In order to meet the high throughput requirements of applications exhibiting high ILP, VLIW ASIPs may increasingly include large numbers of functional unitsFUs. Unfortunately, `sw...
Margarida F. Jacome, Gustavo de Veciana, Satish Pi...
Currently, hardware intellectual property (IP) is delivered at vels of abstraction: hard, firm, and soft. In order to further enhance performance, efficiency, and flexibility of I...
New application-focused system-on-chip platforms motivate new application-specific processors. Configurable and extensible processor architectures offer the efficiency of tuned lo...
Albert Wang, Earl Killian, Dror E. Maydan, Chris R...
Reducing power dissipation is one of the most principle subjects in VLSI design today. Scaling causes subthreshold leakage currents to become a large component of total power diss...
Mohab Anis, Mohamed Mahmoud, Mohamed I. Elmasry, S...
Software-based self-test (SBST) is emerging as a promising technology for enabling at-speed test of high-speed microprocessors using low-cost testers. We explore the fault diagnos...