Integrated Circuit and System Design. Power and Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation

Session 1 - High-Level Design (1).- System-Level Application-Specific NoC Design for Network and Multimedia Applications.- Fast and Accurate Embedded Systems Energy Characterization Using Non-intrusive Measurements.- A Flexible General-Purpose Parallelizing Architecture for Nested Loops in Reconfigurable Platforms.- An Automatic Design Flow for Mapping Application onto a 2D Mesh NoC Architecture.- Session 2 - Low Power Design Techniques.- Template Vertical Dictionary-Based Program Compression Scheme on the TTA.- Asynchronous Functional Coupling for Low Power Sensor Network Processors.- A Heuristic for Reducing Dynamic Power Dissipation in Clocked Sequential Designs.- Low-Power Content Addressable Memory With Read/Write and Matched Mask Ports.- The Design and Implementation of a Power Efficient Embedded SRAM.- Session 3 - Low Power Analog Circuits.- Design of a Linear Power Amplifier with ±1.5V Power Supply Using ALADIN.- Settling Time Minimization of Operational Amplifiers.- Low-Voltage Low-Power Curvature-Corrected Voltage Reference Circuit Using DTMOSTs.- Session 4 - Statistical Static Timing Analysis.- Computation of Joint Timing Yield of Sequential Networks Considering Process Variations.- A Simple Statistical Timing Analysis Flow and Its Application to Timing Margin Evaluation.- A Statistical Approach to the Timing-Yield Optimization of Pipeline Circuits.- Session 5 - Power Modeling and Optimization.- A Novel Gate-Level NBTI Delay Degradation Model with Stacking Effect.- Modelling the Impact of High Level Leakage Optimization Techniques on the Delay of RT-Components.- Logic Style Comparison for Ultra Low Power Operation in 65nm Technology.- Design-In Reliability for 90-65nm CMOS Nodes Submitted to Hot-Carriers and NBTI Degradation.- Session 6 - Low Power Routing Optimization.- Clock Distribution Techniques for Low-EMI Design.- Crosstalk Waveform Modeling Using Wave Fitting.- Weakness Identification for Effective Repair of Power Distribution Network.- New Adaptive Encoding Schemes for Switching Activity Balancing in On-Chip Buses.- On the Necessity of Combining Coding with Spacing and Shielding for Improving Performance and Power in Very Deep Sub-micron Interconnects.- Session 7 - High Level Design (2).- Soft Error-Aware Power Optimization Using Gate Sizing.- Automated Instruction Set Characterization and Power Profile Driven Software Optimization for Mobile Devices.- RTL Power Modeling and Estimation of Sleep Transistor Based Power Gating.- Functional Verification of Low Power Designs at RTL.- XEEMU: An Improved XScale Power Simulator.- Session 8 - Security and Asynchronous Design.- Low Power Elliptic Curve Cryptography.- Design and Test of Self-checking Asynchronous Control Circuit.- An Automatic Design Flow for Implementation of Side Channel Attacks Resistant Crypto-Chips.- Analysis and Improvement of Dual Rail Logic as a Countermeasure Against DPA.- Session 9 - Low Power Applications.- Performance Optimization of Embedded Applications in a Hybrid Reconfigurable Platform.- The Energy Scalability of Wavelet-Based, Scalable Video Decoding.- Direct Memory Access Optimization in Wireless Terminals for Reduced Memory Latency and Energy Consumption.- Poster 1 - Modeling and Optimization.- Exploiting Input Variations for Energy Reduction.- A Model of DPA Syndrome and Its Application to the Identification of Leaking Gates.- Static Power Consumption in CMOS Gates Using Independent Bodies.- Moderate Inversion: Highlights for Low Voltage Design.- On Two-Pronged Power-Aware Voltage Scheduling for Multi-processor Real-Time Systems.- Semi Custom Design: A Case Study on SIMD Shufflers.- Poster 2 - High Level Design.- Optimization for Real-Time Systems with Non-convex Power Versus Speed Models.- Triple-Threshold Static Power Minimization in High-Level Synthesis of VLSI CMOS.- A Fast and Accurate Power Estimation Methodology for QDI Asynchronous Circuits.- Subthreshold Leakage Modeling and Estimation of General CMOS Complex Gates.- A Platform for Mixed HW/SW Algorithm Specifications for the Exploration of SW and HW Partitioning.- Fast Calculation of Permissible Slowdown Factors for Hard Real-Time Systems.- Design Methodology and Software Tool for Estimation of Multi-level Instruction Cache Memory Miss Rate.- Poster 3 - Low Power Techniques and Applications.- A Statistical Model of Logic Gates for Monte Carlo Simulation Including On-Chip Variations.- Switching Activity Reduction of MAC-Based FIR Filters with Correlated Input Data.- Performance of CMOS and Floating-Gate Full-Adders Circuits at Subthreshold Power Supply.- Low-Power Digital Filtering Based on the Logarithmic Number System.- A Power Supply Selector for Energy- and Area-Efficient Local Dynamic Voltage Scaling.- Dependability Evaluation of Time-Redundancy Techniques in Integer Multipliers.- Keynotes.- Design and Industrialization Challenges of Memory Dominated SOCs.- Statistical Static Timing Analysis: A New Approach to Deal with Increased Process Variability in Advanced Nanometer Technologies.- Analog Power Modelling.- Industrial Session - Design Challenges in Real-Life Projects.- Technological Trends, Design Constraints and Design Implementation Challenges in Mobile Phone Platforms.- System Design from Instrument Level Down to ASIC Transistors with Speed and Low Power as Driving Parameters.