DATE
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2008
IEEE
When designing heterogeneous MP-SoCs designers have to take into account various objectives such as power, die size, flexibility, performance or programmability. But to be able t...
DATE
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2008
IEEE
Increasing reliability at a minimum amount of extra cost is a major challenge in todays ECU network design. Considering reliability as an objective already in early design phases ...
DATE
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2008
IEEE
Extending 2-D planar topologies in integrated circuits (ICs) to a 3-D implementation has the obvious benefits of reducing the overall footprint and average interconnection length,...
DATE
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2008
IEEE
Ultra low-power devices are being developed for embedded applications in bio-medical electronics, wireless sensor networks, environment monitoring and protection, etc. The testing...
DATE
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2008
IEEE
We report the successful application of a resistive bridging fault (RBF) simulator to industrial benchmark circuits. Despite the slowdown due to the consideration of the sophistic...
DATE
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2008
IEEE
System-level integration requires an overall understanding of the interplay of the sub-systems to enable componentbased development with portability, reconfigurability and extens...
DATE
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2008
IEEE
Fetching instructions from a set-associative cache in an embedded processor can consume a large amount of energy due to the tag checks performed. Recent proposals to address this ...
DATE
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2008
IEEE
This paper presents a game-theoretic approach to the testing of uncontrollable real-time systems. By modelling the systems with Timed I/O Game Automata and specifying the test pur...
DATE
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2008
IEEE
When a signal traverses on-chip voltage domains, a level shifter is required. Inverters can handle a high to low voltage shift with minimal leakage. For a low to high voltage leve...
DATE
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2008
IEEE
Leakage power is a serious concern in nanometer CMOS technologies. In this paper we focus on leakage reduction through automatic insertion of sleep transistors for power gating in...