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2005
IEEE
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Low Cost Task Migration Initiation in a Heterogeneous MP-SoC
Run-time task migration in a heterogeneous multiprocessor System-on-Chip (MP-SoC) is a challenge that requires cooperation between the task and the operating system. In task migra...
Vincent Nollet, Prabhat Avasare, Jean-Yves Mignole...
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2005
IEEE
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On-Chip Multi-Channel Waveform Monitoring for Diagnostics of Mixed-Signal VLSI Circuits
Multi-channel waveform monitoring technique enhances built-in test and diagnostic capability of mixed-signal VLSI circuits. An 8-channel prototype system incorporates adaptive sam...
Koichiro Noguchi, Makoto Nagata
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2005
IEEE
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Noise Figure Evaluation Using Low Cost BIST
A technique for evaluating noise figure suitable for BIST implementation is described. It is based on a low cost single-bit digitizer, which allows the simultaneous evaluation of ...
Marcelo Negreiros, Luigi Carro, Altamiro Amadeu Su...
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2005
IEEE
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Modeling and Propagation of Noisy Waveforms in Static Timing Analysis
A technique based on the sensitivity of the output to input waveform is presented for accurate propagation of delay information through a gate for the purpose of static timing ana...
Shahin Nazarian, Massoud Pedram, Emre Tuncer, Tao ...
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2005
IEEE
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Lightweight Multitasking Support for Embedded Systems using the Phantom Serializing Compiler
Embedded software continues to play an ever increasing role in the design of complex embedded applications. In part, the elevel of abstraction provided by a high-level programming...
André C. Nácul, Tony Givargis
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2005
IEEE
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Top-Down Design of a Low-Power Multi-Channel 2.5-Gbit/s/Channel Gated Oscillator Clock-Recovery Circuit
We present a complete top-down design of a low-power multi-channel clock recovery circuit based on gated current-controlled oscillators. The flow includes several tools and method...
Paul Muller, Armin Tajalli, Seyed Mojtaba Atarodi,...
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2005
IEEE
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Modeling and Analysis of Loading Effect in Leakage of Nano-Scaled Bulk-CMOS Logic Circuits
In nanometer scaled CMOS devices significant increase in the subthreshold, the gate and the reverse biased junction band-toband-tunneling (BTBT) leakage, results in the large incr...
Saibal Mukhopadhyay, Swarup Bhunia, Kaushik Roy
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2005
IEEE
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Compositional Memory Systems for Multimedia Communicating Tasks
Conventional cache models are not suited for real-time parallel processing because tasks may flush each other’s data out of the cache in an unpredictable manner. In this way th...
Anca Mariana Molnos, Marc J. M. Heijligers, Sorin ...
DATE
2005
IEEE
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Functional Coverage Driven Test Generation for Validation of Pipelined Processors
Functional verification of microprocessors is one of the most complex and expensive tasks in the current system-on-chip design process. A significant bottleneck in the validatio...
Prabhat Mishra, Nikil D. Dutt
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2005
IEEE
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Efficient Solution of Language Equations Using Partitioned Representations
A class of discrete event synthesis problems can be reduced to solving language equations F • X ⊆ S, where F is the fixed component and S the specification. Sequential synthes...
Alan Mishchenko, Robert K. Brayton, Jie-Hong Rolan...