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MICRO
2003
IEEE
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Checkpoint Processing and Recovery: Towards Scalable Large Instruction Window Processors
Large instruction window processors achieve high performance by exposing large amounts of instruction level parallelism. However, accessing large hardware structures typically req...
Haitham Akkary, Ravi Rajwar, Srikanth T. Srinivasa...
MICRO
2003
IEEE
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LLVA: A Low-level Virtual Instruction Set Architecture
A virtual instruction set architecture (V-ISA) implemented via a processor-specific software translation layer can provide great flexibility to processor designers. Recent examp...
Vikram S. Adve, Chris Lattner, Michael Brukman, An...
MICRO
2003
IEEE
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Processor Acceleration Through Automated Instruction Set Customization
Application-specific extensions to the computational capabilities of a processor provide an efficient mechanism to meet the growing performance and power demands of embedded appl...
Nathan Clark, Hongtao Zhong, Scott A. Mahlke
ITC
2003
IEEE
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A New Approach for Low Power Scan Testing
As semiconductor manufacturing technology advances, power dissipation and noise in scan testing has become a critical problem. In our studies on practical LSI manufacturing, we ha...
Takaki Yoshida, Masafumi Watari
ITC
2003
IEEE
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Extraction Error Diagnosis and Correction in High-Performance Designs
Test model generation is crucial in the test generation process of a high-performance design targeted for large volume production. A key process in test model generation requires ...
Yu-Shen Yang, Jiang Brandon Liu, Paul J. Thadikara...
ITC
2003
IEEE
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Designed -in-diagnostics: A new optical method
An in-circuit diagnostic test structure triggered by a light pulse captures logic states on-chip with picosecond timing accuracy, and the results read out via a scan chain thus pr...
Keneth R. Wilsher
ITC
2003
IEEE
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On Reducing Wrapper Boundary Register Cells in Modular SOC Testing
Motivated by the increasing area and performance overhead caused by wrapping the embedded cores for modular SOC testing, this paper proposes a solution for reducing the number of ...
Qiang Xu, Nicola Nicolici
ITC
2003
IEEE
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A Hybrid Coding Strategy For Optimized Test Data Compression
Store-and-generate techniques encode a given test set and regenerate the original test set during the test with the help of a decoder. Previous research has shown that runlength c...
Armin Würtenberger, Christofer S. Tautermann,...
ITC
2003
IEEE
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Adapting JTAG for AC Interconnect Testing
The use of AC coupled interconnects to provide communication paths between devices is increasing. The existing IEEE 1149.1 boundary scan standard [1] (JTAG) has limitations that h...
Lee Whetsel
ITC
2003
IEEE
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H-DFT: A Hybrid DFT Architecture For Low-Cost High Quality Structural Testing
This paper describes a Hybrid DFT (H-DFT) architecture for low-cost, high quality structural testing in the high volume manufacturing (HVM) environment. This structure efficiently...
David M. Wu, Mike Lin, Subhasish Mitra, Kee Sup Ki...