In this paper, we propose the first method for post-silicon customization of resource binding for low power application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) design. We devise and implement a new synthesis framework that generates a diverse set of resource binding candidates where any one of the candidates could be selected post-silicon. Orthogonal arrays are used to construct multiple candidate...

Every increase in capacity and complexity of integrated circuits has spurred the quest for ways to restrict the design space without sacrificing optimality. The microprocessor has done this in a very effective way, because it represents a general pattern to organize computation in hardware. The separation into a data-path with a number of optimized data manipulation units, a control machine tha...

It is often stated in papers that there may be a fundamental difference between current-mode and voltage-mode circuits. In this discussion paper, we show that there is no definition that would clearly divide all circuits into current-mode and voltagemode. Then we provide evidence that a voltage-mode Gm–C filter and its current-mode counterpart have the same performance. The reason why current-m...

The rapidly increasing complexity and quality requirements of integrated circuit design can only be addressed effectively by a design system architecture that supports very efficient, high-quality sharing of IC design data. The OpenAccess Coalition is delivering an industry standard Application Programming Interface (API) and Information Model (IM) that provides access to a shared database as a...

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the weight values of key factors in a manager’s leadership skills that affect job performance in the listed IC Design Houses in Taiwan. The research subjects are three of the typically listed IC design houses in Taiwan. This paper adopts Analytic Network Process (ANP) to analyze the relevance of each criterion, and to identify the important factors of ea...

In this paper, we present a new definition of Byzantine consensus that applies to blockchains, applications that allow to transfer digital assets through transactions. More precisely, a blockchain is a distributed abstraction where participants must reach a consensus on a unique block of transactions to be appended to the chain. This new consensus definition requires a validity property based o...

In this document, the hardware performances of Luffa-256 are reported. Our implementations mainly target size optimized implementations in ASIC and the smallest architecture can be implemented with only 10.3 KGE while it achieves about 500 Mbps.

{ A methodology for deriving image processing ASICs from the results of their real-time emulation on the Data-Flow Functional Computer is presented. The aim of the method is to reduce the time and eeort required for synthesizing and validating ASICs after emulation. This is achieved by optimizing the architecture validated on the emulator and integrating the optimized resources. The results of ...

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Structured ASICs (sASICs) have received a lot of attention in the media as a means of keeping the non-recurrent design engineering costs down. This paper describes the experiences of a collaborative research project between Infineon Technologies and Synopsys Inc. over the last year. We discuss a design flow based on standard Synopsys tools and a custom executable to implement sASIC blocks. We p...