Over the years, the fundamentals of VLSI technology have evolved to include a wide range
of topics and a broad range of practices. To encompass such a vast amount of knowledge …

US 2007/O198971 A1 Aug. 23, 2007 Related US Application Data Provisional application
No. 60/445,339, filed on Feb. 5, 2003, provisional application No. 60/490,162, filed on Jul …

Phishing is a current social engineering attack that results in online identity theft. In a
phishing attack, the attacker persuades the victim to reveal confidential information by using …

Rapid advances in microelectronic integration and the advent of Systems-on-Chip have
fueled the need for high-level synthesis, ie, an automated approach to the synthesis of …

Future computing systems need to balance flexibility, specialization, and performance in
order to meet market demands and the computing power required by new applications …

Decision diagrams are the state-of-the-art representation for logic functions, both binary and
multiple-valued. We consider ways to improve the construction of multiple-valued decision …

Mining engineering metaknowledge from electronic documents is important in devising new
design solutions for emerging applications as well as in identifying new business …

The availability of high-level design entry tooling is crucial for the viability of any
reconfigurable SoC architecture. This paper presents a graph covering algorithm. The graph …

A method and routing device are provided for routing a datapath design. Regularity may be
extracted among routing connections of the datapath design. A representative bit-slice may …

We address the problem of improving cache predictability and performance in embedded
systems through the use of software-assisted replacement mechanisms. These mechanisms …