Placement is one of the most important steps in the RTLto-GDSII synthesis process, as it directly defines the interconnects, which have become the bottleneck in circuit and syste...
Jason Cong, Tim Kong, Joseph R. Shinnerl, Min Xie,...
While microprocessor designers turn to multicore architectures to sustain performance expectations, the dramatic increase in parallelism of such architectures will put substantial...
Susmit Biswas, Diana Franklin, Alan Savage, Ryan D...
This paper presents the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM), a structured technique for understanding the tradeoffs inherent in design. This method was developed to provi...
Rick Kazman, Mark H. Klein, Mario Barbacci, Thomas...
A simple extension of the critical path method is presented which allows more accurate optimization of circuits with level-sensitive latches. The extended formulation provides a s...
We analyze the effect of thermal constraints on the performance and power of multi-core processors. We propose system-level power and thermal models, and derive expressions for (a...
Ravishankar Rao, Sarma B. K. Vrudhula, Chaitali Ch...