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2003
IEEE
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15 years 11 months ago
Q-Tree: A New Iterative Improvement Approach for Buffered Interconnect Optimization
The “chicken-egg” dilemma between VLSI interconnect timing optimization and delay calculation suggests an iterative approach. We separate interconnect timing transformation as...
Andrew B. Kahng, Bao Liu
CHI
2010
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
O job can you return my mojo: improving human engagement and enjoyment in routine activities
Unlike machines, we humans are prone to boredom when we perform routine activities for long periods of time. Workers’ mental engagement in boring tasks diminishes, which eventua...
Dvijesh Shastri, Yuichi Fujiki, Ross Buffington, P...
DATE
2010
IEEE
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15 years 11 months ago
Properties of and improvements to time-domain dynamic thermal analysis algorithms
—Temperature has a strong influence on integrated circuit (IC) performance, power consumption, and reliability. However, accurate thermal analysis can impose high computation co...
Xi Chen, Robert P. Dick, Li Shang
FAST
2008
15 years 8 months ago
BPLRU: A Buffer Management Scheme for Improving Random Writes in Flash Storage
Flash memory has become the most important storage media in mobile devices, and is beginning to replace hard disks in desktop systems. However, its relatively poor random write pe...
Hyojun Kim, Seongjun Ahn
VEE
2006
ACM
116views Virtualization» more  VEE 2006»
16 years 14 days ago
Relative factors in performance analysis of Java virtual machines
Many new Java runtime optimizations report relatively small, single-digit performance improvements. On modern virtual and actual hardware, however, the performance impact of an op...
Dayong Gu, Clark Verbrugge, Etienne M. Gagnon