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Acceleration in the form of customized datapaths offer large performance and energy improvements over general purpose processors. Reconfigurable fabrics such as FPGAs are gaining popularity for use in implementing application-specific accelerators, thereby ...
Logic synthesis is an important part of electronic design automation (EDA) flows, which enable the implementation of digital systems. As the design size and complexity increase, the data structures and algorithms for logic synthesis must adapt and improve ...
Safety requirements for modern automotive electronics call for more and more robust power integrated circuits. The mixed-signal IC design flow alone is often no longer capable of tracking possible design failures in complex Smart Power integrated circuits ...
Electronic design automation (EDA) has enabled the integrated circuit industry to sustain exponentially increasing product complexity growth until today, while maintaining consistent product development timeline and costs. We argue that the success of EDA- ...
Approximate computing has gained high attention in various applications that can benefit from a reduction in costs by lowering the accuracy. In this paper we present an optimization approach for functional approximation of Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs) w ...
The strong interaction between Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools and Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) technology contributed substantially to the advancement of modern digital electronics. The continuous downscaling of CMOS Field Effec ...
The growing complexity of digital signal processing applications implemented in programmable logic and embedded processors make a compelling case the use of high-level methodologies for their design and implementation. Past research has shown that for comp ...
Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have been indispensable components of embedded systems and datacenter infrastructures. However, energy efficiency of FPGAs has become a hard barrier preventing their expansion to more application contexts, due to two ...
Given (i) a Boolean function, (ii) a set of arrival times at the inputs, and (iii) a gate library with associated delay values, the exact delay synthesis problem asks for a circuit implementation which minimizes the arrival time at the output(s). The exact ...
A 3-D simulation of substrate currents is crucial to analyze parasitic coupling effects due to minority carrier injection in smart power ICs. In this paper, a substrate parasitic extraction methodology is introduced by dividing the IC layout into elementar ...
