DATE
2006
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2006
IEEE
This paper presents a Java processor, called JOP, designed for time-predictable execution of real-time tasks. JOP is the implementation of the Java virtual machine in hardware. We...
DATE
2006
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2006
IEEE
The increasing complexity of embedded systems pushes system designers to higher levels of abstraction. Transaction Level Modeling (TLM) has been proposed to model ation in systems...
DATE
2006
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2006
IEEE
Most hardware description languages do not enforce determinacy, meaning that they may yield races. Race conditions pose a problem for the implementation, verification, and validat...
DATE
2006
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2006
IEEE
Sophisticated C compiler support for network processors (NPUs) is required to improve their usability and consequently, their acceptance in system design. Nonetheless, high-level ...
DATE
2006
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2006
IEEE
With reference to digital input power amplifier for automotive audio applications, the paper presents an exhaustive exploration of the huge mixed-signal space to find optimal trad...
DATE
2006
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2006
IEEE
This paper presents a novel input device design for capturing gestures. The system is based on commodity components and combines accelerometers, gyroscopes and bend sensors. It is...
DATE
2006
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2006
IEEE
Conventional high-level synthesis uses the worst case delay to relate all inputs to all outputs of an operation. This is a very conservative approximation of reality, especially i...
DATE
2006
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2006
IEEE
In this paper we analyze the impact of error detecting codes, implemented on an on-chip bus, on the on-chip simultaneous switching noise (SSN). First, we analyze in detail how SSN...
DATE
2006
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2006
IEEE
DATE
2006
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2006
IEEE
Discrete droplet digital microfluidics-based biochips face problems similar to that in other VLSI CAD systems, but with new constraints and interrelations. We focus on one such pr...