for estimating propagation delay ...
Vijay D'Silva, Daniel Kroening
DATE
2009
IEEE
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Masking timing errors on speed-paths in logic circuits
There is a growing concern about timing errors resulting from design marginalities and the effects of circuit aging on speed-paths in logic circuits. This paper presents a low ove...
Mihir R. Choudhury, Kartik Mohanram