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Powering down SDRAMs at run-time reduces memory energy consumption significantly, but often at the cost of performance. If employed speculatively with real-time memory controller...
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Addressing the challenges of extreme scale computing requires holistic design of new programming models and systems that support those models. This paper discusses the Angstrom pr...
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In this work we address the problem of managing interconnect timing in high-level synthesis by generating a layoutfriendly microarchitecture. A metric called spreading score is pr...
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Unknown values (Xs) may exist in a design due to uninitialized registers or blocks that are powered down. Due to X-pessimism in gate-level logic simulation, such Xs cannot be hand...
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In this paper, we propose two methods used in 3D IC placement that effectively exploit the die-to-die thermal coupling in the stack. First, TSVs are spread on each die to reduce t...
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We consider software transactional memory (STM) concurrency control for multicore real-time software, and present a novel contention manager (CM) for resolving transactional con...
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Near-threshold operation has emerged as a competitive approach for energy-efficient architecture design. In particular, a combination of near-threshold circuit techniques and par...
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In this work, we propose a fast and accurate chip/package thermomechanical stress and reliability co-analysis tool for TSV-based 3D ICs. We also present a design optimization meth...
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Improving detailed routing routability is an important objective of a global router. In this paper, we propose GDRouter, an interleaved global routing and detailed routing algorit...
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Spin-Transfer Torque RAM (STT-RAM) is an emerging non-volatile memory (NVM) technology that has the potential to replace the conventional on-chip SRAM caches for designing a more ...