An effective technique to save power during scan based test is to switch off unused scan chains. The results obtained with this method strongly depend on the mapping of scan flip-...
Christian G. Zoellin, Hans-Joachim Wunderlich, Jen...
Trends in the semiconductor industry towards extensive design and code reuse motivate a need for adequate Intellectual Property Protection (IPP) schemes. We offer a new general IP...
Gregory Wolfe, Jennifer L. Wong, Miodrag Potkonjak
This paper evaluates several hardware-based data prefetching techniques from an energy perspective, and explores their energy/performance tradeoffs. We present detailed simulation...
Yao Guo, Saurabh Chheda, Israel Koren, C. Mani Kri...
Scheduling is widely recognized as a very important step in highlevel synthesis. Nevertheless, it is usually done without taking into account the effects on the actual hardware im...
Luciano Lavagno, Mihai T. Lazarescu, Stefano Quer,...
Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) is an effective technique for controlling microprocessor energy and performance. Existing DVFS techniques are primarily based on hardw...
Qiang Wu, Margaret Martonosi, Douglas W. Clark, Vi...