This work presents StatCC, a simple and efficient model for estimating the shared cache miss ratios of co-scheduled applications on architectures with a hierarchy of private and shared caches. StatCC leverages the StatStack cache model to estimate the co-scheduled applications’ cache miss ratios from their individual memory reuse distance distributions, and a simple performance model that estim...

This paper presents a simple framework for computational design creativity evaluation, presenting its components with rationale. Components are linked to recent computational creativity research in both art and design. The framework assumes that the product, not the process, is being evaluated, and that evaluation is done by comparison with descriptions of existing products using a set of aspec...

Is your perfusion circuit the best that it can be? With continued decreasing reimbursements, reducing the costs associated with your perfusion circuit can have significant positive impact on the overall cost of your cardiac surgery service. Perfusion circuits are inherently deleterious. Hemodilutional and inflammatory influences translate into prolonged ventilator times, longer ICU and hospital...

Design problem-solving requires designers to be creative and to express evaluative judgments. Designers propose successive partial solutions and evaluate these solutions with respect to various criteria and constraints. Evaluation plays a major role in design because each successive evaluation step guides the course of design activity. However, evaluation of design solutions is difficult for bo...

This paper investigates specification, verification and test generation for synchronous and asynchronous circuits. The approach is called DILL (Digital Logic in LOTOS). DILL models are discussed for synchronous and asynchronous circuits. Relations for (strong) conformance are defined for verifying a design specification against a high-level specification. An algorithm is also outlined for gener...

Due to the inherent combination of image, video, audio and 3D-models in new MPEG standards like MPEG-4, robust 3D-watermarking is becoming more and more popular to ensure data authenticity and integrity. Beside the design of 3D-watermarking schemes, the evaluation is necessary. In the paper we analyze currently proposed 3D watermarking algorithms for weaknesses that may possibly be exploited in...

Traditional engineering design discipline calls for designs to be evaluated long before they are implemented. Early design evaluations predict properties of the artifact that will result from a proper implementation of the design and the value of those properties to the client or end user. The predicted properties can include costs as well as functionality, performance, and quality measures. So...

Performance is no longer the only metric dominating modern system-level design. Power is emerging as major constraint to consider during system development. Consequently, several CAD tools with power estimation capabilities in addition to performance figures have been developed. Among these tools, UNISIM is a simulation framework that enables the architects to rapidly design a new system at dif...