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2009
IEEE
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Reliability aware through silicon via planning for 3D stacked ICs
Abstract—This work proposes reliability aware through silicon via (TSV) planning for the 3D stacked silicon integrated circuits (ICs). The 3D power distribution network is modele...
Amirali Shayan Arani, Xiang Hu, He Peng, Chung-Kua...
DATE
2009
IEEE
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Limiting the number of dirty cache lines
Abstract—Caches often employ write-back instead of writethrough, since write-back avoids unnecessary transfers for multiple writes to the same block. For several reasons, however...
Pepijn J. de Langen, Ben H. H. Juurlink
DATE
2009
IEEE
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Architectural support for low overhead detection of memory violations
Violations in memory references cause tremendous loss of productivity, catastrophic mission failures, loss of privacy and security, and much more. Software mechanisms to detect me...
Saugata Ghose, Latoya Gilgeous, Polina Dudnik, Ane...
DATE
2009
IEEE
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Fixed points for multi-cycle path detection
—Accurate timing analysis is crucial for obtaining the optimal clock frequency, and for other design stages such as power analysis. Most methods for estimating propagation delay ...
Vijay D'Silva, Daniel Kroening
DATE
2009
IEEE
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Masking timing errors on speed-paths in logic circuits
There is a growing concern about timing errors resulting from design marginalities and the effects of circuit aging on speed-paths in logic circuits. This paper presents a low ove...
Mihir R. Choudhury, Kartik Mohanram
DATE
2009
IEEE
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Finite precision processing in wireless applications
—Complex signal processing algorithms are often specified in floating point precision. Thus, a type conversion is needed when the targeted platform requires fixed-point precis...
David Novo, Min Li, Bruno Bougard, Liesbet Van der...
DATE
2009
IEEE
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Distributed peak power management for many-core architectures
Recently proposed techniques for peak power management [5] involve centralized decision-making and assume quick evaluation of the various power management states. These techniques...
John Sartori, Rakesh Kumar
DATE
2009
IEEE
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Correct-by-construction generation of device drivers based on RTL testbenches
Abstract—The generation of device drivers is a very time consuming and error prone activity. All the strategies proposed up to now to simplify this operation require a manual, ev...
Nicola Bombieri, Franco Fummi, Graziano Pravadelli...
DATE
2009
IEEE
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A hybrid packet-circuit switched on-chip network based on SDM
—In this paper, we propose a novel on-chip communication scheme by dividing the resources of a traditional packet-switched network-on-chip between a packet-switched and a circuit...
Mehdi Modarressi, Hamid Sarbazi-Azad, Mohammad Arj...