ReCycle: Pipeline adaptation to tolerate process variation

A Tiwari, SR Sarangi, J Torrellas - ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture …, 2007 - dl.acm.org
Process variation affects processor pipelines by making some stages slower and others
faster, therefore exacerbating pipeline unbalance. This reduces the frequency attainable by …

Interconnection system

JCR Bennett - US Patent 8,726,064, 2014 - Google Patents
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MEMORY, INC.)) reassignment VSIP HOLDINGS LLC (F/K/A VIOLIN SYSTEMS LLC (F/K/A …

Mitigating thermal effects on clock skew with dynamically adaptive drivers

M Mondal, A Ricketts, S Kirolos, T Ragheb… - … Symposium on Quality …, 2007 - computer.org
On-chip temperature gradient emerged as a major design concern for high performance
integrated circuits for the current and future technology nodes. Clock skew is an undesirable …

Revisiting automated physical synthesis of high-performance clock networks

MR Guthaus, G Wilke, R Reis - ACM Transactions on Design Automation …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
High-performance clock distribution has been a challenge for nearly three decades. During
this time, clock synthesis tools and algorithms have strove to address a myriad of important …

mDTM: Multi-objective dynamic thermal management for on-chip systems

H Khdr, T Ebi, M Shafique, H Amrouch… - … , Automation & Test …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Thermal hot spots and unbalanced temperatures between cores on chip can cause either
degradation in performance or may have a severe impact on reliability, or both. In this paper …

Configurable interconnection system

JCR Bennett - US Patent 9,465,756, 2016 - Google Patents
An interconnection system, apparatus and method is described where the motherboard may
be populated with less than all of the modules that it has been designed to accept while …

Interconnection system

JCR Bennett - US Patent 9,582,449, 2017 - Google Patents
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MEMORY, INC.)) reassignment VSIP HOLDINGS LLC (F/K/A VIOLIN SYSTEMS LLC (F/K/A …

Catching the flu: Emerging threats from a third party power management unit

R JayashankaraShridevi, C Rajamanikkam… - Proceedings of the 53rd …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Power management units (PMU) have come into the spotlight with energy efficiency
becoming a first order constraint in MPSoC designs. To cater to the exponential rise in …

Impact of power supply voltage variations on FPGA-based digital systems performance

J Freijedo, L Costas, J Semião… - Journal of Low …, 2010 - ingentaconnect.com
Power Supply Noise (PSN) may be induced by environmental or operational conditions, and
has impact on digital systems performance. Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) vendors …

AutoRex: An automated post-silicon clock tuning tool

D Tadesse, J Grodstein, RI Bahar - 2009 International Test …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Post-silicon clock-tuning is a technique used as part of speed-debug efforts to increase the
allowable clock frequency of a chip. These days, it is not uncommon for high-end …