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DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
Robust chip-level clock tree synthesis for SOC designs
A key problem that arises in System-on-a-Chip (SOC) designs of today is the Chip-level Clock Tree Synthesis (CCTS). CCTS is done by merging all the clock trees belonging to differ...
Anand Rajaram, David Z. Pan
DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
A reconfigurable routing algorithm for a fault-tolerant 2D-Mesh Network-on-Chip
In this paper we present a reconfigurable routing algorithm for a 2D-Mesh Network-on-Chip (NoC) dedicated to faulttolerant, Massively Parallel Multi-Processors Systems on Chip (MP...
Zhen Zhang, Alain Greiner, Sami Taktak
DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
Model checking based analysis of end-to-end latency in embedded, real-time systems with clock drifts
End-to-end latency of messages is an important design parameter that needs to be within specified bounds for the correct functioning of distributed real-time control systems. In t...
Swarup Mohalik, A. C. Rajeev, Manoj G. Dixit, S. R...
DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
Analysis and implications of parasitic and screening effects on the high-frequency/RF performance of tunneling-carbon nanotube F
Intrinsic and parasitic capacitances play an important role in determining the high?frequency RF performance of devices. Recently, a new type of carbon nanotube field effect trans...
Chaitanya Kshirsagar, Mohamed N. El-Zeftawi, Kaust...
DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
Run-time instruction set selection in a transmutable embedded processor
We are presenting a new concept of an application-specific processor that is capable of transmuting its instruction set according to non-predictive application behavior during run...
Jörg Henkel, Lars Bauer, Muhammad Shafique
DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
Miss reduction in embedded processors through dynamic, power-friendly cache design
Today, embedded processors are expected to be able to run complex, algorithm-heavy applications that were originally designed and coded for general-purpose processors. As a result...
Garo Bournoutian, Alex Orailoglu
DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
Multithreaded simulation for synchronous dataflow graphs
Synchronous dataflow (SDF) has been successfully used in design tools for system-level simulation of wireless communication systems. Modern wireless communication standards involv...
Chia-Jui Hsu, José Luis Pino, Shuvra S. Bha...
DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
MAPS: an integrated framework for MPSoC application parallelization
In the past few years, MPSoC has become the most popular solution for embedded computing. However, the challenge of programming MPSoCs also comes as the biggest side-effect of the...
Gerd Ascheid, Hanno Scharwächter, Heinrich Me...
DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
Feedback-controlled reliability-aware power management for real-time embedded systems
In recent literature it has been reported that Dynamic Power Management (DPM) may lead to decreased reliability in real-time embedded systems. The ever-shrinking device sizes cont...
Ranjani Sridharan, Nikhil Gupta, Rabi N. Mahapatra
DAC
2008
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
Type-matching clock tree for zero skew clock gating
Clock skew minimization is always very important in the clock tree synthesis. Due to clock gating, the clock tree may include different types of logic gates, e.g., AND gates, OR g...
Chia-Ming Chang, Shih-Hsu Huang, Yuan-Kai Ho, Jia-...