Humans are "smart components" in a system, but cannot be directly programmed to perform; rather, their autonomy must be respected as a design constraint and incentives p...
Due to the unavoidable need for system debugging, performance tuning, and adaptation to new standards, the engineering change (EC) methodology has emerged as one of the crucial co...
In embedded system design, the designer has to choose an onchip memory configuration that is suitable for a specific application. To aid in this design choice, we present a memory...
CAD tools have become more and more important for integrated circuit (IC) design since a complicated system can be designed into a single chip, called system-on-a-chip (SOC), in w...
Yang Yang, Tong Jing, Xianlong Hong, Yu Hu, Qi Zhu...
Timing exception verification has become a center of interest as incorrect constraints can lead to chip failures. Proving that a false path is valid or not is a difficult problem ...