ICCAD
2005
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
2005
IEEE
Heat dissipation is one of the most serious challenges in 3D IC designs. One effective way of reducing circuit temperature is to introduce thermal through-the-silicon (TTS) vias....
ICCAD
2005
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
2005
IEEE
A novel and very simple correct-by-construction top-down methodology for high-utilization mixed-size placement is presented. The PolarBear algorithm combines recursive cutsize-dri...
ICCAD
2005
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
2005
IEEE
Many commercially available embedded processors are capable of extending their base instruction set for a specific domain of applications. While steady progress has been made in t...
ICCAD
2005
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
2005
IEEE
— In this paper, an efficient linear time algorithm TACO is proposed for the first time to minimize the worst case clock skew in the presence of on-chip thermal variation. TACO...
ICCAD
2005
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
2005
IEEE
The presence of unknown values in the simulation result is a key barrier to effective output response compaction in practice. This paper proposes a simple circuit module, called a...
ICCAD
2005
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
2005
IEEE
Separate optimizations of logic and layout have been thoroughly studied in the past and are well documented for common benchmarks. However, to be competitive, modern circuit optim...
ICCAD
2005
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
2005
IEEE
Future inter- and intra-ULSI interconnect systems demand extremely high data rates as well as bi-directional multi-I/O concurrent service, re-configurable computing/processing arc...
ICCAD
2005
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
2005
IEEE
— One of the critical goals in code optimization for MPSoC architectures is to minimize the number of off-chip memory accesses. This is because such accesses can be extremely cos...
ICCAD
2005
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
2005
IEEE
In this paper we present NoCEE, a fast and accurate method for extracting energy models for packet-switched Network on Chip (NoC) routers. Linear regression is used to model the r...
ICCAD
2005
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
2005
IEEE
— When exploring computing elements made from technologies other than CMOS, it is imperative to investigate the effects of physical implementation constraints. This paper focuses...