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DAC
2003
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Pushing ASIC performance in a power envelope
Power dissipation is becoming the most challenging design constraint in nanometer technologies. Among various design implementation schemes, standard cell ASICs offer the best pow...
Ruchir Puri, Leon Stok, John M. Cohn, David S. Kun...
DAC
2003
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
An IDF-based trace transformation method for communication refinement
In the Artemis project [13], design space exploration of embedded systems is provided by modeling application behavior and architectural performance constraints separately. Mappin...
Andy D. Pimentel, Cagkan Erbas
DAC
2003
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Optimizations for a simulator construction system supporting reusable components
Exploring a large portion of the microprocessor design space requires the rapid development of efficient simulators. While some systems support rapid model development through the...
David A. Penry, David I. August
DAC
2003
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Instruction encoding synthesis for architecture exploration using hierarchical processor models
This paper presents a novel instruction encoding generation technique for use in architecture exploration for application specific processors. The underlying exploration methodolo...
Achim Nohl, Volker Greive, Gunnar Braun, Andreas H...
DAC
2003
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
A retargetable micro-architecture simulator
The capability of performing architectural exploration has become essential for embedded microprocessor design in System-On-Chip. While many retargetable instruction set (ISA) sim...
Wai Sum Mong, Jianwen Zhu
DAC
2003
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Power-aware issue queue design for speculative instructions
Speculatively issued instructions may be particularly sensitive to increases in pipeline depth. Our results indicate that as pipeline depth increases, speculation increases the pe...
Tali Moreshet, R. Iris Bahar
DAC
2003
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
A new enhanced constructive decomposition and mapping algorithm
Structuring and mapping of a Boolean function is an important problem in the design of complex integrated circuits. Libraryaware constructive decomposition offers a solution to th...
Alan Mishchenko, Xinning Wang, Timothy Kam