Performance of applications can be boosted by executing application-specific Instruction Set Extensions (ISEs) on a specialized hardware coupled with a processor core. Many commer...
Partha Biswas, Sudarshan Banerjee, Nikil D. Dutt, ...
—Dynamic voltage scaling (DVS) provides power savings for systems with varying performance requirements. One low overhead implementation of DVS uses PMOS power switches to connec...
Liang Di, Mateja Putic, John Lach, Benton H. Calho...
Abstract— Timing and low power emerge as the most important goals in contemporary design. Meanwhile, the majority of placement algorithms developed by industry and academia still...
Circuit activity is a function of input patterns. When circuit activity changes abruptly, it can cause sudden drop or rise in power supply voltage. This change is known as power d...
Ilia Polian, Alejandro Czutro, Sandip Kundu, Bernd...
Traditional approaches for sequential logic optimization include (1) explicit state-based techniques such as state minimization, (2) structural techniques such as retiming, and (3...