Optimizations related to memory accesses and data storage make a significant difference to the performance and energy of a wide range of data-intensive applications. These techniques need to evolve with modern architectures supporting wide memory ...

Efficient exploitation of temporal locality in the memory accesses on array signals can have a very large impact on the power consumption in embedded data dominated applications. The effective use of an optimized custom memory hierarchy or a customized ...

We present an ATPG tool for functional delay faults which applies to the single-input transition (SIT) and the multi-input transition (MIT) fault models, and is based on Reduced Ordered Binary Decision Diagrams (ROBDDs). We are able, for the first time, ...

In power estimation, one is faced with two problems: (1) generating input vector sequences that satisfy a given statistical behavior (in terms of signal probabilities and correlations among bits); (2) making these sequences as short as possible so as to ...

We address the problem of code-size minimization in VLSI systems with embedded DSP processors. Reducing code size reduces the production cost of embedded systems

we use data-compression methods to develop code-size minimization strategies. In our ...