Variability-driven module selection with joint design time optimization and post-silicon tuning

F Wang, X Wu, Y Xie - 2008 Asia and South Pacific Design …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Increasing delay and power variation are significant challenges to the designers as
technology scales to the deep sub-micron (DSM) regime. Traditional module selection …

FastYield: Variation-aware, layout-driven simultaneous binding and module selection for performance yield optimization

G Lucas, S Cromar, D Chen - 2009 Asia and South Pacific …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While technology scaling has presented many new and exciting opportunities, new design
challenges have arisen due to increased density, and delay and power variations. High …

Timing variation-aware task scheduling and binding for MPSoC

HN Chon, T Kim - 2009 Asia and South Pacific Design …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work addresses the new problem of timing variation-aware task scheduling and binding
(TSB) for multiprocessor system-on-chip (MPSoC) architecture in the system-level design …

A variation aware high level synthesis framework

F Wang, G Sun, Y Xie - Proceedings of the conference on Design …, 2008 - dl.acm.org
The worst-case delay/power of function units has been used in traditional high level
synthesis to facilitate design space exploration. As technology scales to nanometer regime …

Process variation aware system-level task allocation using stochastic ordering of delay distributions

L Singhal, E Bozorgzadeh - 2008 IEEE/ACM International …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Design variability due to within-die and die-to-die variations has potential to significantly
reduce the maximum operating frequency and effective performance of the system in future …

Tolerating process variations in high-level synthesis using transparent latches

Y Chen, Y Xie - 2009 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Considering process variability at the behavior synthesis level is necessary, because it
makes some instances of function units slower and others faster, resulting in unbalanced …

A distributed clustered architecture to tackle delay variations in datapath synthesis

AA Del Barrio, J Cong… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the necessity of handling unexpected events in execution time, eg, to support
process variations, new mechanisms for dealing with every possible behavior of the …

Statistical high-level synthesis under process variability

Y Xie, Y Chen - IEEE Design & Test of Computers, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Statistical High-Level Synthesis under Process Variability Page 1 Statistical High-Level
Synthesis under Process Variability Yuan Xie and Yibo Chen Pennsylvania State University IT IS …

Variability-aware architecture level optimization techniques for robust nanoscale chip design

SP Mohanty, M Gomathisankaran… - Computers & Electrical …, 2014 - Elsevier
The design space for nanoscale CMOS circuits is vast, with multiple dimensions
corresponding to process variability, leakage, power, thermal, reliability, security, and yield …

Timing variation-aware scheduling and resource binding in high-level synthesis

K Mittal, A Joshi, M Mutyam - ACM Transactions on Design Automation …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
Due to technological scaling, process variations have increased significantly, resulting in
large variations in the delay of the functional units. Hence, the worst-case approach is …