DATE
1999
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
1999
IEEE
This paper investigates retiming and clock skew scheduling for improving the tolerance of synchronous circuits to delay variations. It is shown that when both long and short paths...
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1999
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
1999
ACM
DATE
1999
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
1999
IEEE
Power estimation is important for system-level exploration and trade-off analysis of VLSI systems. A power estimator for high-speed analog to digital converters that exploits info...
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1999
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
1999
ACM
ISLPED
1999
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
1999
ACM
This paper proposes a new approach using way prediction for achieving high performance and low energy consumption of set-associative caches. By accessing only a single cache way p...
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1999
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
1999
ACM
Modern microprocessors employ one or two levels of on-chip cachesto bridge the burgeoning speeddisparities between the processor and the RAM. These SRAM caches are a major source ...
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1999
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
1999
ACM
ISLPED
1999
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
1999
ACM
Gating the clock is an important technique used in low power design to disable unused modules of a circuit. Gating can save power by both preventing unnecessary activiiy in the lo...
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1999
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
1999
ACM
Abstract – In this paper, we propose a modeling approach for the average power consumption of macro-blocks that are typically used in digital signal processing (DSP) systems, suc...
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1999
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
1999
ACM
While guarded evaluation has proven an effective energy saving technique in arithmetic circuits, good methodologies do not exist for determining when and how to guard for maximal ...