Efficient communication modeling is a critical task in SoC design and exploration. In particular, fast and accurate communication is needed to predict the performance of a system....
Closed formed expressions for buffered interconnect delay approximation have been around for some time. However, previous approaches assume that buffers are free to be placed anyw...
Charles J. Alpert, Jiang Hu, Sachin S. Sapatnekar,...
Abstract—Interconnects (wires, buffers, clock distribution networks, multiplexers and busses) consume a significant fraction of total circuit power. In this work, we demonstrat...
Abstract—Caches often employ write-back instead of writethrough, since write-back avoids unnecessary transfers for multiple writes to the same block. For several reasons, however...
— During volume testing, test application time, test data volume and high performance automatic test equipment (ATE) are the major cost factors. Embedded testing including builti...