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2009
IEEE
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An efficent dynamic multicast routing protocol for distributing traffic in NOCs
Nowadays, in MPSoCs and NoCs, multicast protocol is significantly used for many parallel applications such as cache coherency in distributed shared-memory architectures, clock sync...
Masoumeh Ebrahimi, Masoud Daneshtalab, Mohammad Ho...
DATE
2009
IEEE
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UMTS MPSoC design evaluation using a system level design framework
Rapid design space exploration with accurate models is necessary to improve designer productivity at the electronic system level. We describe how to use a new event-based design f...
Douglas Densmore, Alena Simalatsar, Abhijit Davare...
DATE
2009
IEEE
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Accelerating FPGA-based emulation of quasi-cyclic LDPC codes with vector processing
—FPGAs are widely used for evaluating the error-floor performance of LDPC (low-density parity check) codes. We propose a scalable vector decoder for FPGA-based implementation of...
Xiaoheng Chen, Jingyu Kang, Shu Lin, Venkatesh Ake...
DATE
2009
IEEE
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Static analysis to mitigate soft errors in register files
—With continuous technology scaling, soft errors are becoming an increasingly important design concern even for earth-bound applications. While compiler approaches have the poten...
Jongeun Lee, Aviral Shrivastava
DATE
2009
IEEE
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Optimal sizing of configurable devices to reduce variability in integrated circuits
This paper describes a systematic approach that facilitates yield improvement of integrated circuits at the post-manufacture stage. A new Configurable Analogue Transistor (CAT) st...
Peter Wilson, Reuben Wilcock
DATE
2009
IEEE
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Towards a formal semantics for the AADL behavior annex
—AADL is an Architecture Description Language which describes embedded real-time systems. Behavior annex is an extension of the dispatch mechanism of AADL execution model. This p...
Zhibin Yang, Kai Hu, Dianfu Ma, Lei Pi
DATE
2009
IEEE
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Imperfection-immune VLSI logic circuits using Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistors
Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistors (CNFETs) show big promise as extensions to silicon-CMOS because: 1) Ideal CNFETs can provide significant energy and performance benefits o...
Subhasish Mitra, Jie Zhang, Nishant Patil, Hai Wei
DATE
2009
IEEE
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ORION 2.0: A fast and accurate NoC power and area model for early-stage design space exploration
As industry moves towards many-core chips, networks-on-chip (NoCs) are emerging as the scalable fabric for interconnecting the cores. With power now the first-order design constr...
Andrew B. Kahng, Bin Li, Li-Shiuan Peh, Kambiz Sam...
DATE
2009
IEEE
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Reliable mode changes in real-time systems with fixed priority or EDF scheduling
Abstract—Many application domains require adaptive realtime embedded systems that can change their functionality over time. In such systems it is not only necessary to guarantee ...
Nikolay Stoimenov, Simon Perathoner, Lothar Thiele