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2006
IEEE
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Optimal periodic testing of intermittent faults in embedded pipelined processor applications
Today’s nanometer technology trends have a very negative impact on the reliability of semiconductor products. Intermittent faults constitute the largest part of reliability fail...
Nektarios Kranitis, Andreas Merentitis, N. Laoutar...
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2006
IEEE
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Functional test generation using property decompositions for validation of pipelined processors
Functional validation is a major bottleneck in pipelined processor design. Simulation using functional test vectors is the most widely used form of processor validation. While exi...
Heon-Mo Koo, Prabhat Mishra
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2006
IEEE
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Virtual prototyping of embedded platforms for wireless and multimedia
Most of the challenges related to the development of multi-processor platforms for complex wireless and multimedia applications fall into the Electronic System Level (ESL) domain....
Tim Kogel, Matthew Braun
DATE
2006
IEEE
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Parallel co-simulation using virtual synchronization with redundant host execution
In traditional parallel co-simulation approaches, the simulation speed is heavily limited by time synchronization overhead between simulators and idle time caused by data dependen...
Dohyung Kim, Soonhoi Ha, Rajesh Gupta
DATE
2006
IEEE
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Efficient test-data compression for IP cores using multilevel Huffman coding
Xrysovalantis Kavousianos, Emmanouil Kalligeros, D...
DATE
2006
IEEE
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Layout driven data communication optimization for high level synthesis
High level synthesis transformations play a major part in shaping the properties of the final circuit. However, most optimizations are performed without much knowledge of the fina...
Ryan Kastner, Wenrui Gong, Xin Hao, Forrest Brewer...
DATE
2006
IEEE
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Design and implementation of a modular and portable IEEE 754 compliant floating-point unit
Multimedia and communication algorithms from embedded system domain often make extensive use of floating-point arithmetic. Due to the complexity and expense of the floating-poin...
Kingshuk Karuri, Rainer Leupers, Gerd Ascheid, Hei...
DATE
2006
IEEE
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Formal verification of systemc designs using a petri-net based representation
This paper presents an effective approach to formally verify SystemC designs. The approach translates SystemC models into a Petri-Net based representation. The Petri-net model is ...
Daniel Karlsson, Petru Eles, Zebo Peng
DATE
2006
IEEE
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Application specific instruction processor based implementation of a GNSS receiver on an FPGA
In this paper the concept of a reconfigurable hardware macro to be used as a generic building block in lowpower, low-cost SoC for multioperable GNSS positioning is described, feat...
Götz Kappen, Tobias G. Noll