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2003
IEEE
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Platform-Based Testbench Generation
This paper presents a new technology that accelerates system verification. In a real life example, we achieved a speed-up of a factor of about 5000. The key for this speed-up is a...
Renate Henftling, Andreas Zinn, Matthias Bauer, Wo...
DATE
2003
IEEE
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Reconfigurable Signal Processing in Wireless Terminals
In this paper, we show the necessity of reconfigurable hardware for data and signal processing in wireless mobile terminals. We first identify the key processing power requirement...
Jürgen Helmschmidt, Eberhard Schüler, Pr...
DATE
2003
IEEE
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SAT-Based Techniques in System Synthesis
In this paper, we show how to integrate SAT-based techniques into the task of system synthesis by regarding the the problems: (i) feasibility check and (ii) evaluation of quality....
Christian Haubelt, Jürgen Teich, Rainer Feldm...
DATE
2003
IEEE
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Dynamic Functional Unit Assignment for Low Power
A hardware method for functional unit assignment is presented, based on the principle that a functional unit’s power consumption is approximated by the switching activity of its...
Steve Haga, Natasha Reeves, Rajeev Barua, Diana Ma...
DATE
2003
IEEE
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Dynamic Conditional Branch Balancing during the High-Level Synthesis of Control-Intensive Designs
We present two novel strategies to increase the scope for application of speculative code motions: (1) Adding scheduling steps dynamically during scheduling to conditional branche...
Sumit Gupta, Nikil D. Dutt, Rajesh K. Gupta, Alexa...
DATE
2003
IEEE
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Circuit and Platform Design Challenges in Technologies beyond 90nm
There are already a huge number of problems for silicon designers and it is likely to just get worse. Many of these problems are technical associated with shrinking geometries and...
Bill Grundmann, Rajesh Galivanche, Sandip Kundu
DATE
2003
IEEE
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Combined FDTD/Macromodel Simulation of Interconnected Digital Devices
Behavioral models of digital devices based on Radial Basis Functions (RBF) are incorporated into a Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) solver for full-wave analysis of interconne...
Stefano Grivet-Talocia, Igor S. Stievano, Ivan A. ...
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2003
IEEE
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Refinement of Mixed-Signal Systems with SystemC
Christoph Grimm, Christian Meise, Wilhelm Heupke, ...
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2003
IEEE
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Comparing Analytical Modeling with Simulation for Network Processors: A Case Study
Programming network processors remains an art due to the variety of different network processor architectures and due to little support to reason and explore implementations on su...
Matthias Gries, Chidamber Kulkarni, Christian Saue...
DATE
2003
IEEE
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A New Simulation Technique for Periodic Small-Signal Analysis
A new numerical technique for periodic small signal analysis based on harmonic balance method is proposed. Special-purpose numerical procedures based on Krylov subspace methods ar...
Mark M. Gourary, Sergey G. Rusakov, Sergey L. Ulya...