Concurrent error detection (CED) techniques are widely used to ensure data integrity in digital systems. Data integrity guarantees that the system outputs are either correct or an error is indicated when incorrect out...
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(纸本)0769510256
Concurrent error detection (CED) techniques are widely used to ensure data integrity in digital systems. Data integrity guarantees that the system outputs are either correct or an error is indicated when incorrect outputs are produced. This dissertation presents the results of theoretical and simulation studies of various CED techniques. The CED schemes studied are based on diverse duplication, simple duplication of identical implementations, and error-detection techniques like parity checking. The study aimed at [1] a quantitative comparison of the effectiveness different CED schemes, and (2) developing design techniques for efficient concurrent error detection.
We describe fully polynomial time approximation schemes for generalized multicommodity flow problems arising in VLSI applications such as Global Routing via Buffer Blocks (GRBB). We extend Fleischer’s improvement [7]...
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Area and power of data storage elements can be excessively large in many data intensive DSP ASICs, such as high-throughput pipelined-FFTs and data interleavers. In this paper, we present a low-complexity multi-port da...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0780367413
Area and power of data storage elements can be excessively large in many data intensive DSP ASICs, such as high-throughput pipelined-FFTs and data interleavers. In this paper, we present a low-complexity multi-port data buffer design methodology based on dynamic memory configuration that results in small area and low power overhead by adapting the buffer architecture to the data access requirements. The buffer minimizes the number of transistors and simplifies-the interface between memory core and external digital circuitry. The buffer can be designed with a low cost digital circuit processing technology. To evaluate our methodology, we designed a buffer for data interleaver and pipelined FFT that requires high throughput. We compare the buffer with conventional buffers based on static memory.
This paper addresses the problem of combinational equivalence checking (CEC) which forms one of the key components of the current verification methodology for digital systems. A number of recently proposed BDD based a...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0769509932
This paper addresses the problem of combinational equivalence checking (CEC) which forms one of the key components of the current verification methodology for digital systems. A number of recently proposed BDD based approaches have met with considerable success in this area. However, the growing gap between the capability of current solvers and the complexity of verification instances necessitates the exploration of alternative, better solutions. This paper revisits the application of Satisfiability (SAT) algorithms to the combinational equivalence checking (CEC) problem. We argue that SAT is a more robust and flexible engine of Boolean reasoning for the CEC application than BDDs, which have traditionally been the method of choice. Preliminary results on a simple framework for SAT based CEC show a speedup of up to two orders of magnitude compared to state-of-the-art SAT based methods for CEC and also demonstrate that even with this simple algorithm and untuned prototype implementation it is only moderately slower and sometimes faster than a state-of-the-art BDD based mixed engine commercial CEC tool. While SAT based CEC methods need further research and tuning before they can surpass almost a decade of research in BDD based CEC, the recent progress is very promising and merits continued research.
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A. DoboliVLSI Systems Design Laboratory
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook Stony Brook NY
This paper presents an integrated approach to hardware software co-synthesis and HLS for design of low-power embedded systems. The main motivation for this work is that fine trade-offs between latency and power can be...
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(纸本)0769509932
This paper presents an integrated approach to hardware software co-synthesis and HLS for design of low-power embedded systems. The main motivation for this work is that fine trade-offs between latency and power can be explored at the system level only with a detailed knowledge of used hardware resources. Integrated method was realized as a simulated annealing based solution-space exploration. Exploration is guided by Performance Models, that exactly capture the relationship between performances i.e. power consumption and latency and design decisions i.e. binding and scheduling. The proposed approach permits nor only a more accurate latency and power estimation but also the exposure of RTL-level design decisions at the system level. As a result, more effective power-latency trade-offs are possible during co-synthesis as compared to traditional task-level methods.
It is commonly believed that the dynamics responsible for low-frequency fluctuations (LFF’s) in external cavity semiconductor lasers is stochastic or chaotic. A common approach to address the origin of LFF’s is to i...
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It is commonly believed that the dynamics responsible for low-frequency fluctuations (LFF’s) in external cavity semiconductor lasers is stochastic or chaotic. A common approach to address the origin of LFF’s is to investigate the dynamical behavior of, and the interaction among, various external cavity modes in the Lang-Kobayashi (LK) paradigm. In this paper, we propose a framework for understanding of the LFFs based on a different set of fundamental solutions of the LK equations, which are periodic or quasiperiodic, and which are characterized by a sequence of time-locked pulses with slowly varying magnitude. We present numerical evidence and heuristic arguments, indicating that the dynamics of LFF’s emerges as a result of quasiperiodic bifurcations from these solutions as the pumping current increases. Regular periodic solutions can actually be observed when (1) the feedback level is moderate, (2) pumping current is below solitary threshold, and (3) the linewidth enhancement factor is relatively large.
The primary objective of this research is to model the biomechanical control system employed by the central nervous system (CNS) to maintain posture and balance of the head-arms-torso (HAT) during gait. More specifica...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0780365763
The primary objective of this research is to model the biomechanical control system employed by the central nervous system (CNS) to maintain posture and balance of the head-arms-torso (HAT) during gait. More specifically, the intent is to stabilize a model of the upper body so that the HAT response is similar to that found experimentally in human subjects during gait. This is accomplished by using appropriate physiological parameters as feedback to generate realistic control signals at the hip musculature. The modelling includes the HAT musculoskeletal characteristics as well as pure neural time delays. The CNS control system is modelled by a linear state feedback controller as well as a hybrid fuzzy controller that has been adapted from a linear quadratic regulator. In addition, a newly derived feedforward component is demonstrated. It is expected that a better understanding of the human fait process will prove valuable in designing assistive devices and bipedal robots.
Time-interleaved architectures are frequently employed in high-speed data converters and signal processing channels in order to achieve the highest possible speed. However, the performance of the combined channels is ...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0780366859
Time-interleaved architectures are frequently employed in high-speed data converters and signal processing channels in order to achieve the highest possible speed. However, the performance of the combined channels is reduced if each channel is not well matched in terms of gain, converter offset and timing skew. In this paper, the errors introduced by gain and offset mismatch and timing skew is analyzed in detail. The digital spectra due to mismatch between channels is derived by applying digital signal processing theories and the closed-forms of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) are derived and verified using Matlab/sup TM/.
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