Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) processors are becoming popular because they exploit both instruction-level and threadlevel parallelism by issuing instructions from different t...
Functional validation of microprocessors is growing in complexity in current and future microprocessors. Traditionally, the different components (or validation collaterals) used i...
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SoC design methodologies are under constant revision due to adoption of fast shrinking process technologies at nanometer levels. Nanometer process geometries exhibit new complex d...
R. Raghavendra Kumar, Ricky Bedi, Ramadas Rajagopa...
As chip complexity grows, design productivity boost is expected from reuse of large parts and blocks of previous designs with the design effort largely invested into the new parts...
Increasing complexity of the functionalities and the resultant growth in number of gates integrated in a chip coupled with shrinking geometries and short cycle time requirements br...
Karanth Shankaranarayana, Soujanna Sarkar, R. Venk...