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DATE
2007
IEEE
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Accounting for cache-related preemption delay in dynamic priority schedulability analysis
Recently there has been considerable interest in incorporating timing effects of microarchitectural features of processors (e.g. caches and pipelines) into the schedulability anal...
Lei Ju, Samarjit Chakraborty, Abhik Roychoudhury
DATE
2007
IEEE
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Using an innovative SoC-level FMEA methodology to design in compliance with IEC61508
This paper proposes an innovative methodology to perform and validate a Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) at System-on-Chip (SoC) level. This is done in compliance with the...
Riccardo Mariani, Gabriele Boschi, Federico Colucc...
DATE
2007
IEEE
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Polynomial-time subgraph enumeration for automated instruction set extension
This paper proposes a novel algorithm that, given a data-flow graph and an input/output constraint, enumerates all convex subgraphs under the given constraint in polynomial time ...
Paolo Bonzini, Laura Pozzi
DATE
2007
IEEE
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A sophisticated memory test engine for LCD display drivers
Economic testing of small devices like LCD drivers is a real challenge. In this paper we describe an approach where a production tester is extended by a memory test engine (MTE). ...
Oliver Spang, Hans Martin von Staudt, Michael G. W...
DATE
2007
IEEE
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Dynamic reconfiguration in sensor networks with regenerative energy sources
In highly power constrained sensor networks, harvesting energy from the environment makes prolonged or even perpetual execution feasible. In such energy harvesting systems, energy...
Ani Nahapetian, Paolo Lombardo, Andrea Acquaviva, ...
DATE
2007
IEEE
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Engineering trust with semantic guardians
The ability to guarantee the functional correctness of digital integrated circuits and, in particular, complex microprocessors, is a key task in the production of secure and trust...
Ilya Wagner, Valeria Bertacco
DATE
2007
IEEE
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Accurate temperature-dependent integrated circuit leakage power estimation is easy
— It has been the conventional assumption that, due to the superlinear dependence of leakage power consumption on temperature, and widely varying on-chip temperature profiles, a...
Yongpan Liu, Robert P. Dick, Li Shang, Huazhong Ya...
DATE
2007
IEEE
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Development of an ASIP enabling flows in ethernet access using a retargetable compilation flow
In this paper we research an FPGA based Application Specific Instruction Set Processor (ASIP) tailored to the needs of a flow aware Ethernet access node using a retargetable com...
K. Van Renterghem, P. Demuytere, Dieter Verhulst, ...
DATE
2007
IEEE
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Maximum circuit activity estimation using pseudo-boolean satisfiability
Hratch Mangassarian, Andreas G. Veneris, Sean Safa...