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The 13th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference
Technical Program

Remark: The presenter of each paper is marked with "*".
Technical Program:   SIMPLE version   DETAILED version with abstract
Author Index:   HERE

Session Schedule


Tuesday, January 22, 2008

ABCD
Op (Room 409)
Opening Ceremony
08:30 - 09:00
1K (Room 409)
Keynote Session I

09:00 - 10:00
Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:15
1A (Room 310A)
New Challenges in High Level Synthesis

10:15 - 12:20
1B (Room 310BC)
Power and Thermal Modeling and Optimization

10:15 - 12:20
1C (Room 311A)
Emerging Technologies

10:15 - 12:20
1D (Room 311BC)
University LSI Design Contest

10:15 - 12:20
Lunch
12:20 - 13:30
2A (Room 310A)
Advanced Topic in Logic Synthesis

13:30 - 15:35
2B (Room 310BC)
Interconnect Modeling and Simulation Techniques

13:30 - 15:35
2C (Room 311A)
Floorplanning

13:30 - 15:35
2D (Room 311BC)
Special Session - Tackling Manufacturability/Variability for 32nm and Below

13:30 - 15:35
Coffee Break
15:35 - 15:50
3A (Room 310A)
Routing

15:50 - 17:55
3B (Room 310BC)
Interconnect, NoCs, and MPSoCs

15:50 - 17:30

3D (Room 311A+311BC)
Special Session (Panel) The Tears and Joy of Sowing and Reaping Complex SoC's

15:50 - 17:55



Wednesday, January 23, 2008

ABCD
2K (Room 409)
Keynote Session II

9:00 - 10:00
Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:15
4A (Room 310A)
Variability Issues in Timing

10:15 - 12:20
4B (Room 310BC)
Memory and Processor Optimization

10:15 - 12:20
4C (Room 311A)
New Techniques for Physical Design Optimization

10:15 - 12:20
4D (Room 311BC)
Designers' Forum - New Emerging Application Areas for Future SoC

10:15 - 12:20
Lunch
12:20 - 13:30
5A (Room 310A)
Techniques for Formal and Simulation-Based Varification

13:30 - 15:35
5B (Room 310BC)
Power and Performance Optimization for Embedded Systems

13:30 - 15:35
5C (Room 311A)
Thermal Analysis and DFM

13:30 - 15:35
5D (Room 311BC)
Designers' Forum (Panel) Are System Level EDA Tools/Methodologies Coming?

13:30 - 15:35
Coffee Break
15:35 - 15:50
6A (Room 310A)
Trends in Timing

15:50 - 17:55
6B (Room 310BC)
Statistical Modeling and Yield Prediction

15:50 - 17:55

6D (Room 311A+311BC)
Special Session - How to Design Cool Chips for Hot Products

15:50 - 17:55



Thursday, January 24, 2008

ABCD
3K (Room 409)
Keynote Session III

9:00 - 10:00
Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:15
7A (Room 310A)
Reliable/Testable Design Techniques

10:15 - 12:20
7B (Room 310BC)
Communication and Interfaces

10:15 - 12:20
7C (Room 311A)
Power: Delivery and Reduction

10:15 - 12:20
7D (Room 311BC)
Special Session (Panel) Concurrent SoC and SiP Designs

10:15 - 12:20
Lunch
12:20 - 13:30
8A (Room 310A)
Test Generation and Test Power

13:30 - 15:35
8B (Room 310BC)
Design Space Exploration

13:30 - 15:35
8C (Room 311A)
Reliability and Power Management

13:30 - 15:35
8D (Room 311BC)
Designers' Forum - Low Power Chips

13:30 - 15:35
Coffee Break
15:35 - 15:50
9A (Room 310A)
Analog/RF/Mixed Signal CAD

15:50 - 17:55
9B (Room 310BC)
Architecture Exploration

15:50 - 17:55

9D (Room 311BC)
Designers' Forum (Panel) Best Ways to Use Billions of Devices on a Chip

15:50 - 17:55



List of Papers

Remark: The presenter of each paper is marked with "*".

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Session 1K  Keynote Session I
Time: 09:00 - 10:00 Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Location: Room 409
Chair: Chong-Min Kyung (KAIST, Republic of Korea)

1K-1 (Time: 09:00 - 10:00)
Title(Keynote Address) A Brand New Wireless Day
Author*Jan M. Rabaey (Univ. of California, Berkeley, United States)
Pagep. 1
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Session 1A  New Challenges in High Level Synthesis
Time: 10:15 - 12:20 Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Location: Room 310A
Chairs: Taewhan Kim (Seoul Nat'l Univ., Republic of Korea), Kazutoshi Wakabayashi (NEC, Japan)

1A-1 (Time: 10:15 - 10:40)
TitleVariability-Driven Module Selection with Joint Design Time Optimization and Post-Silicon Tuning
AuthorFeng Wang, *Xiaoxia Wu, Yuan Xie (Pennsylvania State Univ., United States)
Pagepp. 2 - 9
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1A-2 (Time: 10:40 - 11:05)
TitleBehavioral Synthesis with Activating Unused Flip-Flops for Reducing Glitch Power in FPGA
Author*Cheng-Tao Hsieh (Nat'l Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan), Jason Cong, Zhiru Zhang (Univ. of California, Los Angeles, United States), Shih-Chieh Chang (Nat'l Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan)
Pagepp. 10 - 15
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1A-3 (Time: 11:05 - 11:30)
TitleA Multicycle Communication Architecture and Synthesis Flow for Global Interconnect Resource Sharing
AuthorWei-Sheng Huang, Yu-Ru Hong, Juinn-Dar Huang, *Ya-Shih Huang (Nat'l Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan)
Pagepp. 16 - 21
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1A-4 (Time: 11:30 - 11:55)
TitleScheduling with Integer Time Budgeting for Low-Power Optimization
AuthorWei Jiang, Zhiru Zhang, Miodrag Potkonjak, *Jason Cong (Univ. of California, Los Angeles, United States)
Pagepp. 22 - 27
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1A-5 (Time: 11:55 - 12:08)
TitleREWIRED - Register Write Inhibition by Resource Dedication
Author*Pushkar Tripathi, Rohan Jain (Indian Inst. of Tech. Delhi, India), Srikanth Kurra (Oracle, India), Preeti Ranjan Panda (Indian Inst. of Tech. Delhi, India)
Pagepp. 28 - 31
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1A-6 (Time: 12:08 - 12:21)
TitleAn Efficient Performance Improvement Method Utilizing Specialized Functional Units in Behavioral Synthesis
Author*Tsuyoshi Sadakata, Yusuke Matsunaga (Kyushu Univ., Japan)
Pagepp. 32 - 35
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Session 1B  Power and Thermal Modeling and Optimization
Time: 10:15 - 12:20 Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Location: Room 310BC
Chairs: Joerg Henkel (Karlsruhe Univ., Germany), Eui-Young Chung (Yonsei Univ., Republic of Korea)

1B-1 (Time: 10:15 - 10:40)
TitlePredictive Power Aware Management for Embedded Mobile Devices
Author*Young-Si Hwang, Sung-Kwan Ku, Chan-Min Jung, Ki-Seok Chung (Hanyang Univ., Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 36 - 41
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1B-2 (Time: 10:40 - 11:05)
TitleA Dynamic-Programming Algorithm for Reducing the Energy Consumption of Pipelined System-Level Streaming Applications
AuthorN. Liveris, *H. Zhou (Northwestern Univ., United States), P. Banerjee (HP Labs, United States)
Pagepp. 42 - 48
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1B-3 (Time: 11:05 - 11:30)
TitleTemperature-Aware MPSoC Scheduling for Reducing Hot Spots and Gradients
Author*Ayse Kivilcim Coskun, Tajana Simunic Rosing (Univ. of California, San Diego, United States), Keith A. Whisnant, Kenny C. Gross (Sun Microsystems, United States)
Pagepp. 49 - 54
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1B-4 (Time: 11:30 - 11:55)
TitleRun-Time Power Gating of On-Chip Routers Using Look-Ahead Routing
Author*Hiroki Matsutani (Keio Univ., Japan), Michihiro Koibuchi (Nat'l Inst. of Informatics, Japan), Daihan Wang, Hideharu Amano (Keio Univ., Japan)
Pagepp. 55 - 60
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1B-5 (Time: 11:55 - 12:08)
TitleAutomated Techniques for Energy Efficient Scheduling on Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Chip Multi-Processor Architectures
Author*Sushu Zhang, Karam S. Chatha (Arizona State Univ., United States)
Pagepp. 61 - 66
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1B-6 (Time: 12:08 - 12:21)
TitleStatistical Power Profile Correlation for Realistic Thermal Estimation
Author*Love Singhal (Univ. of California, Irvine, United States), Sejong Oh (KAIST, Republic of Korea), Eli Bozorgzadeh (Univ. of California, Irvine, United States)
Pagepp. 67 - 70
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Session 1C  Emerging Technologies
Time: 10:15 - 12:20 Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Location: Room 311A
Chairs: Li Shang (Queen's Univ., Canada), Chao Huang (Virginia Tech, United States)

1C-1 (Time: 10:15 - 10:40)
TitleReconfigurable RTD-Based Circuit Elements of Complete Logic Functionality
Author*Yexin Zheng, Chao Huang (Virginia Tech., United States)
Pagepp. 71 - 76
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1C-2 (Time: 10:40 - 11:05)
TitleMBARC: A Scalable Memory Based Reconfigurable Computing Framework for Nanoscale Devices
AuthorSomnath Paul, *Swarup Bhunia (Case Western Reserve Univ., United States)
Pagepp. 77 - 82
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1C-3 (Time: 11:05 - 11:30)
TitleMoving Forward: A Non-Search Based Synthesis Method Toward Efficient CNOT-Based Quantum Circuit Synthesis Algorithms
Author*Mehdi Saeedi, Morteza Saheb Zamani, Mehdi Sedighi (Amirkabir Univ. of Tech., Iran)
Pagepp. 83 - 88
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1C-4 (Time: 11:30 - 11:55)
TitleA CAD Tool for RF MEMS Devices
Author*Rajesh Pande, Rajendra Patrikar (Visvesvaraya Nat'l Inst. of Tech., India)
Pagepp. 89 - 94
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Session 1D  University LSI Design Contest
Time: 10:15 - 12:20 Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Location: Room 311BC
Chairs: Kenichi Okada (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan), Hiroshi Kawaguchi (Kobe Univ., Japan)

1D-1 (Time: 10:15 - 10:22)
TitleA 1.2GHz Delayed Clock Generator for High-speed Microprocessors
Author*Inhwa Jung, Moo-Young Kim, Chulwoo Kim (Korea Univ., Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 95 - 96
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1D-2 (Time: 10:22 - 10:29)
TitleLVDS-Type On-Chip Transmision Line Interconnect with Passive Equalizers in 90 nm CMOS Process
Author*Akiko Mineyama, Hiroyuki Ito, Takahiro Ishii, Kenichi Okada, Kazuya Masu (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)
Pagepp. 97 - 98
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1D-3 (Time: 10:29 - 10:36)
TitleA Slew-Rate Controlled Output Driver with One-Cycle Tuning Time
Author*Young-Ho Kwak, Inhwa Jung, Chulwoo Kim (Korea Univ., Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 99 - 100
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1D-4 (Time: 10:36 - 10:43)
TitleA Low-Leakage Current Power 180-nm CMOS SRAM
Author*Tadayoshi Enomoto, Yuki Higuchi (Chuo Univ., Japan)
Pagepp. 101 - 102
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1D-5 (Time: 10:43 - 10:50)
TitleA CMOS Direct Sampling Mixer Using Switched Capacitor Filter Technique for Software-Defined Radio
Author*Hong Phuc Ninh, Takashi Moue, Takashi Kurashina, Kenichi Okada, Akira Matsuzawa (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)
Pagepp. 103 - 104
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1D-6 (Time: 10:50 - 10:57)
TitleSmall-Area CMOS RF Distributed Mixer Using Multi-Port Inductors
Author*Susumu Sadoshima, Satoshi Fukuda, Tackya Yammouch, Hiroyuki Ito, Kenichi Okada, Kazuya Masu (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)
Pagepp. 105 - 106
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1D-7 (Time: 10:57 - 11:04)
TitleDynamic Supply Noise Measurement Circuit Composed of Standard Cells Suitable for In-Site SoC Power Integrity Verification
Author*Yasuhiro Ogasahara, Masanori Hashimoto, Takao Onoye (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Pagepp. 107 - 108
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1D-8 (Time: 11:04 - 11:11)
TitleDuo-Binary Circular Turbo Decoder Based on Border Metric Encoding for WiMAX
Author*Ji-Hoon Kim, In-Cheol Park (KAIST, Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 109 - 110
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1D-9 (Time: 11:11 - 11:18)
TitleArea and Power Efficient Design of Coarse Time Synchronizer and Frequency Offset Estimator for Fixed WiMAX System
Author*Tae-Hwan Kim, In-Cheol Park (KAIST, Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 111 - 112
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1D-10 (Time: 11:18 - 11:25)
TitleA Low-Cost Cryptographic Processor for Security Embedded System
Author*Ronghua Lu, Jun Han, Xiaoyang Zeng, Qing Li, Lang Mai, Jia Zhao (Fudan Univ., China)
Pagepp. 113 - 114
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1D-11 (Time: 11:25 - 11:32)
TitleMultithreaded Coprocessor Interface for Multi-Core Multimedia SoC
Author*Shih Hao Ou, Tay-Jyi Lin, Xiang Sheng Deng, Zhi Hong Zhuo, Chih Wei Liu (Nat'l Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan)
Pagepp. 115 - 116
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1D-12 (Time: 11:32 - 11:39)
TitleParameterized Embedded In-circuit Emulator and Its Retargetable Debugging Software for Microprocessor/Microcontroller/DSP Processor
Author*Liang-Bi Chen, Yung-Chih Liu, Chien-Hung Chen, Chung-Fu Kao, Ing-Jer Huang (Nat'l Sun Yat-Sen Univ., Taiwan)
Pagepp. 117 - 118
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Session 2A  Advanced Topic in Logic Synthesis
Time: 13:30 - 15:35 Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Location: Room 310A
Chairs: Shih-Chieh Chang (Nat'l Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan), In-Cheol Park (KAIST, Republic of Korea)

2A-1 (Time: 13:30 - 13:55)
TitleGlobal Optimization of Common Subexpressions for Multiplierless Synthesis of Multiple Constant Multiplications
AuthorYuen-Hong Alvin Ho, Chi-Un Lei, *Hing-Kit Kwan, Ngai Wong (Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Pagepp. 119 - 124
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2A-2 (Time: 13:55 - 14:20)
TitleDecomposition Based Approach for Synthesis of Multi-Level Threshold Logic Circuits
AuthorTejaswi Gowda, *Sarma Vrudhula (Arizona State Univ., United States)
Pagepp. 125 - 130
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2A-3 (Time: 14:20 - 14:45)
TitleTiming-Power Optimization for Mixed-Radix Ling Adders by Integer Linear Programming
Author*Yi Zhu, Jianhua Liu, Haikun Zhu, Chung-Kuan Cheng (Univ. of California, San Diego, United States)
Pagepp. 131 - 137
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2A-4 (Time: 14:45 - 15:10)
TitleEfficient Synthesis of Compressor Trees on FPGAs
AuthorHadi Parandeh-Afshar (Univ. of Tehran, Iran), *Philip Brisk, Paolo Ienne (EPFL, Switzerland)
Pagepp. 138 - 143
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2A-5 (Time: 15:10 - 15:23)
TitleArea Recovery under Depth Constraint by Cut Substitution for Technology Mapping for LUT-Based FPGAs
Author*Taiga Takata, Yusuke Matsunaga (Kyushu Univ., Japan)
Pagepp. 144 - 147
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2A-6 (Time: 15:23 - 15:36)
TitleAn Optimal Algorithm for Sizing Sequential Circuits for Industrial Library Based Designs
AuthorSanghamitra Roy, Yu Hen Hu (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, United States), *Charlie Chung-Ping Chen, Shih-Pin Hung, Tse-Yu Chiang, Jiuan-Guei Tseng (Nat'l Taiwan Univ., Taiwan)
Pagepp. 148 - 151
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Session 2B  Interconnect Modeling and Simulation Techniques
Time: 13:30 - 15:35 Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Location: Room 310BC
Chairs: Yungseon Eo (Hanyang Univ., Republic of Korea), Yokomizo Goichi (STARC, Japan)

2B-1 (Time: 13:30 - 13:55)
TitleEfficient Numerical Modeling of Random Rough Surface Effects for Interconnect Internal Impedance Extraction
Author*Quan Chen, Ngai Wong (Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Pagepp. 152 - 157
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2B-2 (Time: 13:55 - 14:20)
TitleEfficient Techniques for 3-D Impedance Extraction Using Mixed Boundary Element Method
Author*Fang Gong, Wenjian Yu, Zeyi Wang, Zhiping Yu (Tsinghua Univ., China), Changhao Yan (Fudan Univ., China)
Pagepp. 158 - 163
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2B-3 (Time: 14:20 - 14:45)
TitleGenerating Stable and Sparse Reluctance/Inductance Matrix under Insufficient Conditions
Author*Yuichi Tanji (Kagawa Univ., Japan), Takayuki Watanabe (Univ. of Shizuoka, Japan), Hideki Asai (Shizuoka Univ., Japan)
Pagepp. 164 - 169
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2B-4 (Time: 14:45 - 15:10)
TitleHierarchical Krylov Subspace Reduced Order Modeling of Large RLC Circuits
AuthorDuo Li, *Sheldon X.-D. Tan (Univ. of California, Riverside, United States)
Pagepp. 170 - 175
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2B-5 (Time: 15:10 - 15:35)
TitleStatistical Noise Margin Estimation for Sub-Threshold Combinational Circuits
Author*Yu Pu (Tech. Univ. Eindhoven, Netherlands), Jose Pineda de Gyvez (NXP Research Eindhoven, Netherlands), Henk Corporaal (Tech. Univ. Eindhoven, Netherlands), Yajun Ha (Nat'l Univ. of Singapore, Singapore)
Pagepp. 176 - 179
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Session 2C  Floorplanning
Time: 13:30 - 15:35 Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Location: Room 311A
Chairs: Shin'ichi Wakabayashi (Hiroshima City Univ., Japan), Ting-Chi Wang (Nat'l Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan)

2C-1 (Time: 13:30 - 13:55)
TitleSymmetry-Aware Placement with Transitive Closure Graphs for Analog Layout Design
Author*Lihong Zhang (Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland, Canada), C.-J. Richard Shi (Univ. of Washington, United States), Yingtao Jiang (Univ. of Nevada, United States)
Pagepp. 180 - 185
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2C-2 (Time: 13:55 - 14:20)
TitleConstraint-Free Analog Placement with Topological Symmetry Structure
Author*Qing Dong, Shigetoshi Nakatake (Univ. of Kitakyushu, Japan)
Pagepp. 186 - 191
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2C-3 (Time: 14:20 - 14:45)
TitleTCG-Based Muli-Bend Bus Driven Floorplanning
AuthorTilen Ma, *Evangeline F. Y. Young (The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Pagepp. 192 - 197
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2C-4 (Time: 14:45 - 15:10)
TitleLarge-Scale Fixed-Outline Floorplanning Design Using Convex Optimization Techniques
Author*Chaomin Luo, Miguel F. Anjos (Univ. of Waterloo, Canada), Anthony Vannelli (Univ. of Guelph, Canada)
Pagepp. 198 - 203
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2C-5 (Time: 15:10 - 15:23)
TitleBus-Aware Microarchitectural Floorplanning
AuthorDae Hyun Kim, *Sung Kyu Lim (Georgia Inst. of Tech., United States)
Pagepp. 204 - 208
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2C-6 (Time: 15:23 - 15:36)
TitleLP Based White Space Redistribution for Thermal Via Planning and Performance Optimization in 3D ICs
Author*Xin Li, Yuchun Ma, Xianlong Hong, Sheqin Dong (Tsinghua Univ., China), Jason Cong (Univ. of California, Los Angeles, United States)
Pagepp. 209 - 212
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Session 2D  Special Session - Tackling Manufacturability/Variability for 32nm and Below
Time: 13:30 - 15:35 Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Location: Room 311BC
Chair: Dale Edwards (Semiconductor Research, United States)

2D-2
Title(Invited Paper) Predictive Models and CAD Methodology for Pattern Dependent Variability
Author*Nishath Verghese, Richard Rouse, Philippe Hurat (Cadence Design Systems, United States)
Pagepp. 213 - 218
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2D-3
Title(Invited Paper) Technology Modeling and Characterization Beyond the 45nm Node
Author*Sani R. Nassif (IBM, United States)
Pagep. 219
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2D-4
Title(Invited Paper) Synergistic Physical Synthesis for Manufacturability and Variability in 45nm Designs and Beyond
Author*David Z. Pan, Minsik Cho (Univ. of Texas, Austin, United States)
Pagepp. 220 - 225
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Session 3A  Routing
Time: 15:50 - 17:55 Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Location: Room 310A
Chairs: Atsushi Takahashi (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan), Jung Dong Cho (Sungkyunkwan Univ., Republic of Korea)

3A-1 (Time: 15:50 - 16:15)
TitleMaizeRouter: Engineering an Effective Global Router
Author*Michael D. Moffitt (IBM, United States)
Pagepp. 226 - 231
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3A-2 (Time: 16:15 - 16:40)
TitleA New Global Router for Modern Designs
Author*Jhih-Rong Gao, Pei-Ci Wu (Synopsys, Taiwan), Ting-Chi Wang (Nat'l Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan)
Pagepp. 232 - 237
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3A-3 (Time: 16:40 - 17:05)
TitleRoutability Driven Modification Method of Monotonic Via Assignment for 2-Layer Ball Grid Array Packages
Author*Yoichi Tomioka, Atsushi Takahashi (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)
Pagepp. 238 - 243
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3A-4 (Time: 17:05 - 17:30)
TitleOrdered Escape Routing Based on Boolean Satisfiability
AuthorLijuan Luo, *Martin D.F. Wong (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, United States)
Pagepp. 244 - 249
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3A-5 (Time: 17:30 - 17:55)
TitleMeshWorks: An Efficient Framework for Planning, Synthesis and Optimization of Clock Mesh Networks
Author*Anand Rajaram, David Z. Pan (Univ. of Texas, Austin, United States)
Pagepp. 250 - 257
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Session 3B  Interconnect, NoCs, and MPSoCs
Time: 15:50 - 17:30 Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Location: Room 310BC
Chairs: Sungjoo Yoo (Samsung Electronics, Republic of Korea), Sungchan Kim (Seoul Nat'l Univ., Republic of Korea)

3B-1 (Time: 15:50 - 16:15)
TitleInterconnect Modeling for Improved System-Level Design Optimization
AuthorLuca Carloni (Columbia Univ., United States), Andrew B. Kahng, Swamy Muddu (Univ. of California, San Diego, United States), Alessandro Pinto (Univ. of California, Berkeley, United States), *Kambiz Samadi, Puneet Sharma (Univ. of California, San Diego, United States)
Pagepp. 258 - 264
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3B-2 (Time: 16:15 - 16:40)
TitleNoCOUT : NoC Topology Generation with Mixed Packet-Switched and Point-to-Point Networks
AuthorJeremy Chan, *Sri Parameswaran (Univ. of New South Wales, Australia)
Pagepp. 265 - 270
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3B-3 (Time: 16:40 - 17:05)
TitleAutomatic Generation of Hardware dependent Software for MPSoCs from Abstract System Specifications
Author*Gunar Schirner, Andreas Gerstlauer, Rainer Dömer (Univ. of California, Irvine, United States)
Pagepp. 271 - 276
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3B-4 (Time: 17:05 - 17:30)
TitleApplication-Specific Network-on-Chip Architecture Synthesis Based on Set Partitions and Steiner Trees
Author*Shan Yan, Bill Lin (Univ. of California, San Diego, United States)
Pagepp. 277 - 282
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Session 3D  Special Session (Panel) The Tears and Joy of Sowing and Reaping Complex SoC's
Time: 15:50 - 17:55 Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Location: Room 311A+311BC
Chair: Ing-Jer Huang (Nat'l Sun Yat-Sen Univ., Taiwan)

3D-2
Title(Invited Paper) Floating-Point Reconfiguration Array Processor for 3D Graphics Physics Engine
Author*Hoonmo Yang (Core Logic, Republic of Korea)
Pagep. 283
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3D-5
Title(Invited Paper) Super-K: A SoC for Single-chip Ultra Mobile Computer
Author*Xu Cheng (Peking Univ., China)
Pagep. 284
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3D-6
Title(Panel Discussion) The Tears and Joy of Sowing and Reaping Complex SoC's
AuthorModerator: Ing-Jer Huang (Nat'l Sun Yat-Sen Univ., Taiwan), Panelists: Youn-Long Lin (Nat'l Tsing Hua Univ./Global UniChip, Taiwan), Hoonmo Yang (Core Logic, Republic of Korea), Toshihiro Hattori (Renesas, Japan), Ahmed Jarraya (CEA-LETI, MINATEC, France), Xu Chen (Peking Univ., China)
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Session 2K  Keynote Session II
Time: 9:00 - 10:00 Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Location: Room 409
Chair: Kiyoung Choi (Seoul Nat'l Univ., Republic of Korea)

2K-1 (Time: 9:00 - 10:00)
Title(Keynote Address) The Evolution of SoC Platform According to the New Mobile Paradigm
AuthorKi-Soo Hwang (Core Logic, Republic of Korea)
Pagep. 285
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Session 4A  Variability Issues in Timing
Time: 10:15 - 12:20 Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Location: Room 310A
Chairs: Masanori Hashimoto (Osaka Univ., Japan), Janet Wang (Univ. of Arizona, United States)

4A-1 (Time: 10:15 - 10:40)
TitleStatistical Gate Delay Model for Multiple Input Switching
Author*Takayuki Fukuoka, Akira Tsuchiya, Hidetoshi Onodera (Kyoto Univ., Japan)
Pagepp. 286 - 291
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4A-2 (Time: 10:40 - 11:05)
TitleNon-Gaussian Statistical Timing Models of Die-to-Die and Within-Die Parameter Variations for Full Chip Analysis
Author*Katsumi Homma, Izumi Nitta, Toshiyuki Shibuya (Fujitsu Labs., Japan)
Pagepp. 292 - 297
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4A-3 (Time: 11:05 - 11:30)
TitleNon-Gaussian Statistical Timing Analysis Using Second-Order Polynomial Fitting
AuthorLerong Cheng (Univ. of California, Los Angeles, United States), *Jinjun Xiong (IBM, United States), Lei He (Univ. of California, Los Angeles, United States)
Pagepp. 298 - 303
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4A-4 (Time: 11:30 - 11:55)
TitleA Capacitive Boosted Buffer Technique for High-Speed Process-Variation-Tolerant Interconnect in UDVS Application
AuthorSaihua Lin, *Yu Wang, Rong Luo, Huazhong Yang (Tsinghua Univ., China)
Pagepp. 304 - 309
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4A-5 (Time: 11:55 - 12:20)
TitleStatic Timing: Back to Our Roots
AuthorRuiming Chen, Lizheng Zhang, Vladimir Zolotov, Chandu Visweswariah, *Jinjun Xiong (IBM, United States)
Pagepp. 310 - 315
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Session 4B  Memory and Processor Optimization
Time: 10:15 - 12:20 Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Location: Room 310BC
Chairs: Jeonghun Cho (Kyungpook Nat'l Univ., Republic of Korea), Hiroyuki Tomiyama (Nagoya Univ., Japan)

4B-1 (Time: 10:15 - 10:40)
TitleSynthesis and Design of Parameter Extractors for Low-Power Pre-computation-Based Content-Addressable Memory Using Gate-Block Selection Algorithm
Author*Jui-Yuan Hsieh, Shanq-Jang Ruan (Nat'l Taiwan Univ. of Science and Tech., Taiwan)
Pagepp. 316 - 321
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4B-2 (Time: 10:40 - 11:05)
TitleBlock Cache for Embedded Systems
Author*Dominic Hillenbrand, Jörg Henkel (Univ. of Karlsruhe (TH), Germany)
Pagepp. 322 - 327
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4B-3 (Time: 11:05 - 11:30)
TitleA Compiler-in-the-Loop Framework to Explore Horizontally Partitioned Cache Architectures
Author*Aviral Shrivastava (Arizona State Univ., United States), Ilya Issenin, Nikil Dutt (Univ. of California, Irvine, United States)
Pagepp. 328 - 333
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4B-4 (Time: 11:30 - 11:55)
TitleFast, Quasi-Optimal, and Pipelined Instruction-Set Extensions
Author*Ajay K. Verma, Philip Brisk, Paolo Ienne (EPFL, Switzerland)
Pagepp. 334 - 339
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4B-5 (Time: 11:55 - 12:20)
TitleLoad Scheduling: Reducing Pressure on Distributed Register Files for Free
Author*Mei Wen, Nan Wu, Maolin Guan, Chunyuan Zhang (Nat'l Univ. of Defense Tech., China)
Pagepp. 340 - 345
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Session 4C  New Techniques for Physical Design Optimization
Time: 10:15 - 12:20 Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Location: Room 311A
Chairs: Evangeline F.Y. Young (The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Sherief Reda (Brown Univ., United States)

4C-1 (Time: 10:15 - 10:40)
TitleDPlace2.0: A Stable and Efficient Analytical Placement Based on Diffusion
AuthorTao Luo, *David Z. Pan (Univ. of Texas, Austin, United States)
Pagepp. 346 - 351
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4C-2 (Time: 10:40 - 11:05)
TitleTotal Power Optimization Combining Placement, Sizing and Multi-Vt Through Slack Distribution Management
AuthorTao Luo (Univ. of Texas, Austin, United States), David Newmark (Advanced Micro Devices, United States), *David Z. Pan (Univ. of Texas, Austin, United States)
Pagepp. 352 - 357
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4C-3 (Time: 11:05 - 11:30)
TitleAn Innovative Steiner Tree Based Approach for Polygon Partitioning
AuthorYongqiang Lu, *Qing Su, Jamil Kawa (Synopsys, United States)
Pagepp. 358 - 363
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4C-4 (Time: 11:30 - 11:55)
TitleAn MILP-Based Wire Spreading Algorithm for PSM-Aware Layout Modification
Author*Ming-Chao Tsai, Yung-Chia Lin, Ting-Chi Wang (Nat'l Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan)
Pagepp. 364 - 369
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4C-5 (Time: 11:55 - 12:08)
TitleLow Power Clock Buffer Planning Methodology in F-D Placement for Large Scale Circuit Design
Author*Yanfeng Wang, Qiang Zhou, Yici Cai (Tsinghua Univ., China), Jiang Hu (Texas A&M Univ., United States), Xianlong Hong, Jinian Bian (Tsinghua Univ., China)
Pagepp. 370 - 375
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4C-6 (Time: 12:08 - 12:21)
TitlePower Grid Analysis Benchmarks
Author*Sani R. Nassif (IBM, United States)
Pagepp. 376 - 381
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Session 4D  Designers' Forum - New Emerging Application Areas for Future SoC
Time: 10:15 - 12:20 Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Location: Room 311BC
Chair: Sungjoo Yoo (Samsung Electronics, Republic of Korea)

4D-1
Title(Invited Paper) In-band Mobile Digital TV Transmission Technology for Advanced Television Systems Committee
Author*Junehee Lee (Samsung Electronics, Republic of Korea)
Pagep. 382
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4D-2
Title(Invited Paper) In-Vehicle Vision Processors for Driver Assistance Systems
Author*Shorin Kyo, Shin’ichiro Okazaki (NEC, Japan)
Pagepp. 383 - 388
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4D-3
Title(Invited Paper) Multi-Core DSP for Base Stations: Large and Small
Author*Doug Pulley (picoChip, Great Britain)
Pagepp. 389 - 391
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4D-4
Title(Invited Paper) 1-cc Computer Using UWB-IR for Wireless Sensor Network
Author*Tatsuo Nakagawa, Masayuki Miyazaki, Goichi Ono, Ryosuke Fujiwara, Takayasu Norimatsu, Takahide Terada (Hitachi, Japan), Akira Maeki, Yuji Ogata, Shinsuke Kobayashi, Noboru Koshizuka, Ken Sakamura (YRP Ubiquitous Networking Lab., Japan)
Pagepp. 392 - 397
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Session 5A  Techniques for Formal and Simulation-Based Varification
Time: 13:30 - 15:35 Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Location: Room 310A
Chairs: Sherief Reda (Brown Univ., United States), Jin-Young Choi (Korea Univ., Republic of Korea)

5A-1 (Time: 13:30 - 13:55)
TitleVerifying Full-Custom Multipliers by Boolean Equivalence Checking and an Arithmetic Bit Level Proof
Author*Udo Krautz, Markus Wedler, Wolfgang Kunz (Univ. Kaiserslautern, Germany), Kai Weber, Christian Jacobi, Matthias Pflanz (IBM, Germany)
Pagepp. 398 - 403
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5A-2 (Time: 13:55 - 14:20)
TitleA Symbolic Approach for Mixed-Signal Model Checking
Author*Alexander Jesser, Lars Hedrich (Univ. of Frankfurt a.M., Germany)
Pagepp. 404 - 409
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5A-3 (Time: 14:20 - 14:45)
TitleFaster Projection Based Methods for Circuit Level Verification
Author*Chao Yan, Mark Greenstreet (Univ. of British Columbia, Canada)
Pagepp. 410 - 415
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5A-4 (Time: 14:45 - 15:10)
TitleA Debug Probe for Concurrently Debugging Multiple Embedded Cores and Inter-Core Transactions in NoC-Based Systems
AuthorShan Tang, *Qiang Xu (Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Pagepp. 416 - 421
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5A-5 (Time: 15:10 - 15:23)
TitleA Fast Two-Pass HDL Simulation with On-Demand Dump
Author*Kyuho Shim (Pusan Nat'l Univ., Republic of Korea), Youngrae Cho, Namdo Kim (Samsung Electronics, Republic of Korea), Hyuncheol Baik, Kyungkuk Kim, Dusung Kim (Pusan Nat'l Univ., Republic of Korea), Jaebum Kim, Byeongun Min, Kyumyung Choi (Samsung Electronics, Republic of Korea), Maciej Ciesielski (Logic-Mill Technology LLC, United States), Seiyang Yang (Pusan Nat'l Univ., Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 422 - 427
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Session 5B  Power and Performance Optimization for Embedded Systems
Time: 13:30 - 15:35 Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Location: Room 310BC
Chairs: Naehyuck Chang (Seoul Nat'l Univ., Republic of Korea), Tohru Ishihara (Kyushu Univ., Japan)

5B-1 (Time: 13:30 - 13:55)
TitleHybrid Solid-State Disks: Combining Heterogeneous NAND Flash in Large SSDs
Author*Li-Pin Chang (Nat'l Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan)
Pagepp. 428 - 433
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5B-2 (Time: 13:55 - 14:20)
TitleEnabling Run-Time Memory Data Transfer Optimizations at the System Level with Automated Extraction of Embedded Software Metadata Information
Author*Alexandros Bartzas (Democritus Univ. of Thrace, Greece), Miguel Peon-Quiros (Univ. Complutense de Madrid, Spain), Stylianos Mamagkakis, Francky Catthoor (IMEC vzw, Belgium), Dimitrios Soudris (Democritus Univ. of Thrace, Greece), Jose Manuel Mendias (Univ. Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
Pagepp. 434 - 439
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5B-3 (Time: 14:20 - 14:45)
TitleAutomatic Re-Coding of Reference Code into Structured and Analyzable SoC Models
AuthorPramod Chandraiah, *Rainer Dömer (Univ. of California, Irvine, United States)
Pagepp. 440 - 445
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5B-4 (Time: 14:45 - 15:10)
TitleAction Coverage Formulation for Power Optimization in Body Sensor Networks
AuthorHassan Ghasemzadeh, *Eric Guenterberg, Katherine Gilani, Roozbeh Jafari (Univ. of Texas, Dallas, United States)
Pagepp. 446 - 451
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5B-5 (Time: 15:10 - 15:23)
TitleDynamic Scheduling of Imprecise-Computation Tasks in Maximizing QoS under Energy Constraints for Embedded Systems
Author*Heng Yu, Bharadwaj Veeravalli, Yajun Ha (Nat'l Univ. of Singapore, Singapore)
Pagepp. 452 - 455
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Session 5C  Thermal Analysis and DFM
Time: 13:30 - 15:35 Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Location: Room 311A
Chairs: Takashi Sato (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan), Hideki Asai (Shizuoka Univ., Japan)

5C-1 (Time: 13:30 - 13:55)
TitleArchitecture-level Thermal Behavioral Characterization For Multi-Core Microprocessors
AuthorDuo Li, *Sheldon X.-D. Tan (Univ. of California, Riverside, United States), Murli Tirumala (Intel, United States)
Pagepp. 456 - 461
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5C-2 (Time: 13:55 - 14:20)
TitleFull-Chip Thermal Analysis for the Early Design Stage via Generalized Integral Transforms
Author*Pei-Yu Huang, Chih-Kang Lin, Yu-Min Lee (Nat'l Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan)
Pagepp. 462 - 467
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5C-3 (Time: 14:20 - 14:45)
TitleA Stochastic Local Hot Spot Alerting Technique
AuthorHwisung Jung, *Massoud Pedram (Univ. of Southern California, United States)
Pagepp. 468 - 473
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5C-4 (Time: 14:45 - 15:10)
TitleDesign Rule Optimization of Regular layout for Leakage Reduction in Nanoscale Design
AuthorAnupama R. Subramaniam, Ritu Singhal, *Chi-Chao Wang, Yu Cao (Arizona State Univ., United States)
Pagepp. 474 - 479
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5C-5 (Time: 15:10 - 15:35)
TitleInvestigation of Diffusion Rounding for Post-Lithography Analysis
AuthorPuneet Gupta (Univ. of California, Los Angles, United States), Andrew B. Kahng (Univ. of California, San Diego, United States), *Youngmin Kim (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States), Saumil Shah (Blaze-DFM, United States), Dennis Sylvester (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States)
Pagepp. 480 - 485
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Session 5D  Designers' Forum (Panel) Are System Level EDA Tools/Methodologies Coming?
Time: 13:30 - 15:35 Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Location: Room 311BC
Chair: Ren-Song Tsay (Nat'l Tsing Hua Univ.)

5D-1
Title(Panel Discussion) Are System Level EDA Tools/Methodologies Coming?
AuthorModerator: Ren-Song Tsay (Nat l Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan), Panelists: Raul Camposano (Xoomsys, Tajikistan), Toshihiro Hattori (Renesas, Japan), Austin Kim (Samsung Electronics, Republic of Korea), Howard Mao (Springsoft, Taiwan), Sri Parameswaran (Univ. of New South Wales, Australia)
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Session 6A  Trends in Timing
Time: 15:50 - 17:55 Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Location: Room 310A
Chairs: Youngsoo Shin (KAIST, Republic of Korea), Jung Yun Choi (Samsung Electronics, Republic of Korea)

6A-1 (Time: 15:50 - 16:15)
TitlePessimism Reduction in Coupling-Aware Static Timing Analysis Using Timing and Logic Filtering
Author*Debasish Das (Northwestern Univ., United States), Kip Killpack, Chandramouli Kashyap, Abhijit Jas (Intel, United States), Hai Zhou (Northwestern Univ., United States)
Pagepp. 486 - 491
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6A-2 (Time: 16:15 - 16:40)
TitleA Fast Incremental Clock Skew Scheduling Algorithm for Slack Optimization
Author*Kui Wang, Hao Fang, Hu Xu, Xu Cheng (Peking Univ., China)
Pagepp. 492 - 497
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6A-3 (Time: 16:40 - 17:05)
TitleClock Tree Synthesis with Data-Path Sensitivity Matching
Author*Matthew R. Guthaus (Univ. of California Santa Cruz, United States), Dennis Sylvester (Univ. of Michigan, United States), Richard B. Brown (Univ. of Utah, United States)
Pagepp. 498 - 503
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6A-4 (Time: 17:05 - 17:30)
TitleBuffered Clock Tree Synthesis for 3D ICs Under Thermal Variations
AuthorJacob Minz (Synopsys, United States), Xin Zhao, *Sung Kyu Lim (Georgia Inst. of Tech., United States)
Pagepp. 504 - 509
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6A-5 (Time: 17:30 - 17:43)
TitleA Delay Model for Interconnect Trees Based on ABCD Matrix
Author*Guofei Zhou, Li Su, Depeng Jin, Lieguang Zeng (Tsinghua Univ., China)
Pagepp. 510 - 513
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6A-6 (Time: 17:43 - 17:56)
TitleAnalytical Model for the Impact of Multiple Input Switching Noise on Timing
AuthorRajeshwary Tayade (Univ. of Texas, Austin, United States), *Sani Nassif (IBM, United States), Jacob Abraham (Univ. of Texas, Austin, United States)
Pagepp. 514 - 517
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Session 6B  Statistical Modeling and Yield Prediction
Time: 15:50 - 17:55 Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Location: Room 310BC
Chairs: Sheldon Tan (Univ. of California, Riverside, United States), Woojin Jin (Samsung Electronics, Republic of Korea)

6B-1 (Time: 15:50 - 16:15)
TitleDetermination of Optimal Polynomial Regression Function to Decompose On-Die Systematic and Random Variations
Author*Takashi Sato, Hiroyuki Ueyama, Noriaki Nakayama, Kazuya Masu (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)
Pagepp. 518 - 523
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6B-2 (Time: 16:15 - 16:40)
TitleWithin-Die Process Variations: How Accurately Can They Be Statistically Modeled?
AuthorBrendan Hargreaves, Henrik Hult, *Sherief Reda (Brown Univ., United States)
Pagepp. 524 - 530
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6B-3 (Time: 16:40 - 17:05)
TitleChebyshev Affine Arithmetic Based Parametric Yield Prediction Under Limited Descriptions of Uncertainty
AuthorJin Sun, Yue Huang (Univ. of Arizona, United States), Jun Li (Anova Solutions, United States), *Janet M. Wang (Univ. of Arizona, United States)
Pagepp. 531 - 536
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6B-4 (Time: 17:05 - 17:30)
TitleDistribution Arithmetic for Stochastical Analysis
Author*Markus Olbrich, Erich Barke (Univ. of Hannover, Germany)
Pagepp. 537 - 542
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6B-5 (Time: 17:30 - 17:55)
TitleHandling Partial Correlations in Yield Prediction
AuthorSridhar Varadan (Texas A&M Univ., United States), *Janet Wang (Univ. of Arizona, United States), Jiang Hu (Texas A&M Univ., United States)
Pagepp. 543 - 548
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Session 6D  Special Session - How to Design Cool Chips for Hot Products
Time: 15:50 - 17:55 Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Location: Room 311A+311BC
Chair: Massoud Pedram (Univ. of Southern California, United States)

6D-1
Title(Invited Paper) Reliability-Aware Design for Nanometer-Scale Devices
Author*David Atienza (EPFL, Swaziland), Giovanni De Micheli (LSI/EPFL, Swaziland), Luca Benini (DEIS/UNIBO, Italy), José L. Ayala, Pablo G. Del Valle (DACYA/UCM, Spain), Michael DeBole, Vijay Narayanan (CSE/PSU, United States)
Pagepp. 549 - 554
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6D-3
Title(Invited Paper) An Industrial Perspective of Power-aware Reliable SoC Design
Author*Soo-Kwan Eo, Sungjoo Yoo, Kyu-Myung Choi (Samsung Electronics, Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 555 - 557
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6D-4
Title(Panel Discussion) How to Design Cool Chips for Hot Products
AuthorModerator: Massoud Pedram (Univ. of Southern California, United States), Panelists: Giovanni De Micheli (EPFL, Swaziland), Jan Rabaey (Univ. of California, Berkeley, United States), Sookwan Eo (Samsung Electronics, Republic of Korea)
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Thursday, January 24, 2008

Session 3K  Keynote Session III
Time: 9:00 - 10:00 Thursday, January 24, 2008
Location: Room 409
Chair: Soonhoi Ha (Seoul Nat'l Univ., Republic of Korea)

3K-1 (Time: 9:00 - 10:00)
Title(Keynote Address) The Future of Semiconductor Industry - A Foundry's Perspective
Author*F. C. Tseng (TSMC, Taiwan)
Pagep. 558
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Session 7A  Reliable/Testable Design Techniques
Time: 10:15 - 12:20 Thursday, January 24, 2008
Location: Room 310A
Chairs: Huawei Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Sungho Kang (Yonsei Univ., Republic of Korea)

7A-1 (Time: 10:15 - 10:40)
TitleSoft Error Rate Reduction Using Redundancy Addition and Removal
Author*Kai-Chiang Wu, Diana Marculescu (Carnegie Mellon Univ., United States)
Pagepp. 559 - 564
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7A-2 (Time: 10:40 - 11:05)
TitleLocalized Random Access Scan: Towards Low Area and Routing Overhead
Author*Yu Hu, Xiang Fu, Xiaoxin Fan (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Hideo Fujiwara (NAIST, Japan)
Pagepp. 565 - 570
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7A-3 (Time: 11:05 - 11:30)
TitleA Design-for-Diagnosis Technique for Diagnosing Both Scan Chain Faults and Combinational Circuit Faults
AuthorFei Wang, *Yu Hu, Huawei Li, Xiaowei Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Pagepp. 571 - 576
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7A-4 (Time: 11:30 - 11:55)
TitleGECOM: Test Data Compression Combined with All Unknown Response Masking
Author*Youhua Shi, Nozomu Togawa, Masao Yanagisawa, Tatsuo Ohtsuki (Waseda Univ., Japan)
Pagepp. 577 - 582
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Session 7B  Communication and Interfaces
Time: 10:15 - 12:20 Thursday, January 24, 2008
Location: Room 310BC
Chairs: Maziar Goudarzi (Kyushu Univ., Japan), Hiroyuki Yagi (STARC, Japan)

7B-1 (Time: 10:15 - 10:40)
TitleMixed Integer Linear Programming-Based Optimal Topology Synthesis of Cascaded Crossbar Switches
Author*Minje Jun (Yonsei Univ., Republic of Korea), Sungjoo Yoo (Samsung Electronics, Republic of Korea), Eui-Young Chung (Yonsei Univ., Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 583 - 588
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7B-2 (Time: 10:40 - 11:05)
TitleAutomatic Interface Synthesis Based on the Classification of Interface Protocols of IPs
Author*ChangRyul Yun (Agency for Defense Development, Republic of Korea), DongSoo Kang (Chungnam Nat'l Univ., Republic of Korea), YoungHwan Bae, HanJin Cho (ETRI, Republic of Korea), KyoungSon Jhang (Chungnam Nat'l Univ., Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 589 - 594
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7B-3 (Time: 11:05 - 11:30)
TitleThe Shining Embedded System Design Methodology Based on Self Dynamic Reconfigurable Architectures
AuthorC. A. Curino, *L. Fossati, V. Rana, F. Redaelli, M. D. Santambrogio, D. Sciuto (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Pagepp. 595 - 600
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7B-4 (Time: 11:30 - 11:43)
TitleRobust On-Chip Bus Architecture Synthesis for MPSoC Under Random Tasks Arrival
Author*Sujan Pandey (NXP Semiconductors Research, Netherlands), Rolf Drechsler (Univ. of Bremen, Germany)
Pagepp. 601 - 606
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7B-5 (Time: 11:43 - 11:56)
TitleA Multi-Processor NoC Platform Applied on the 802.11i TKIP Cryptosystem
Author*Jung-Ho Lee, Sung-Rok Yoon, Kwang-Eui Pyun, Sin-Chong Park (ICU, Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 607 - 610
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Session 7C  Power: Delivery and Reduction
Time: 10:15 - 12:20 Thursday, January 24, 2008
Location: Room 311A
Chairs: Ki-seok Chung (Hanyang Univ., Republic of Korea), Junhyung Um (Samsung Electronics, Republic of Korea)

7C-1 (Time: 10:15 - 10:40)
TitleA Unified Methodology for Power Supply Noise Reduction in Modern Microarchitecture Design
AuthorMichael Healy, Fayez Mohamood, Hsien-Hsin S. Lee, *Sung Kyu Lim (Georgia Inst. of Tech., United States)
Pagepp. 611 - 616
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7C-2 (Time: 10:40 - 11:05)
TitleHeuristic Power/Ground Network and Floorplan Co-Design Method
Author*Xiaoyi Wang, Jin Shi, Yici Cai, Xianlong Hong (Tsinghua Univ., China)
Pagepp. 617 - 622
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7C-3 (Time: 11:05 - 11:30)
TitleVertical Via Design Techniques for Multi-Layered P/G Networks
Author*Shuai Li, Jin Shi, Yici Cai, Xianlong Hong (Tsinghua Univ., China)
Pagepp. 623 - 628
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7C-4 (Time: 11:30 - 11:55)
TitleStatistical Mixed Vt Allocation of Body-Biased Circuits for Reduced Leakage Variation
AuthorJinseob Jeong, *Seungwhun Paik, Youngsoo Shin (KAIST, Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 629 - 634
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7C-5 (Time: 11:55 - 12:20)
TitleExploring High-Speed Low-Power Hybrid Arithmetic Units at Scaled Supply and Adaptive Clock-Stretching
AuthorSwaroop Ghosh, *Kaushik Roy (Purdue Univ., United States)
Pagepp. 635 - 640
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Session 7D  Special Session (Panel) Concurrent SoC and SiP Designs
Time: 10:15 - 12:20 Thursday, January 24, 2008
Location: Room 311BC
Chair: Wei-Chung Lo (ITRI, Taiwan)

7D-1
Title(Panel Discussion) Concurrent SoC and SiP Designs
AuthorModerator: Wei-Chung Lo (ITRI, Taiwan), Panelists: C. P. Hung (ASE, Taiwan), Lung Chu (Cadence Design Systems, United States), Joungho Kim (KAIST, Republic of Korea), Epan Wu (VIA Technologies, Taiwan)
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Session 8A  Test Generation and Test Power
Time: 13:30 - 15:35 Thursday, January 24, 2008
Location: Room 310A
Chairs: Hideo Fujiwara (NAIST, Japan), Yu Hu (Chinese Academy of Science, China)

8A-1 (Time: 13:30 - 13:55)
TitleCircuit Lines for Guiding the Generation of Random Test Sequences for Synchronous Sequential Circuits
AuthorIrith Pomeranz (Purdue Univ., United States), *Sudhakar M. Reddy (Univ. of Iowa, United States)
Pagepp. 641 - 646
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8A-2 (Time: 13:55 - 14:20)
TitleA New Low Energy BIST Using A Statistical Code
Author*Sunghoon Chun, Taejin Kim, Sungho Kang (Yonsei Univ., Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 647 - 652
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8A-3 (Time: 14:20 - 14:33)
TitleOn Reducing Both Shift and Capture Power for Scan-Based Testing
AuthorJia Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), *Qiang Xu (The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Yu Hu, Xiaowei Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Pagepp. 653 - 658
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8A-4 (Time: 14:33 - 14:46)
TitleRobust Test Generation for Power Supply Noise Induced Path Delay Faults
Author*Xiang Fu, Huawei Li, Yu Hu, Xiaowei Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Pagepp. 659 - 662
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8A-5 (Time: 14:46 - 14:59)
TitleTest Vector Chains for Increased Targeted and Untargeted Fault Coverage
AuthorIrith Pomeranz (Purdue Univ., United States), *Sudhakar M. Reddy (Univ. of Iowa, United States)
Pagepp. 663 - 666
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8A-6 (Time: 14:59 - 15:12)
TitleParallel Fault Backtracing for Calculation of Fault Coverage
Author*Raimund Ubar, Sergei Devadze, Jaan Raik, Artur Jutman (Tallinn Univ. of Tech., Estonia)
Pagepp. 667 - 672
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Session 8B  Design Space Exploration
Time: 13:30 - 15:35 Thursday, January 24, 2008
Location: Room 310BC
Chairs: Sri Parameswaran (Univ. of New South Wales, United States), Rainer Dömer (Univ. of California, Irvine, United States)

8B-1 (Time: 13:30 - 13:55)
TitleReSP: A Non-Intrusive Transaction-Level Reflective MPSoC Simulation Platform for Design Space Exploration
AuthorGiovanni Beltrame (European Space Agency, Netherlands), Cristiana Bolchini, *Luca Fossati, Antonio Miele, Donatella Sciuto (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Pagepp. 673 - 678
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8B-2 (Time: 13:55 - 14:20)
TitleCollaborative Hardware/Software Partition of Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable System Using Evolutionary Ant Colony Optimization
Author*Dawei Wang, Sikun Li, Yong Dou (Nat'l Univ. of Defense Tech., China)
Pagepp. 679 - 684
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8B-3 (Time: 14:20 - 14:45)
TitleDesign Space Exploration for a Coarse Grain Accelerator
Author*Farhad Mehdipour, Hamid Noori (Kyushu Univ., Japan), Morteza Saheb Zamani (Amirkabir Univ. of Tech., Iran), Koji Inoue, Kazuaki Murakami (Kyushu Univ., Japan)
Pagepp. 685 - 690
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8B-4 (Time: 14:45 - 15:10)
TitleEfficient Symbolic Multi–Objective Design Space Exploration
Author*Martin Lukasiewycz, Michael Glaβ, Christian Haubelt, Jürgen Teich (Univ. of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
Pagepp. 691 - 696
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8B-5 (Time: 15:10 - 15:23)
TitleScalable Unified Dual-Radix Architecture for Montgomery Multiplication in GF(P) and GF(2n)
Author*Kazuyuki Tanimura, Ryuta Nara, Shunitsu Kohara, Kazunori Shimizu, Youhua Shi, Nozomu Togawa, Masao Yanagisawa, Tatsuo Ohtsuki (Waseda Univ., Japan)
Pagepp. 697 - 702
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Session 8C  Reliability and Power Management
Time: 13:30 - 15:35 Thursday, January 24, 2008
Location: Room 311A
Chairs: Koji Inoue (Kyushu Univ., Japan), Masaaki Kondo (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)

8C-1 (Time: 13:30 - 13:55)
TitleOptimal Allocation and Placement of Thermal Sensors for Reconfigurable Systems and Its Practical Extension
Author*ByungHyun Lee, Taewhan Kim (Seoul Nat'l Univ., Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 703 - 707
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8C-2 (Time: 13:55 - 14:20)
TitleExploring Power Management in Multi-Core Systems
AuthorReinaldo Bergamaschi (IBM, United States), Guoling Han (Univ. of California, Los Angeles, United States), Alper Buyuktosunoglu (IBM, United States), Hiren Patel (Virginia Tech, United States), Indira Nair, *Gero Dittmann, Geert Janssen, Nagu Dhanwada, Zhigang Hu, Pradip Bose, John Darringer (IBM, United States)
Pagepp. 708 - 713
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8C-3 (Time: 14:20 - 14:45)
TitleDependability, Power, and Performance Trade-Off on a Multicore Processor
Author*Toshinori Sato (Kyushu Univ., Japan), Toshimasa Funaki (Kyushu Inst. of Tech., Japan)
Pagepp. 714 - 719
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8C-4 (Time: 14:45 - 15:10)
TitleHigh Performance Current-Mode Differential Logic
AuthorLing Zhang (Univ. of California, San Diego, United States), Jianhua Liu (Altera, United States), Haikun Zhu (Qualcomm, United States), *Chung-Kuan Cheng (Univ. of California, San Diego, United States), Masanori Hashimoto (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Pagepp. 720 - 725
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8C-5 (Time: 15:10 - 15:35)
TitleNBTI Induced Performance Degradation in Logic and Memory Circuits: How Effectively Can We Approach a Reliability Solution?
AuthorKunhyuk Kang, Saakshi Gangwal, Sang Phill Park, *Kaushik Roy (Purdue Univ., United States)
Pagepp. 726 - 731
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Session 8D  Designers' Forum - Low Power Chips
Time: 13:30 - 15:35 Thursday, January 24, 2008
Location: Room 311BC
Chair: Kang Yi (Handong Global Univ., Republic of Korea)

8D-1
Title(Invited Paper) Reaching the Limits of Low Power Design
AuthorJ. S. Hobbs, *T. W. Williams (Synopsys, United States)
Pagepp. 732 - 735
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8D-2
Title(Invited Paper) Software-Cooperative Power-Efficient Heterogeneous Multi-Core for Media Processing
Author*Hiroaki Shikano, Masaki Ito, Kunio Uchiyama, Toshihiko Odaka (Hitachi, Japan), Akihiro Hayashi, Takeshi Masuura, Masayoshi Mase, Jun Shirako, Yasutaka Wada, Keiji Kimura, Hironori Kasahara (Waseda Univ., Japan)
Pagepp. 736 - 741
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8D-3
Title(Invited Paper) Experiences of Low Power Design Implementation and Verification
Author*Shi-Hao Chen, Jiing-Yuan Lin (Global Unichip, Taiwan)
Pagepp. 742 - 747
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8D-4
Title(Invited Paper) Low Power Architecture and Design Techniques for Mobile Handset LSI Medity™ M2
Author*Shuichi Kunie, Takefumi Hiraga, Tatsuya Tokue, Sunao Torii, Taku Ohsawa (NEC, Japan)
Pagepp. 748 - 753
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Session 9A  Analog/RF/Mixed Signal CAD
Time: 15:50 - 17:55 Thursday, January 24, 2008
Location: Room 310A
Chairs: Seonghwan Cho (KAIST, Republic of Korea), Zhiping Yu (Tsinghua Univ., China)

9A-1 (Time: 15:50 - 16:15)
TitleAn Efficient, Fully Nonlinear, Variability-Aware Non-Monte-Carlo Yield Estimation Procedure with Applications to SRAM Cells and Ring Oscillators
Author*Chenjie Gu, Jaijeet Roychowdhury (Univ. of Minnesota, United States)
Pagepp. 754 - 761
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9A-2 (Time: 16:15 - 16:40)
TitleAnalog Circuit Simulation Using Range Arithmetics
Author*Darius Grabowski, Markus Olbrich, Erich Barke (Univ. of Hannover, Germany)
Pagepp. 762 - 767
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9A-3 (Time: 16:40 - 16:53)
TitleLTCC Spiral Inductor Modeling, Synthesis, and Optimization
Author*Tuck-Boon Chan, Hsin-Chia Lu, Jun-Kuei Zeng, Charlie Chung-Ping Chen (Nat'l Taiwan Univ., Taiwan)
Pagepp. 768 - 771
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9A-4 (Time: 16:53 - 17:06)
TitleSymmetry Constraint based on Mismatch Analysis for Analog Layout in SOI Technology
Author*Jiayi Liu, Sheqin Dong, Xianlong Hong, Yibo Wang, Ou He (Tsinghua Univ., China), Satoshi Goto (Waseda Univ., Japan)
Pagepp. 772 - 775
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Session 9B  Architecture Exploration
Time: 15:50 - 17:55 Thursday, January 24, 2008
Location: Room 310BC
Chairs: Takao Onoye (Osaka Univ., Japan), Yun-Nan Chang (Nat'l Sun Yat-sen Univ., Taiwan)

9B-1 (Time: 15:50 - 16:15)
TitleSPKM : A Novel Graph Drawing Based Algorithm for Application Mapping onto Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Architectures
Author*Jonghee Yoon (Seoul Nat'l Univ., Republic of Korea), Aviral Shrivastava (Arizona State Univ., United States), Sanghyun Park, Minwook Ahn (Seoul Nat'l Univ., Republic of Korea), Reiley Jeyapaul (Arizona State Univ., United States), Yunheung Paek (Seoul Nat'l Univ., Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 776 - 782
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9B-2 (Time: 16:15 - 16:40)
TitleBlock Remap with Turnoff: A Variation-Tolerant Cache Design Technique
Author*Mohammed Abid Hussain (Int'l Inst. of Information Tech., Hyderabad, India), Madhu Mutyam (Indian Inst. of Tech. Madras, India)
Pagepp. 783 - 788
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9B-3 (Time: 16:40 - 17:05)
TitleORB: An On-Chip Optical Ring Bus Communication Architecture for Multi-Processor Systems-on-Chip
Author*Sudeep Pasricha, Nikil Dutt (Univ. of California, Irvine, United States)
Pagepp. 789 - 794
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9B-4 (Time: 17:05 - 17:30)
TitleWebpage-Based Benchmarks for Mobile Device Design
Author*Marc Somers, JoAnn M. Paul (Virginia Tech., United States)
Pagepp. 795 - 800
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Session 9D  Designers' Forum (Panel) Best Ways to Use Billions of Devices on a Chip
Time: 15:50 - 17:55 Thursday, January 24, 2008
Location: Room 311BC
Chair: Grant Martin (Tensilica, United States)

9D-1
Title(Panel Discussion) Best Ways to Use Billions of Devices on a Chip
AuthorModerator: Grant Martin (Tensilica, United States), Panelists: Deming Chen (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, United States), Nikil Dutt (Univ. of California, Irvine, United States), Joerg Henkel (Karlsruhe Univ., Germany), Kyungho Kim (Samsung Electronics, Republic of Korea), Kazutoshi Kobayashi (Kyoto Univ., Japan)
Pagepp. 801 - 802
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9D-2
Title(Invited Paper) VEBoC: Variation and Error-Aware Design for Billions of Devices on a Chip
AuthorShoaib Akram, Scott Cromar, Gregory Lucas, Alexandros Papakonstantinou, *Deming Chen (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, United States)
Pagepp. 803 - 808
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9D-3
Title(Invited Paper) Quo Vadis, BTSoC (Billion Transistor SoC)?
Author*Nikil Dutt (Univ. of California, Irvine, United States)
Pagep. 809
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9D-5
Title(Invited Paper) Best Ways to use Billions of Devices on a Wireless Mobile SoC
Author*KyungHo Kim (Samsung Electronics, Republic of Korea)
Pagep. 810
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9D-6
Title(Invited Paper) Best Ways to Use Billions of Devices on a Chip - Error Predictive, Defect Tolerant and Error Recovery Designs
Author*Kazutoshi Kobayashi, Hidetoshi Onodera (Kyoto Univ., Japan)
Pagepp. 811 - 812
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