The need for low-power, small factor secondary storage device has led to the widespread use of flash memory in embedded systems. The energy consumption of processor and flash base...
Power consumption, particularly runtime leakage, in long on-chip buses has grown to an unacceptable portion of the total power budget due to heavy buffer insertion to combat RC de...
Harmander Deogun, Rajeev R. Rao, Dennis Sylvester,...
Increasingly significant variational effects present a great challenge for delivering desired clock skew reliably. Non-tree clock network has been recognized as a promising approac...
Bounded Model Checking (BMC) relies on solving a sequence of highly correlated Boolean satisfiability (SAT) problems, each of which corresponds to the existence of counter-example...
Chao Wang, HoonSang Jin, Gary D. Hachtel, Fabio So...
Achieving design closure is one of the biggest headaches for modern VLSI designers. This problem is exacerbated by high-level design automation tools that ignore increasingly impo...
Zhenyu (Peter) Gu, Jia Wang, Robert P. Dick, Hai Z...