MICRO
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2008
IEEE
Higher level of resource integration and the addition of new features in modern multi-processors put a significant pressure on their verification. Although a large amount of res...
MICRO
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2008
IEEE
—Transactional memory (TM) is a promising paradigm for helping programmers take advantage of emerging multicore platforms. Though they perform well under low contention, hardware...
MICRO
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2008
IEEE
Uniprocessor simulators track resource utilization cycle by cycle to estimate performance. Multiprocessor simulators, however, must account for synchronization events that increas...
MICRO
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2008
IEEE
Optimizing the common case has been an adage in decades of processor design practices. However, as the system complexity and optimization techniques’ sophistication have increas...
ISQED
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2008
IEEE
Off-chip communication consumes a significant part of main memory system power. Existing solutions imply the use of specialized memories or assume error free environments. This i...
ISQED
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2008
IEEE
An efficient frequency-based clock analysis method: CSAV is proposed in this paper. It computes the circuit response by first solving the state equation in frequency domain, and...
ISQED
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2008
IEEE
— The dominant substrate noise coupling mechanism is determined for multiple switching gates based on a physically intuitive model. The model exhibits reasonable accuracy as comp...
ISQED
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2008
IEEE
The advance in semiconductor technologies presents the serious problem of parameter variations. They affect threshold voltage of transistors and thus circuit delay also has variat...
ISQED
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2008
IEEE
—Power and energy consumption has emerged as the premier and most constraining aspect in modern computational systems. Dynamic Voltage Scheduling (DVS) has been provably one of t...
ISQED
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2008
IEEE
Large-scale process fluctuations (particularly random device mismatches) at nanoscale technologies bring about highdimensional strongly nonlinear performance variations that canno...