This paper presents the low power architecture and design techniques for the mobile handset LSI Medity™ M2. M2 is a second-generation mobile handset LSI which integrates a Digital baseband and Application processor on a chip. M2 is capable of supporting ...

A heterogeneous multi-core processor (HMCP) architecture, which integrates general purpose processors (CPU) and accelerators (ACC) to achieve high-performance as well as low-power consumption with the support of a parallelizing compiler, was developed. ...

As process technologies continue to shrink, and feature demands continue to increase, more and more capabilities are being pushed into smaller and smaller packages. But are we finally reaching the point where power density limitations make this trend no ...

This paper presents a new logic style, named Current-Mode Differential logic (CMDL), that achieves both high operating speed and low power consumption. Inspired by the low-voltage swing (LVS) logic, CMDL uses a shunt resistor at the differential output ...

As deep submicron technologies are advanced, we face new challenges, such as power consumption and soft errors. A naïve technique, which utilizes emerging multicore processors and relies upon thread-level redundancy to detect soft errors, is power ...

Power dissipation has become a critical design metric in microprocessor-based system design. In a multi-core system, running multiple applications, power and performance can be dynamically traded off using an integrated power management (PM) unit. This ...

Modular multiplication is the most dominant arithmetic operation in elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), which is a type of public-key cryptography. Montgomery multiplication is commonly used as a technique for the modular multiplication and required ...

In the design process of a reconfigurable accelerator employing in an embedded system, multitude parameters may result in remarkable complexity and a large design space. Design space exploration as an alternative to the quantitative approach can be ...

The flexibility, performance and cost effectiveness of reconfigurable architectures have lead to its widespread use for embedded applications. Coarse-grained reconfigurable system design is very complex for multi-fields experts to collaborate on ...

Since 2001, there have been a myriad of papers on systematic analysis of Multi-Processor System on Chip (MPSoC) and Network on Chip (NoC). Nevertheless, we only have a few of their practical application. Till now, main interest of researchers has been ...

With the increasing levels of variability in the behavior of manufactured nano-scale devices and dramatic changes in the power density on a chip, timely identification of hot spots on a chip has become a challenging task. This paper addresses the ...

The capability of predicting the temperature profile is critically important for circuit timing estimation, leakage reduction, power estimation, hotspot avoidance, and reliability concerns during modern IC designs.

This paper presents an accurate and ...

In designing energy-aware CPU scheduling algorithms for real-time embedded systems, dynamic slack reclamation techniques significantly improve system Quality-of-Service (QoS) and energy efficiency. However, the limited schemes in this domain either ...

Advances in technology have led to the development of various light-weight sensory devices that can be woven into the physical environment of our daily lives. Such systems enable on-body and mobile health-care monitoring. Our interest particularly lies ...

The information about the run-time behavior of software applications is crucial for enabling system level optimizations for embedded systems. This embedded Software Metadata information is especially important today, because several complex multi-...