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DAC
2003
ACM
15 years 15 days ago
Multilevel global placement with retiming
Multiple clock cycles are needed to cross the global interconnects for multi-gigahertz designs in nanometer technologies. For synchronous designs, this requires retiming and pipel...
Jason Cong, Xin Yuan
DAC
2003
ACM
15 years 15 days ago
Microarchitecture evaluation with physical planning
Conventionally, microarchitecture designs are mainly guided by the maximum throughput (measured as IPC) and fail to evaluate the impact of architectural decisions on the physical ...
Jason Cong, Ashok Jagannathan, Glenn Reinman, Mich...
DAC
2003
ACM
15 years 15 days ago
Behavioral consistency of C and verilog programs using bounded model checking
We present an algorithm that checks behavioral consistency between an ANSI-C program and a circuit given in Verilog using Bounded Model Checking. Both the circuit and the program ...
Edmund M. Clarke, Daniel Kroening, Karen Yorav
DAC
2003
ACM
15 years 15 days ago
Energy-aware MPEG-4 FGS streaming
-- In this paper, we propose an energy-aware MPEG-4 FGS video streaming system with client feedback. In this client-server system, the battery-powered mobile client sends its maxim...
Kihwan Choi, Kwanho Kim, Massoud Pedram
DAC
2003
ACM
15 years 15 days ago
A scalable software-based self-test methodology for programmable processors
Software-based self-test (SBST) is an emerging approach to address the challenges of high-quality, at-speed test for complex programmable processors and systems-on chips (SoCs) th...
Li Chen, Srivaths Ravi, Anand Raghunathan, Sujit D...
DAC
2003
ACM
15 years 15 days ago
Automatic trace analysis for logic of constraints
Verification of system designs continues to be a major challenge today. Simulation remains the primary tool for making sure that implementations perform as they should. We present...
Xi Chen, Harry Hsieh, Felice Balarin, Yosinori Wat...
DAC
2003
ACM
15 years 15 days ago
Performance-impact limited area fill synthesis
Chemical-mechanical planarization (CMP) and other manufacturing steps in very deep-submicron VLSI have varying effects on device and interconnect features, depending on the local ...
Yu Chen, Puneet Gupta, Andrew B. Kahng
DAC
2003
ACM
15 years 15 days ago
An algebraic multigrid solver for analytical placement with layout based clustering
An efficient matrix solver is critical to the analytical placement. As the size of the matrix becomes huge, the multilevel methods turn out to be more efficient and more scalable....
Hongyu Chen, Chung-Kuan Cheng, Nan-Chi Chou, Andre...
DAC
2003
ACM
15 years 15 days ago
Temporofunctional crosstalk noise analysis
Noise affects circuit operation by increasing gate delays and causing latches to capture incorrect values. This paper proposes a method of characterizing correlation of signal tra...
Donald Chai, Alex Kondratyev, Yajun Ran, Kenneth H...
DAC
2003
ACM
15 years 15 days ago
A fast pseudo-boolean constraint solver
Donald Chai, Andreas Kuehlmann