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ASPDAC
2009
ACM
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A control theory approach for thermal balancing of MPSoC
— Thermal balancing and reducing hot-spots are two important challenges facing the MPSoC designers. In this work, we model the thermal behavior of a MPSoC as a control theory pro...
Francesco Zanini, David Atienza, Giovanni De Miche...
ASPDAC
2009
ACM
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Addressing thermal and power delivery bottlenecks in 3D circuits
— The enhanced packing densities facilitated by 3D integrated circuit technology also has an unwanted side-effect, in the form of increasing the amount of current per unit footpr...
Sachin S. Sapatnekar
ASPDAC
2009
ACM
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Exact and fast L1 cache simulation for embedded systems
Nobuaki Tojo, Nozomu Togawa, Masao Yanagisawa, Tat...
ASPDAC
2009
ACM
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Fast false path identification based on functional unsensitizability using RTL information
Yuki Yoshikawa, Satoshi Ohtake, Tomoo Inoue, Hideo...
ASPDAC
2009
ACM
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Hybrid LZA: a near optimal implementation of the leading zero anticipator
The Leading Zero Anticipator (LZA) is one of the main components used in floating point addition. It tends to be on the critical path, so it has attracted the attention of many r...
Amit Verma, Ajay K. Verma, Philip Brisk, Paolo Ien...
ASPDAC
2009
ACM
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Scheduled voltage scaling for increasing lifetime in the presence of NBTI
— Negative Bias Temperature Instability (NBTI) is a leading reliability concern for integrated circuits (ICs). It gradually increases the threshold voltages of PMOS transistors, ...
Lide Zhang, Robert P. Dick
ASPDAC
2009
ACM
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A novel Toffoli network synthesis algorithm for reversible logic
—Reversible logic studies have promising potential on energy lossless circuit design, quantum computation, nanotechnology, etc. Reversible logic features a one-to-one input outpu...
Yexin Zheng, Chao Huang
ASPDAC
2009
ACM
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Analysis of communication delay bounds for network on chips
—In network-on-chip, computing worst-case delay bound for packet delivery is crucial for designing predictable systems but yet an intractable problem due to complicated resource ...
Yue Qian, Zhonghai Lu, Wenhua Dou
ASPDAC
2009
ACM
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Timing driven power gating in high-level synthesis
- The power gating technique is useful in reducing standby leakage current, but it increases the gate delay. For a functional unit, its maximum allowable delay (for a target clock ...
Shih-Hsu Huang, Chun-Hua Cheng
ASPDAC
2009
ACM
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Incremental and on-demand random walk for iterative power distribution network analysis
— Power distribution networks (PDNs) are designed and analyzed iteratively. Random walk is among the most efficient methods for PDN analysis. We develop in this paper an increme...
Yiyu Shi, Wei Yao, Jinjun Xiong, Lei He