Next generation data centers will likely be based on the emerging paradigm of
disaggregated function-blocks-as-a-unit departing from the current state of mainboard-as-a …

The Internet of Things (IoT) promises a plethora of new services and applications supported
by a wide range of devices that includes sensors and actuators. To reach its potential IoT …

Analytical placement engines use half-perimeter wire length (HPWL) of the circuit as an
objective function to place blocks optimally within a chip. Inspired by popularly used log sum …

Conventional system simulators are readily used by computer architects to design and
evaluate their processor designs. These simulators provide reasonable levels of accuracy …

Multi-core architectures are now the standard on highend computing devices, from desktop
computers to tablets to cell phones. Multi-threaded applications can take full advantage of …

Exploring thread-to-core mapping options for a parallel application on a multicore
architecture is computationally very expensive. For the same algorithm, the mapping …

Simulation has become a must in research. Since the real implementation of a processor is
very expensive in terms of money and time, it is almost impossible to implement and test the …