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The 11th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference
Technical Program

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


Wednesday January 25, 2006

ABCD
Op (Small Auditorium, 5F)
Opening Session

8:30 - 9:00
1K (Small Auditorium, 5F)
Keynote Address I

9:00 - 10:00
Break
10:00 - 10:15
1A (Room 411+412)
Formal Methods for Coverage and Scalable Verification

10:15 - 12:20
1B (Room 413)
Interconnect for High-End SoC

10:15 - 12:20
1C (Room 414+415)
Timing Analysis and Optimization

10:15 - 12:20
1D (Room 416+417)
University Design Contest

10:15 - 12:20
Lunch Break / University Design Contest Discussion at ASP-DAC Site (Room 418)
12:20 - 13:30
2A (Room 411+412)
Software Techniques for Efficient SoC Design

13:30 - 15:35
2B (Room 413)
Application Examples with Leading Edge Design Methodology

13:30 - 15:35
2C (Room 414+415)
Placement

13:30 - 15:35
2D (Room 416+417)
Special Session: Electrothermal Design of Nanoscale Integrated Circuits

13:30 - 15:35
Coffee Break (Room 418)
15:35 - 16:00
3A (Room 411+412)
Logic Synthesis

16:00 - 18:05
3B (Room 413)
Future Technical Directions for Design Automation

16:00 - 18:05
3C (Room 414+415)
Routing and Interconnect Optimization

16:00 - 18:05
3D (Room 416+417)
Special Session: Flash Memory in Embedded Systems

16:00 - 18:05


Thursday January 26, 2006

ABCD
2K (Small Auditorium, 5F)
Keynote Address II

9:00 - 10:00
Break
10:00 - 10:15
4A (Room 411+412)
Resolving Timing Issues: Design and Test

10:15 - 12:20
4B (Room 413)
Leading Edge Design Methodology for SoCs and SiPs

10:15 - 12:20
4C (Room 414+415)
Advanced Circuit Simulation

10:15 - 12:20
4D (Room 416+417)
Special Session: Open Access Overview

10:15 - 12:20
Lunch Break / Ph.D. Forum (Room 418)
12:20 - 13:30
5A (Room 411+412)
Advances in Simulation Technologies

13:30 - 15:35
5B (Room 413)
Scheduling for Embedded Systems

13:30 - 15:35
5C (Room 414+415)
High Frequency Interconnect Effects in Nanometer Technology

13:30 - 15:35
5D (Small Auditorium, 5F)
Designers' Forum: Low Power Design

13:30 - 15:30
Coffee Break (Room 418)
15:35 - 16:00
6A (Room 411+412)
Power Optimization of Large-Scale Circuits

16:00 - 18:05
6B (Room 413)
Advanced Memory and Processor Architectures for MPSoC

16:00 - 18:05
6C (Room 414+415)
New Routing Techniques

16:00 - 18:05
6D (Small Auditorium, 5F)
Designers' Forum Panel:

16:30 - 18:00
Banquet (Room 501+502)
18:30 - 20:30


Friday January 27, 2006

ABCD
3K (Small Auditorium, 5F)
Keynote Address III

9:00 - 10:00
Break
10:00 - 10:15
7A (Room 411+412)
Minimization of Test Cost and Power

10:15 - 12:20
7B (Room 413)
Substrate Coupling and Analog Synthesis

10:15 - 12:20
7C (Room 414+415)
Statistical and Yield Analysis

10:15 - 12:20
7D (Room 416+417)
Special Session: H.264/AVC Design Challenges and Solutions

10:15 - 12:20
Lunch Break
12:20 - 13:30
8A (Room 411+412)
Floorplanning

13:30 - 15:35
8B (Room 413)
Memory Optimization for Embedded Systems

13:30 - 15:35
8C (Room 414+415)
Inductive Issues in Power Grids and Packages

13:30 - 15:35
8D (Small Auditorium, 5F)
Designers' Forum: "Cell" Processor

13:30 - 15:30
Coffee Break (Room 418)
15:35 - 16:00
9A (Room 411+412)
High-Level Synthesis

16:00 - 18:05
9B (Room 413)
Modeling, Compilation and Optimization of Embedded Architectures

16:00 - 18:05
9C (Room 414+415)
Statistical Design

16:00 - 18:05
9D (Small Auditorium, 5F)
Designers' Forum Panel:

16:30 - 18:00



List of Papers

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

Wednesday January 25, 2006

Session Op Opening Session (8:30 - 9:00)
Location: Small Auditorium, 5F


Session 1K Keynote Address I (9:00 - 10:00)
Location: Small Auditorium, 5F
Chair(s): Fumiyasu Hirose (Cadence, Japan)

1K-1 (Time: 9:00 - 10:00)
TitleAutomotive Electronics: Steady Growth for Years to Come!
AuthorAlberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli (The Edgar L. and Harold H. Buttner Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Univ. of California, Berkeley, and Chief Technology Advisor, Member of the Board and Co-founder, Cadence Design Systems, United States)
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Session 1A Formal Methods for Coverage and Scalable Verification (10:15 - 12:20)
Location: Room 411+412
Chair(s): Kiyoharu Hamaguchi (Osaka Univ., Japan), Valeria Bertacco (Univ. of Michigan, United States)

1A-1 (Time: 10:15 - 10:40)
TitleTransition-Based Coverage Estimation for Symbolic Model Checking
Author*Xingwen Xu, Shinji Kimura (Waseda Univ., Japan), Kazunari Horikawa, Takehiko Tsuchiya (Toshiba, Japan)
Pagepp. 1 - 6
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1A-2 (Time: 10:40 - 11:05)
TitleWord Level Functional Coverage Computation
Author*Bijan Alizadeh (Microelectronic Research and Development Center of Iran, Iran)
Pagepp. 7 - 12
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1A-3 (Time: 11:05 - 11:30)
TitleDiscovering the Input Assumptions in Specification Refinement Coverage
AuthorPrasenjit Basu, Sayantan Das, *Pallab Dasgupta, Partha P Chakrabarti (Indian Inst. of Tech. Kharagpur, India)
Pagepp. 13 - 18
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1A-4 (Time: 11:30 - 11:55)
TitleRefinement Strategies for Verification Methods Based on Datapath Abstraction
Author*Zaher Semon Andraus, Mark Hammond Liffiton, Karem Ahmad Sakallah (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States)
Pagepp. 19 - 24
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1A-5 (Time: 11:55 - 12:20)
TitleGeneration of Shorter Sequences for High Resolution Error Diagnosis Using Sequential SAT
AuthorSung-Jui Pan, *Kwang-Ting Cheng (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, United States), John Moondanos, Ziyad Hanna (Intel Co., United States)
Pagepp. 25 - 29
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Session 1B Interconnect for High-End SoC (10:15 - 12:20)
Location: Room 413
Chair(s): Yoshinori Takeuchi (Osaka Univ., Japan), Juinn-Dar Huang (National Chiao-Tung Univ., Taiwan)

1B-1 (Time: 10:15 - 10:40)
TitleConstraint-Driven Bus Matrix Synthesis for MPSoC
Author*Sudeep Pasricha, Nikil Dutt (Univ. of California, Irvine, United States), Mohamed Ben-Romdhane (Conexant, United States)
Pagepp. 30 - 35
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1B-2 (Time: 10:40 - 11:05)
TitleImproving Routing Efficiency for Network-on-Chip through Contention-Aware Input Selection
Author*Dong Wu, Bashir M. Al-Hashimi, Marcus T. Schmitz (Univ. of Southampton, Great Britain)
Pagepp. 36 - 41
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1B-3 (Time: 11:05 - 11:30)
TitlePhysical Design Implementation of Segmented Buses to Reduce Communication Energy
Author*Jin Guo, Antonis Papanikolaou, Pol Marchal, Francky Catthoor (IMEC, Belgium)
Pagepp. 42 - 47
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1B-4 (Time: 11:30 - 11:55)
TitleCo-Synthesis of a Configurable SoC Platform based on a Network on Chip Architecture
Author*Mário Pereira Véstias, Horácio Neto (INESC-ID, Portugal)
Pagepp. 48 - 53
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1B-5 (Time: 11:55 - 12:20)
TitleCustomized SIMD Unit Synthesis for System on Programmable Chip - A Foundation for HW/SW Partitioning with Vectorization
AuthorMuhammad Omer Cheema, *Omar Hammami (ENSTA Paris, France)
Pagepp. 54 - 60
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Session 1C Timing Analysis and Optimization (10:15 - 12:20)
Location: Room 414+415
Chair(s): Ryuichi Yamaguchi (Matsushita, Japan), Atsushi Kurokawa (STARC, Japan)

1C-1 (Time: 10:15 - 10:40)
TitleRobust Analytical Gate Delay Modeling for Low Voltage Circuits
AuthorAnand Ramalingam (Univ. of Texas, Austin, United States), Sreekumar V. Kodakara (Univ. of Minnesota, United States), Anirudh Devgan (Magma, United States), *David Z. Pan (Univ. of Texas, Austin, United States)
Pagepp. 61 - 66
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1C-2 (Time: 10:40 - 11:05)
TitleCGTA: Current Gain-based Timing Analysis for Logic Cells
AuthorShahin Nazarian, *Massoud Pedram (Univ. of Southern California, United States), Tao Lin, Emre Tuncer (Magma, United States)
Pagepp. 67 - 72
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1C-3 (Time: 11:05 - 11:30)
TitleEfficient Static Timing Analysis Using a Unified Framework for False Paths and Multi-Cycle Paths
AuthorShuo Zhou, Bo Yao, Hongyu Chen, Yi Zhu, *Chung-Kuan Cheng (Univ. of California, San Diego, United States), Mike Hutton (Altera Corp., United States)
Pagepp. 73 - 78
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1C-4 (Time: 11:30 - 11:55)
TitleCrosstalk Analysis using Reconvergence Correlation
Author*Sachin Shrivastava, Rajendra Pratap, Harindranath Parameswaran, Manuj Verma (Cadence Design Systems, India)
Pagepp. 79 - 83
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1C-5 (Time: 11:55 - 12:20)
TitleProcess-Induced Skew Reduction in Nominal Zero-Skew Clock Trees
Author*Matthew R. Guthaus, Dennis Sylvester (Univ. of Michigan, United States), Richard B. Brown (Univ. of Utah, United States)
Pagepp. 84 - 89
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Session 1D University Design Contest (10:15 - 12:20)
Location: Room 416+417
Chair(s): Kazutoshi Kobayashi (Kyoto Univ., Japan), Takahiko Arakawa (Renesas, Japan)

1D-1 (Time: 10:15 - 10:20)
TitleA Low Dynamic Power and Low Leakage Power 90-nm CMOS Square-Root Circuit
Author*Tadayoshi Enomoto, Nobuaki Kobayashi (Chuo Univ., Japan)
Pagepp. 90 - 91
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1D-2 (Time: 10:20 - 10:25)
TitleA High-Throughput Low-Power Fully Parallel 1024-bit 1/2-Rate Low Density Parity Check Code Decoder in 3-Dimensional Integrated Circuits
AuthorLili Zhou, Cherry Wakayama, Nuttorn Jangkrajarng, Bo Hu, *Richard Shi (Univ. of Washington, United States)
Pagepp. 92 - 93
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1D-3 (Time: 10:25 - 10:30)
TitleA 16-Bit, Low-Power Microsystem with Monolithic MEMS-LC Clocking
Author*Robert M. Senger, Eric D. Marsman, Michael S. McCorquodale (Univ. of Michigan, United States), Richard B. Brown (Univ. of Utah, United States)
Pagepp. 94 - 95
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1D-4 (Time: 10:30 - 10:35)
TitleUltra-Low Voltage Power Management Circuit and Computation Methodology for Energy Harvesting Applications
AuthorChi-Ying Tsui, *Hui Shao, Wing-Hung Ki, Feng Su (Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Tech., Hong Kong)
Pagepp. 96 - 97
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1D-5 (Time: 10:35 - 10:40)
TitleA 0.5-V Sigma-Delta Modulator Using Analog T-Switch Scheme for the Subthreshold Leakage Suppression
Author*Koichi Ishida, Atit Tamtrakarn, Takayasu Sakurai (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Pagepp. 98 - 99
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1D-6 (Time: 10:40 - 10:45)
TitleAn Implementation of a CMOS Down-Conversion Mixer for GSM1900 Receiver
Author*Fangqing Chu, Wei Li, Junyan Ren (Fudan Univ., China)
Pagepp. 100 - 101
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1D-7 (Time: 10:45 - 10:50)
TitleIntegrated Direct Output Current Control Switching Converter using Symmetrically-Matched Self-Biased Current Sensors
Author*Yat-Hei Lam (Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Tech., Hong Kong), Suet-Chui Koon (National Semiconductor Co., Hong Kong), Wing-Hung Ki, Chi-Ying Tsui (Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Tech., Hong Kong)
Pagepp. 102 - 103
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1D-8 (Time: 10:50 - 10:55)
TitleAdaptively-Biased Capacitor-Less CMOS Low Dropout Regulator with Direct Current Feedback
Author*Yat-Hei Lam, Wing-Hung Ki, Chi-Ying Tsui (Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Tech., Hong Kong)
Pagepp. 104 - 105
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1D-9 (Time: 10:55 - 11:00)
TitleA Built-in Power Supply Noise Probe for Digital LSIs
Author*Mitsuya Fukazawa, Koichiro Noguchi, Makoto Nagata, Kazuo Taki (Kobe Univ., Japan)
Pagepp. 106 - 107
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1D-10 (Time: 11:00 - 11:05)
TitleA 476-gate-count Dynamic Optically Reconfigurable Gate Array VLSI chip in a standard 0.35um CMOS Technology
Author*Minoru Watanabe, Fuminori Kobayashi (Kyushu Inst. of Tech., Japan)
Pagepp. 108 - 109
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1D-11 (Time: 11:05 - 11:10)
TitleMeasurement Results of Within-Die Variations on a 90nm LUT Array for Speed and Yield Enhancement of Reconfigurable Devices
Author*Kazuya Katsuki, Manabu Kotani, Kazutoshi Kobayashi, Hidetoshi Onodera (Kyoto Univ., Japan)
Pagepp. 110 - 111
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1D-12 (Time: 11:10 - 11:15)
TitleHigh-Throughput Decoder for Low-Density Parity-Check Code
Author*Tatsuyuki Ishikawa, Kazunori Shimizu, Takeshi Ikenaga, Satoshi Goto (Waseda Univ., Japan)
Pagepp. 112 - 113
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1D-13 (Time: 11:15 - 11:20)
TitleHardware Implementation of Super Minimum All Digital FM Demodulator
Author*Nursani Rahmatullah, Arif Nugroho (Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia)
Pagepp. 114 - 115
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1D-14 (Time: 11:20 - 11:25)
TitleDesigning a Custom Architecture for DCT Using NISC Technology
AuthorBita Gorjiara, Mehrdad Reshadi, *Daniel Gajski (Univ. of California, Irvine, United States)
Pagepp. 116 - 117
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1D-15 (Time: 11:25 - 11:30)
TitleA 52mW 1200MIPS Compact DSP for Multi-Core Media SoC
Author*Shih-Hao Ou, Tay-Jyi Lin, Chao-Wei Huang, Yu-Ting Kuo, Chie-Min Chao, Chih-Wei Liu (National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan), Chein-Wei Jen (STC, ITRI, Taiwan)
Pagepp. 118 - 119
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1D-16 (Time: 11:30 - 11:35)
TitleImplementation of H.264/AVC Decoder for Mobile Video Applications
Author*Suh Ho Lee, Ji Hwan Park, Seon Wook Kim, Sung Jea Ko, Suki Kim (Korea Univ., Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 120 - 121
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1D-17 (Time: 11:35 - 11:40)
TitleA High-Performance Platform-Based SoC for Information Security
AuthorMin Wu, Xiaoyang Zeng, *Jun Han, Yongyi Wu, Yibo Fan (Fudan Univ., China)
Pagepp. 122 - 123
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1D-18 (Time: 11:40 - 11:45)
TitleConfigurable Multi-Processor Architecture and its Processor Element Design
Author*Tsutomu Nishimura, Takuji Miki, Hiroaki Sugiura, Yuki Matsumoto, Masatsugu Kobayashi, Toshiyuki Kato, Tsutomu Eda, Hironori Yamauchi (Ritsumeikan Univ., Japan)
Pagepp. 124 - 125
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1D-19 (Time: 11:45 - 11:50)
TitleDesign and Implementation of Transducer for ARM-TMS Communication
AuthorHansu Cho, Samar Abdi, *Daniel Gajski (Univ. of California, Irvine, United States)
Pagepp. 126 - 127
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Session 2A Software Techniques for Efficient SoC Design (13:30 - 15:35)
Location: Room 411+412
Chair(s): Qiang Zhu (Fujitsu Lab., Japan), Ahmed Jerraya (TIMA Laboratory, France)

2A-1 (Time: 13:30 - 13:55)
TitleEnergy Savings through Embedded Processing on Disk System
AuthorSeung Woo Son, Guangyu Chen, Mahmut Kandemir, *Fehui Li (Pennsylvania State Univ., United States)
Pagepp. 128 - 133
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2A-2 (Time: 13:55 - 14:20)
TitleEnergy-Aware Computation Duplication for Improving Reliability in Embedded Chip Multiprocessors
AuthorGuilin Chen, Mahmut Kandemir, *Feihui Li (Pennsylvania State Univ., United States)
Pagepp. 134 - 139
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2A-3 (Time: 14:20 - 14:45)
TitleObject Duplication for Improving Reliability
AuthorGuilin Chen, Guangyu Chen, *Mahmut Kandemir, Narayanan Vijaykrishnan, Mary Jane Irwin (Pennsylvania State Univ., United States)
Pagepp. 140 - 145
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2A-4 (Time: 14:45 - 15:10)
TitleMapping and Configuration Methods for Multi-Use-Case Networks on Chips
Author*Srinivasan Murali (Stanford Univ., United States), Martijn Coenen, Andrei Radulescu, Kees Goossens (Philips, Netherlands), Giovanni De Micheli (EPFL, Switzerland)
Pagepp. 146 - 151
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2A-5 (Time: 15:10 - 15:35)
TitleConversion of Reference C Code to Dataflow Model: H.264 Encoder Case Study
Author*Hyeyoung Hwang, Taewook Oh, Hyunuk Jung, Soonhoi Ha (Seoul National Univ., Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 152 - 157
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Session 2B Application Examples with Leading Edge Design Methodology (13:30 - 15:35)
Location: Room 413
Chair(s): In-Cheol Park (KAIST, Republic of Korea), Hideharu Amano (Keio Univ., Japan)

2B-1 (Time: 13:30 - 13:55)
TitleSAVS: A Self-Adaptive Variable Supply-Voltage Technique for Process -Tolerant and Power-Efficient Multi-issue Superscalar Processor Design
AuthorHai Li (Qualcomm Inc., United States), Yiran Chen (Synopsys Inc., United States), *Kaushik Roy, Cheng-Kok Koh (Purdue Univ., United States)
Pagepp. 158 - 163
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2B-2 (Time: 13:55 - 14:20)
TitleThe Design and Implementation of a Low-Latency On-Chip Network
Author*Robert Mullins, Andrew West, Simon Moore (Univ. of Cambridge, Great Britain)
Pagepp. 164 - 169
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2B-3 (Time: 14:20 - 14:45)
TitleA Near Optimal Deblocking Filter for H.264 Advanced Video Coding
AuthorShen-Yu Shih, Cheng-Ru Chang, *Youn-Long Lin (National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan)
Pagepp. 170 - 175
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2B-4 (Time: 14:45 - 15:10)
TitleImage Segmentation and Pattern Matching Based FPGA/ASIC Implementation Architecture of Real-Time Object Tracking
Author*Kousuke Yamaoka, Takashi Morimoto, Hidekazu Adachi, Tetsushi Koide, Hans Juergen Mattausch (Hiroshima Univ., Japan)
Pagepp. 176 - 181
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2B-5 (Time: 15:10 - 15:35)
TitlePrefetching-Aware Cache Line Turnoff for Saving Leakage Energy
Author*Ismail Kadayif (Canakkale Onsekiz Mart Univ., Turkey), Mahmut Kandemir, Feihui Li (Pennsylvania State Univ., United States)
Pagepp. 182 - 187
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Session 2C Placement (13:30 - 15:35)
Location: Room 414+415
Chair(s): Evangeline F.Y. Young (Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Shin'ichi Wakabayashi (Hiroshima City Univ., Japan)

2C-1 (Time: 13:30 - 13:55)
TitleA Robust Detailed Placement for Mixed-Size IC Designs
AuthorJason Cong, *Min Xie (Univ. of California, Los Angeles, United States)
Pagepp. 188 - 194
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2C-2 (Time: 13:55 - 14:20)
TitleFastPlace 2.0: An Efficient Analytical Placer for Mixed-Mode Designs
Author*Natarajan Viswanathan, Min Pan, Chris Chu (Iowa State Univ., United States)
Pagepp. 195 - 200
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2C-3 (Time: 14:20 - 14:45)
TitleTiming-Driven Placement Based on Monotone Cell Ordering Constraints
AuthorChanseok Hwang, *Massoud Pedram (Univ. of Southern California, United States)
Pagepp. 201 - 206
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2C-4 (Time: 14:45 - 15:10)
TitleConstraint Driven I/O Planning and Placement for Chip-package Co-design
Author*Jinjun Xiong (Univ. of California, Los Angeles, United States), Yiu-Chung Wong, Egino Sarto (Rio Design Automation, United States), Lei He (Univ. of California, Los Angeles, United States)
Pagepp. 207 - 212
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2C-5 (Time: 15:10 - 15:35)
TitleSimultaneous Block and I/O Buffer Floorplanning for Flip-Chip Design
Author*Chih-Yang Peng, Wen-Chang Chao, Yao-Wen Chang (National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan), J.-H. Wang (Faraday Technology Corp., Taiwan)
Pagepp. 213 - 218
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Session 2D Special Session: Electrothermal Design of Nanoscale Integrated Circuits (13:30 - 15:35)
Location: Room 416+417
Chair(s): Dennis Sylvester (Univ. of Michigan, United States), Mongkol Ekpanyapong (Georgia Inst. of Tech., United States)

2D-1 (Time: 13:30 - 14:00)
TitleElectrothermal Analysis and Optimization Techniques for Nanoscale Integrated Circuits
Author*Yong Zhan, Brent Goplen, Sachin S. Sapatnekar (Univ. of Minnesota, United States)
Pagepp. 219 - 222
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2D-2 (Time: 14:00 - 14:30)
TitleElectrothermal Engineering in the Nanometer Era: From Devices and Interconnects to Circuits and Systems
Author*Kaustav Banerjee, Sheng-Chih Lin, Navin Srivastava (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, United States)
Pagepp. 223 - 230
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2D-3 (Time: 14:30 - 15:00)
TitleArea Optimization for Leakage Reduction and Thermal Stability in Nanometer Scale Technologies
Author*Ja Chun Ku, Yehea Ismail (Northwestern Univ., United States)
Pagepp. 231 - 236
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2D-4 (Time: 15:00 - 15:30)
TitleCompact Thermal Models for Estimation of Temperature-dependent Power/Performance in FinFET Technology
AuthorAditya Bansal, Mesut Meterelliyoz (Purdue Univ., United States), Siddharth Singh (Osmania Univerisity, India), Jung Hwan Choi, Jayathi Murthy, *Kaushik Roy (Purdue Univ., United States)
Pagepp. 237 - 242
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Session 3A Logic Synthesis (16:00 - 18:05)
Location: Room 411+412
Chair(s): Shinji Kimura (Waseda Univ., Japan), Shih-Chieh Chang (National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan)

3A-1 (Time: 16:00 - 16:25)
TitleAn Anytime Symmetry Detection Algorithm for ROBDDs
Author*Neil Kettle, Andy King (Univ. of Kent, Great Britain)
Pagepp. 243 - 248
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3A-2 (Time: 16:25 - 16:50)
TitleHigh Level Equivalence Symmetric Input Identification
Author*Ming-Hong Su, Chun-Yao Wang (National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan)
Pagepp. 249 - 253
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3A-3 (Time: 16:50 - 17:15)
TitleFast Multi-Domain Clock Skew Scheduling for Peak Current Reduction
Author*Shih-Hsu Huang, Chia-Ming Chang, Yow-Tyng Nieh (Chung Yuan Christian Univ., Taiwan)
Pagepp. 254 - 259
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3A-4 (Time: 17:15 - 17:40)
TitleLow Area Pipelined Circuits by Multi-clock Cycle Paths and Clock Scheduling
Author*Bakhtiar Affendi Rosdi, Atsushi Takahashi (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)
Pagepp. 260 - 265
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3A-5 (Time: 17:40 - 18:05)
TitleA Transduction-based Framework to Synthesize RSFQ Circuits
Author*Shigeru Yamashita (NAIST, Japan), Katsunori Tanaka (NEC, Japan), Hideyuki Takada (Kyoto Univ., Japan), Koji Obata, Kazuyoshi Takagi (Nagoya Univ., Japan)
Pagepp. 266 - 272
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Session 3B Future Technical Directions for Design Automation (16:00 - 18:05)
Location: Room 413
Chair(s): Makoto Nagata (Kobe Univ., Japan), Ryuichi Fujimoto (Toshiba, Japan)

3B-1 (Time: 16:00 - 16:25)
TitleFast Simulation of Large Networks of Nanotechnological and Biochemical Oscillators for Investigating Self-Organization Phenomena
AuthorXiaolue Lai, *Jaijeet Roychowdhury (Univ. of Minnesota, United States)
Pagepp. 273 - 278
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3B-2 (Time: 16:25 - 16:50)
TitleNewton: A Library-Based Analytical Synthesis Tool for RF-MEMS Resonators
Author*Michael S. McCorquodale (Mobius Microsystems, Inc., United States), James L. McCann (Carnegie Mellon Univ., United States), Richard B. Brown (Univ. of Utah, United States)
Pagepp. 279 - 284
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3B-3 (Time: 16:50 - 17:15)
TitleJitter Decomposition in Ring Oscillators
Author*Qingqi Dou, Jacob Abraham (Univ. of Texas, Austin, United States)
Pagepp. 285 - 290
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3B-4 (Time: 17:15 - 17:40)
TitleA Fast Methodology for First-Time-Correct Design of PLLs Using Nonlinear Phase-Domain VCO Macromodels
Author*Prashant Goyal (Indian Inst. of Tech., Kanpur, India), Xiaolue Lai, Jaijeet Roychowdhury (Univ. of Minnesota, United States)
Pagepp. 291 - 296
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3B-5 (Time: 17:40 - 18:05)
TitleDouble Edge Triggered Feedback Flip-Flop in Sub 100nm Technology
Author*Seid Hadi Rasouli, Amir Amirabadi, Azam Seyedi, Ali Afzali-Kusha (Univ. of Tehran, Iran)
Pagepp. 297 - 302
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Session 3C Routing and Interconnect Optimization (16:00 - 18:05)
Location: Room 414+415
Chair(s): Youichi Shiraishi (Gunma Univ., Japan), Lei He (Univ. of California, Los Angels, United States)

3C-1 (Time: 16:00 - 16:25)
TitlePost-Routing Redundant Via Insertion for Yield/Reliability Improvement
Author*Kuang-Yao Lee, Ting-Chi Wang (National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan)
Pagepp. 303 - 308
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3C-2 (Time: 16:25 - 16:50)
TitleTemperature-Aware Routing in 3D ICs
AuthorTianpei Zhang, *Yong Zhan, Sachin S. Sapatnekar (Univ. of Minnesota, United States)
Pagepp. 309 - 314
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3C-3 (Time: 16:50 - 17:15)
TitleClosed Form Solution for Optimal Buffer Sizing Using The Weierstrass Elliptic Function
AuthorSebastian Vogel (Darmstadt Univ. of Tech., Germany), *Martin D.F. Wong (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, United States)
Pagepp. 315 - 319
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3C-4 (Time: 17:15 - 17:40)
TitleAn O(mn) Time Algorithm for Optimal Buffer Insertion of Nets with m Sinks
Author*Zhuo Robert Li, Weiping Shi (Texas A&M Univ., United States)
Pagepp. 320 - 325
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3C-5 (Time: 17:40 - 18:05)
TitleSpec-based Flip-Flop and Latch Repeater Planning
Author*Man Chung Hon (Intel Co., United States)
Pagepp. 326 - 331
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Session 3D Special Session: Flash Memory in Embedded Systems (16:00 - 18:05)
Location: Room 416+417
Chair(s): Tohru Ishihara (Kyushu Univ., Japan), Hiroyuki Tomiyama (Nagoya Univ., Japan)

3D-1 (Time: 16:00 - 17:00)
TitleCurrent Trends in Flash Memory Technology
Author*Sang Lyul Min, Eyee Hyun Nam (Seoul National Univ., Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 332 - 333
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3D-2 (Time: 17:00 - 18:00)
TitleConfigurability of Performance and Overheads in Flash Management
Author*Tei-Wei Kuo, Jen-Wei Hsieh (National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan), Li-Pin Chang (National Chiao-Tung Univ., Taiwan), Yuan-Hao Chang (National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan)
Pagepp. 334 - 341
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Thursday January 26, 2006

Session 2K Keynote Address II (9:00 - 10:00)
Location: Small Auditorium, 5F
Chair(s): Fumiyasu Hirose (Cadence, Japan)

2K-1 (Time: 9:00 - 10:00)
TitleChallenging Device Innovation
AuthorSatoru Ito (President & CEO, RENESAS Technology Corp., Japan)
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Session 4A Resolving Timing Issues: Design and Test (10:15 - 12:20)
Location: Room 411+412
Chair(s): Masaki Hashizume (Tokushima Univ., Japan), Kazumi Hatayama (Renesas, Japan)

4A-1 (Time: 10:15 - 10:40)
TitleDelay Defect Screening for a 2.16GHz SPARC64 Microprocessor
AuthorNoriyuki Ito, *Akira Kanuma, Daisuke Maruyama, Hitoshi Yamanaka, Tsuyoshi Mochizuki, Osamu Sugawara, Chihiro Endoh, Masahiro Yanagida, Takeshi Kono, Yutaka Isoda, Kazunobu Adachi, Takahisa Hiraide, Shigeru Nagasawa, Yaroku Sugiyama, Eizo Ninoi (Fujitsu, Japan)
Pagepp. 342 - 347
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4A-2 (Time: 10:40 - 11:05)
TitleA Dynamic Test Compaction Procedure for High-quality Path Delay Testing
AuthorMasayasu Fukunaga (Fujitsu, Japan), Seiji Kajihara, *Xiaoqing Wen (Kyushu Inst. of Tech., Japan), Toshiyuki Maeda, Shuji Hamada, Yasuo Sato (STARC, Japan)
Pagepp. 348 - 353
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4A-3 (Time: 11:05 - 11:30)
TitleDelay Variation Tolerance for Domino Circuits
AuthorKai-Chiang Wu, *Cheng-Tao Hsieh, Shih-Chieh Chang (National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan)
Pagepp. 354 - 359
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4A-4 (Time: 11:30 - 11:55)
TitleEfficient Identification of Multi-Cycle False Path
AuthorKai Yang, *Tim Cheng (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, United States)
Pagepp. 360 - 365
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4A-5 (Time: 11:55 - 12:20)
TitleIEEE Standard 1500 Compatible Interconnect Diagnosis for Delay and Crosstalk Faults
Author*Katherine Shu-Min Li (National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan), Yao-Wen Chang (National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan), Chauchin Su, Chung-Len Lee (National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan), Jwu E Chen (National Central Univ., Taiwan)
Pagepp. 366 - 371
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Session 4B Leading Edge Design Methodology for SoCs and SiPs (10:15 - 12:20)
Location: Room 413
Chair(s): Satoshi Matsushita (NEC, Japan), Makoto Ikeda (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)

4B-1 (Time: 10:15 - 10:40)
TitleHigh-Level Architecture Exploration for MPEG4 Encoder with Custom Parameters
Author*Marius Bonaciu, Aimen Bouchhima, Wassim Youssef, Xi Chen (TIMA Laboratory, France), Wander Cesario (MND, France), Ahmed Jerraya (TIMA Laboratory, France)
Pagepp. 372 - 377
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4B-2 (Time: 10:40 - 11:05)
TitleProgrammable Numerical Function Generators Based on Quadratic Approximation: Architecture and Synthesis Method
Author*Shinobu Nagayama (Hiroshima City Univ., Japan), Tsutomu Sasao (Kyushu Inst. of Tech., Japan), Jon Butler (Naval Postgraduate School, United States)
Pagepp. 378 - 383
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4B-3 (Time: 11:05 - 11:30)
TitleAn Automated Design Flow for 3D Microarchitecture Evaluation
Author*Jason Cong, Ashok Jagannathan, Yuchun Ma, Glenn Reinman, Jie Wei, Yan Zhang (Univ. of California, Los Angeles, United States)
Pagepp. 384 - 389
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4B-4 (Time: 11:30 - 11:55)
TitleOptimal Topology Exploration for Application-Specific 3D Architectures
AuthorOzcan Ozturk, Feng Wang, *Mahmut Kandemir, Yuan Xie (Pennsylvania State Univ., United States)
Pagepp. 390 - 395
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4B-5 (Time: 11:55 - 12:20)
TitleTask Placement Heuristic Based on 3D-Adjacency and Look-Ahead in Reconfigurable Systems
AuthorJesus Tabero (Instituto Nacional de Tecnica Aeroespacial, Spain), Julio Septien, Hortensia Mecha, *Daniel Mozos (Univ. Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
Pagepp. 396 - 401
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Session 4C Advanced Circuit Simulation (10:15 - 12:20)
Location: Room 414+415
Chair(s): Hideki Asai (Shizuoka Univ., Japan), C.J. Richard Shi (Washington Univ., United States)

4C-1 (Time: 10:15 - 10:40)
TitleA Quasi-Newton Preconditioned Newton-Krylov Method for Robust and Efficient Time-Domain Simulation of Integrated Circuits with Strong Parasitic Couplings
AuthorZhao Li (Cadence Design Systems, United States), *Richard Shi (Univ. of Washington, United States)
Pagepp. 402 - 407
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4C-2 (Time: 10:40 - 11:05)
TitleAn Efficient and Globally Convergent Homotopy Method for Finding DC Operating Points of Nonlinear Circuits
Author*Kiyotaka Yamamura, Wataru Kuroki (Chuo Univ., Japan)
Pagepp. 408 - 415
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4C-3 (Time: 11:05 - 11:30)
TitleOptimization of Circuit Trajectories: An Auxiliary Network Approach
AuthorBaohua Wang, *Pinaki Mazumder (Univ. of Michigan, United States)
Pagepp. 416 - 421
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4C-4 (Time: 11:30 - 11:55)
TitleSASIMI: Sparsity-Aware Simulation of Interconnect-Dominated Circuits with Non-Linear Devices
Author*Jitesh Jain, Stephen F Cauley, Cheng-Kok Koh, Venkataramanan Balakrishnan (Purdue Univ., United States)
Pagepp. 422 - 427
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4C-5 (Time: 11:55 - 12:20)
TitleAn Unconditional Stable General Operator Splitting Method for Transistor Level Transient Analysis
AuthorZhengyong Zhu, Rui Shi, *Chung-Kuan Cheng (Univ. of California, San Diego, United States), Ernest S. Kuh (Univ. of California, Berkeley, United States)
Pagepp. 428 - 433
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Session 4D Special Session: Open Access Overview (10:15 - 12:20)
Location: Room 416+417
Chair(s): John Darringer (IBM, United States)

4D-1 (Time: 10:15 - 10:45)
TitleAn Introduction to OpenAccess -An Open Source Data Model and API for IC Design-
Author*Michaela Guiney, Eric Leavitt (Cadence, United States)
Pagepp. 434 - 436
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4D-2 (Time: 10:45 - 11:15)
TitleOpen Access Overview "Industrial Experience"
Author*Yoshio Inoue (Renesas, Japan)
Pagepp. 437 - 438
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4D-3 (Time: 11:15 - 11:45)
TitleEDA Vendor Adoption
Author*Hillel Ofek (Sagantec, United States)
Pagep. 439
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4D-4 (Time: 11:45 - 12:15)
TitleUtility of the OpenAccess Database in Academic Research
AuthorDavid Papa, *Igor Markov (Univ. of Michigan, United States), Philip Chong (Cadence Design Systems, United States)
Pagepp. 440 - 441
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Session 5A Advances in Simulation Technologies (13:30 - 15:35)
Location: Room 411+412
Chair(s): Shin'ichi Minato (Hokkaido Univ., Japan), Karem Sakallah (Univ. of Michigan, United States)

5A-1 (Time: 13:30 - 13:55)
TitleDepth-Driven Verification of Simultaneous Interfaces
Author*Ilya Wagner, Valeria Bertacco, Todd Austin (Univ. of Michigan, United States)
Pagepp. 442 - 447
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5A-2 (Time: 13:55 - 14:20)
TitleFSM-Based Transaction-Level Functional Coverage for Interface Compliance Verification
Author*Man-Yun Su, Che-Hua Shih, Juinn-Dar Huang, Jing-Yang Jou (National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan)
Pagepp. 448 - 453
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5A-3 (Time: 14:20 - 14:45)
TitleHardware Debugging Method Based on Signal Transitions and Transactions
Author*Nobuyuki Ohba, Kohji Takano (IBM Japan, Japan)
Pagepp. 454 - 459
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5A-4 (Time: 14:45 - 15:10)
TitleCycle Error Correction in Asynchronous Clock Modeling for Cycle-Based Simulation
Author*Junghee Lee, Joonhwan Yi (Samsung Electronics, Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 460 - 465
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5A-5 (Time: 15:10 - 15:35)
TitleA Fast Logic Simulator Using a Look Up Table Cascade Emulator
Author*Hiroki Nakahara, Tsutomu Sasao, Munehiro Matsuura (Kyushu Inst. of Tech., Japan)
Pagepp. 466 - 472
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Session 5B Scheduling for Embedded Systems (13:30 - 15:35)
Location: Room 413
Chair(s): Sri Parameswaran (Univ. of New South Wales, Australia), Sang Lyul Min (Seoul National Univ., Republic of Korea)

5B-1 (Time: 13:30 - 13:55)
TitlePower-Aware Scheduling and Dynamic Voltage Setting for Tasks Running on a Hard Real-Time System
AuthorPeng Rong, *Massoud Pedram (Univ. of Southern California, United States)
Pagepp. 473 - 478
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5B-2 (Time: 13:55 - 14:20)
TitleOptimal TDMA Time Slot and Cycle Length Allocation for Hard Real-Time Systems
Author*Ernesto Wandeler, Lothar Thiele (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Pagepp. 479 - 484
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5B-3 (Time: 14:20 - 14:45)
TitlePOSIX modeling in SystemC
Author*Hector Posadas, Jesus Adamez, Pablo Sanchez, Eugenio Villar (Univ. of Cantabria, Spain), Francisco Blasco (DS2, Spain)
Pagepp. 485 - 490
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5B-4 (Time: 14:45 - 15:10)
TitlePARLGRAN: Parallelism Granularity Selection for Scheduling Task Chains on Dynamically Reconfigurable Architectures
Author*Sudarshan Banerjee, Elaheh Bozorgzadeh, Nikil Dutt (Univ. of California, Irvine, United States)
Pagepp. 491 - 496
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5B-5 (Time: 15:10 - 15:35)
TitleMemory Optimal Single Appearance Schedule with Dynamic Loop Count for Synchronous Dataflow Graphs
Author*Hyunok Oh, Nikil Dutt (Univ. of California, Irvine, United States), Soonhoi Ha (Seoul National Univ., Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 497 - 502
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Session 5C High Frequency Interconnect Effects in Nanometer Technology (13:30 - 15:35)
Location: Room 414+415
Chair(s): Charlie Chung-Ping Chen (National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan), Noel Menezes (Intel, United States)

5C-1 (Time: 13:30 - 13:55)
TitleWire Sizing with Scattering Effect for Nanoscale Interconnection
AuthorSean X. Shi, *David Z. Pan (Univ. of Texas, Austin, United States)
Pagepp. 503 - 508
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5C-2 (Time: 13:55 - 14:20)
TitleAdaptive Admittance-based Conductor Meshing for Interconnect Analysis
Author*Ya-Chi Yang, Cheng-Kok Koh, Venkataramanan Balakrishnan (Purdue Univ., United States)
Pagepp. 509 - 514
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5C-3 (Time: 14:20 - 14:45)
TitleInterconnect RL Extraction at a Single Representative Frequency
Author*Akira Tsuchiya (Kyoto Univ., Japan), Masanori Hashimoto (Osaka Univ., Japan), Hidetoshi Onodera (Kyoto Univ., Japan)
Pagepp. 515 - 520
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5C-4 (Time: 14:45 - 15:10)
TitleAn Efficient Algorithm for 3-D Reluctance Extraction Considering High Frequency Effect
Author*Mengsheng Zhang, Wenjian Yu (Tsinghua Univ., China), Yu Du (Synopsys Inc., United States), Zeyi Wang (Tsinghua Univ., China)
Pagepp. 521 - 526
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5C-5 (Time: 15:10 - 15:35)
TitleMacromodelling Oscillators Using Krylov-Subspace Methods
AuthorXiaolue Lai, *Jaijeet Roychowdhury (Univ. of Minnesota, United States)
Pagepp. 527 - 532
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Session 5D Designers' Forum: Low Power Design (13:30 - 15:30)
Location: Small Auditorium, 5F
Chair(s): Haruyuki Tago (Toshiba, Japan), Makoto Ikeda (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)

5D-1 (Time: 13:30 - 14:00)
TitleLow-Power Design Methodology for Module-wise Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling with Dynamic De-skewing Systems
Author*Takeshi Kitahara, Hiroyuki Hara, Shinichiro Shiratake (Toshiba, Japan), Yoshiki Tsukiboshi (Toshiba Microelectronics Co., Japan), Tomoyuki Yoda, Tetsuaki Utsumi, Fumihiro Minami (Toshiba, Japan)
Pagepp. 533 - 540
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5D-2 (Time: 14:00 - 14:30)
TitleSingle-Chip Multi-Processor Integrating Quadruple 8-Way VLIW Processors with Interface Timing Analysis Considering Power Supply Noise
Author*Satoshi Imai, Atsuki Inoue, Motoaki Matsumura, Kenichi Kawasaki, Atsuhiro Suga (Fujitsu Lab., Japan)
Pagepp. 541 - 546
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5D-3 (Time: 14:30 - 15:00)
TitleA System-level Power-estimation Methodology based on IP-level Modeling, Power-level Adjustment, and Power Accumulation
Author*Masafumi Onouchi, Tetsuya Yamada (Hitachi Ltd., Japan), Kimihiro Morikawa, Isamu Mochizuki, Hidetoshi Sekine (Renesas, Japan)
Pagepp. 547 - 550
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5D-4 (Time: 15:00 - 15:30)
TitlePowerViP: SoC Power Estimation Framework at Transaction Level
Author*Ikhwan Lee, Hyunsuk Kim, Peng Yang, Sungjoo Yoo (Samsung Electronics, Republic of Korea), Eui-Young Chung (Yonsei Univ., Republic of Korea), Kyu-Myung Choi, Jeong-Taek Kong, Soo-Kwan Eo (Samsung Electronics, Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 551 - 558
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Session 6A Power Optimization of Large-Scale Circuits (16:00 - 18:05)
Location: Room 411+412
Chair(s): Sheldon Tan (Univ. of California, Riverside, United States), David Z. Pan (Univ. of Texas, Austin, United States)

6A-1 (Time: 16:00 - 16:25)
TitleMathematically Assisted Adaptive Body Bias (ABB) for Temperature Compensation in Gigascale LSI Systems
AuthorSanjay V Kumar, Chris H Kim, *Sachin S Sapatnekar (Univ. of Minnesota, United States)
Pagepp. 559 - 564
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6A-2 (Time: 16:25 - 16:50)
TitleAnalysis and Optimization of Gate Leakage Current of Power Gating Circuits
Author*Hyung-Ock Kim, Youngsoo Shin (KAIST, Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 565 - 569
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6A-3 (Time: 16:50 - 17:15)
TitleDelay Modeling and Static Timing Analysis for MTCMOS Circuits
Author*Naoaki Ohkubo, Kimiyoshi Usami (Shibaura Inst. of Tech., Japan)
Pagepp. 570 - 575
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6A-4 (Time: 17:15 - 17:40)
TitleSwitching-Activity Driven Gate Sizing and Vth Assignment for Low Power Design
AuthorYu-Hui Huang, *Po-Yuan Chen, TingTing Hwang (National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan)
Pagepp. 576 - 581
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6A-5 (Time: 17:40 - 18:05)
TitlePower Driven Placement with Layout Aware Supply Voltage Assignment for Voltage Island Generation in Dual-Vdd Designs
Author*Bin Liu, Yici Cai, Qiang Zhou, Xianlong Hong (Tsinghua Univ., China)
Pagepp. 582 - 587
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Session 6B Advanced Memory and Processor Architectures for MPSoC (16:00 - 18:05)
Location: Room 413
Chair(s): Soonhoi Ha (Seoul National Univ., Republic of Korea), Youn-Long Lin (National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan)

6B-1 (Time: 16:00 - 16:25)
TitleReusable Component IP Design using Refinement-based Design Environment
Author*Sanggyu Park, Sang-Yong Yoon, Soo-Ik Chae (Seoul National Univ., Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 588 - 593
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6B-2 (Time: 16:25 - 16:50)
TitleAn Interface-Circuit Synthesis Method with Configurable Processor Core in IP-Based SoC Designs
Author*Shunitsu Kohara, Naoki Tomono, Jumpei Uchida, Yuichiro Miyaoka, Nozomu Togawa, Masao Yanagisawa, Tatsuo Ohtsuki (Waseda Univ., Japan)
Pagepp. 594 - 599
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6B-3 (Time: 16:50 - 17:15)
TitleA Real-Time and Bandwidth Guaranteed Arbitration Algorithm for SoC Bus Communication
AuthorChien-Hua Chen, *Geeng-Wei Lee, Juinn-Dar Huang, Jing-Yang Jou (National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan)
Pagepp. 600 - 605
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6B-4 (Time: 17:15 - 17:40)
TitleHierarchical Memory Size Estimation for Loop Fusion and Loop Shifting in Data-Dominated Applications
Author*Qubo Hu (Univ. of Trondheim, Norway), Arnout Vandecappelle, Martin Palkovic (IMEC, Belgium), Per Gunnar Kjeldsberg (Univ. of Trondheim, Norway), Erik Brockmeyer, Francky Catthoor (IMEC, Belgium)
Pagepp. 606 - 611
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6B-5 (Time: 17:40 - 18:05)
TitleA Novel Instruction Scratchpad Memory Optimization Method based on Concomitance Metric
AuthorAndhi Janapsatya, Aleksandar Ignjatovic, *Sri Parameswaran (Univ. of New South Wales, Australia)
Pagepp. 612 - 617
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Session 6C New Routing Techniques (16:00 - 18:05)
Location: Room 414+415
Chair(s): Ting-Chi Wang (National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan), Vijay Pitchumani (Intel, United States)

6C-1 (Time: 16:00 - 16:25)
TitleDraXRouter: Global Routing in X-Architecture with Dynamic Resource Assignment
Author*Zhen Cao, Tong Jing (Tsinghua Univ., China), Yu Hu, Yiyu Shi (Univ. of California, Los Angeles, United States), Xianlong Hong (Tsinghua Univ., China), Xiaodong Hu, Guiying Yan (Institute of Applied Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Pagepp. 618 - 623
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6C-2 (Time: 16:25 - 16:50)
TitleDiagonal Routing in High Performance Microprocessor Design
AuthorNoriyuki Ito, Hideaki Katagiri, Ryoichi Yamashita, Hiroshi Ikeda, Hiroyuki Sugiyama, *Hiroaki Komatsu, Yoshiyasu Tanamura, Akihiko Yoshitake, Kazuhiro Nonomura, Kinya Ishizaka, Hiroaki Adachi, Yutaka Mori, Yutaka Isoda, Yaroku Sugiyama (Fujitsu, Japan)
Pagepp. 624 - 629
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6C-3 (Time: 16:50 - 17:15)
TitleCDCTree: Novel Obstacle-Avoiding Routing Tree Construction based on Current Driven Circuit Model
AuthorYiyu Shi (Univ. of California, Los Angeles, United States), Tong Jing (Tsinghua Univ., China), *Lei He (Univ. of California, Los Angeles, United States), Zhe Feng, Xianlong Hong (Tsinghua Univ., China)
Pagepp. 630 - 635
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6C-4 (Time: 17:15 - 17:40)
TitleA Novel Framework for Multilevel Full-Chip Gridless Routing
Author*Tai-Chen Chen, Yao-Wen Chang (National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan), Shyh-Chang Lin (SpringSoft, Inc., Taiwan)
Pagepp. 636 - 641
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6C-5 (Time: 17:40 - 18:05)
TitleMonotonic Parallel and Orthogonal Routing for Single-Layer Ball Grid Array Packages
Author*Yoichi Tomioka, Atsushi Takahashi (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)
Pagepp. 642 - 647
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Session 6D Designers' Forum Panel: (16:30 - 18:00)
Location: Small Auditorium, 5F

6D-1 (Time: 16:30 - 18:00)
TitleFunctional Verification -now and future-
AuthorOrganizer: Haruyuki Tago (Senior Manager, TOSHIBA, Japan), Moderator: Yoshio Masubuchi (Assistant to General Manager, TOSHIBA, Japan), Panelists: Sanjay Gupta (IBM, United States), Michael Stellfox (Group Director, Cadence, United States), Tetsuji Sumioka (Senior Manager, Sony, Japan), Sunao Torii (Principal Researcher, NEC, Japan)
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Friday January 27, 2006

Session 3K Keynote Address III (9:00 - 10:00)
Location: Small Auditorium, 5F
Chair(s): Fumiyasu Hirose (Cadence, Japan)

3K-1 (Time: 9:00 - 10:00)
TitleEffective Platform-based Development for Large-scale Systems Design
AuthorYukichi Niwa (Senior Advisory Director, Group Executive of Platform Technology Development Headquarters, CANON INC., Japan)
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Session 7A Minimization of Test Cost and Power (10:15 - 12:20)
Location: Room 411+412
Chair(s): Seiji Kajihara (Kyushu Inst. of Tech., Japan), Satoshi Ohtake (NAIST, Japan)

7A-1 (Time: 10:15 - 10:40)
TitleA Routability Constrained Scan Chain Ordering Technique for Test Power Reduction
Author*Xuan-Lun Huang, Jiun-Lang Huang (National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan)
Pagepp. 648 - 652
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7A-2 (Time: 10:40 - 11:05)
TitleFCSCAN: An Efficient Multiscan-based Test Compression Technique for Test Cost Reduction
Author*Youhua Shi, Nozomu Togawa, Shinji Kimura, Masao Yanagisawa, Tatsuo Ohtsuki (Waseda Univ., Japan)
Pagepp. 653 - 658
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7A-3 (Time: 11:05 - 11:30)
TitleCompaction of Pass/Fail-based Diagnostic Test Vectors for Combinational and Sequential Circuits
Author*Yoshinobu Higami (Ehime Univ., Japan), Kewal K. Saluja (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, United States), Hiroshi Takahashi, Shin-ya Kobayashi, Yuzo Takamatsu (Ehime Univ., Japan)
Pagepp. 659 - 664
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7A-4 (Time: 11:30 - 11:55)
TitleLow-Overhead Design of Soft-Error-Tolerant Scan Flip-Flops with Enhanced-Scan Capability
AuthorAshish Goel (Purdue Univ., United States), Swarup Bhunia (Case Western Reserve Univ., United States), Hamid Mahmoodi (San Francisco State Univ., United States), *Kaushik Roy (Purdue Univ., United States)
Pagepp. 665 - 670
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7A-5 (Time: 11:55 - 12:20)
TitleA Memory Grouping Method for Sharing Memory BIST Logic
Author*Masahide Miyazaki, Tomokazu Yoneda, Hideo Fujiwara (NAIST, Japan)
Pagepp. 671 - 676
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Session 7B Substrate Coupling and Analog Synthesis (10:15 - 12:20)
Location: Room 413
Chair(s): Jaijeet Roychowdhury (Univ. of Minnesota, United States), Tomohisa Kimura (Toshiba, Japan)

7B-1 (Time: 10:15 - 10:40)
TitleEquivalent Circuit Modeling of Guard Ring Structures for Evaluation of Substrate Crosstalk Isolation
Author*Daisuke Kosaka, Makoto Nagata (Kobe Univ., Japan)
Pagepp. 677 - 682
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7B-2 (Time: 10:40 - 11:05)
TitleA New Boundary Element Method for Accurate Modeling of Lossy Substrates with Arbitrary Doping Profiles
Author*Xiren Wang, Wenjian Yu, Zeyi Wang (Tsinghua Univ., China)
Pagepp. 683 - 688
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7B-3 (Time: 11:05 - 11:30)
TitleParasitics Extraction Involving 3-D Conductors based on Multi-layered Green's Function
AuthorZuochang Ye, *Zhiping Yu (Tsinghua Univ., China)
Pagepp. 689 - 693
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7B-4 (Time: 11:30 - 11:55)
TitleSignal-Path Driven Partition and Placement for Analog Circuit
Author*Di Long, Xianlong Hong, Sheqin Dong (Tsinghua Univ., China)
Pagepp. 694 - 699
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7B-5 (Time: 11:55 - 12:20)
TitleAn Approach to Topology Synthesis of Analog Circuits Using Hierarchical Blocks and Symbolic Analysis
Author*Xiaoying Wang, Lars Hedrich (Univ. of Frankfurt, Germany)
Pagepp. 700 - 705
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Session 7C Statistical and Yield Analysis (10:15 - 12:20)
Location: Room 414+415
Chair(s): Hiroo Masuda (STARC, Japan), Seijiro Moriyama (PDF Solutions, Japan)

7C-1 (Time: 10:15 - 10:40)
TitleStatistical Corner Conditions of Interconnect Delay (Corner LPE Specifications)
Author*Kenta Yamada, Noriaki Oda (NEC Electronics, Japan)
Pagepp. 706 - 711
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7C-2 (Time: 10:40 - 11:05)
TitleSpeed Binning Aware Design Methodology to Improve Profit under Parameter Variations
AuthorAnimesh Datta (Purdue Univ., United States), Swarup Bhunia (Case Western Reserve Univ., United States), Jung Hwan Choi, Saibal Mukhopadhyay, *Kaushik Roy (Purdue Univ., United States)
Pagepp. 712 - 717
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7C-3 (Time: 11:05 - 11:30)
TitleYield-Area Optimizations of Digital Circuits Using Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm (YOGA)
AuthorVineet Agarwal, *Janet Wang (Univ. of Arizona, United States)
Pagepp. 718 - 723
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7C-4 (Time: 11:30 - 11:55)
TitleA Probabilistic Analysis of Pipelined Global Interconnect Under Process Variations
Author*Navneeth Kankani, Vineet Agarwal, Janet M Wang (Univ. of Arizona, United States)
Pagepp. 724 - 729
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7C-5 (Time: 11:55 - 12:20)
TitleYield-Preferred Via Insertion Based on Novel Geotopological Technology
AuthorFangyi Luo (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, United States), *Yongbo Jia (Nannor Technologies, Inc., United States), Wayne Wei-Ming Dai (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, United States)
Pagepp. 730 - 735
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Session 7D Special Session: H.264/AVC Design Challenges and Solutions (10:15 - 12:20)
Location: Room 416+417
Chair(s): Wayne Wolf (Princeton Univ., United States)

7D-1 (Time: 10:15 - 10:35)
TitleIntroduction to H.264 Advanced Video Coding
AuthorJian-Wen Chen, Chao-Yang Kao, *Youn-Long Lin (National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan)
Pagepp. 736 - 741
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7D-2 (Time: 10:35 - 10:55)
TitleAlgorithms and DSP Implementation of H.264/AVC
AuthorHung-Chih Lin, Yu-Jen Wang, Kai-Ting Cheng, Shang-Yu Yeh, Wei-Nien Chen, Chia-Yang Tsai, Tian-Sheuan Chang, *Hsueh-Ming Hang (National Chiao-Tung Univ., Taiwan)
Pagepp. 742 - 749
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7D-3 (Time: 10:55 - 11:15)
TitleHardware Architecture Design of an H.264/AVC Video Codec
AuthorTung-Chien Chen, Chung-Jr Lian, *Liang-Gee Chen (National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan)
Pagepp. 750 - 757
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7D-4 (Time: 11:15 - 11:35)
TitleASIP Approach for Implementation of H.264/AVC
AuthorSung Dae Kim, Jeong Hoo Lee, Chung Jin Hyun, *Myung Hoon Sunwoo (Ajou Univ., Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 758 - 764
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7D-5 (Time: 11:35 - 12:15)
TitlePanel Discussion
AuthorYoun-Long Lin (National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan), Hsueh-Ming Hang (National Chiao-Tung Univ., Taiwan), Liang-Gee Chen (National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan), Myung Hoon Sunwoo (Ajou Univ., Republic of Korea)
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Session 8A Floorplanning (13:30 - 15:35)
Location: Room 411+412
Chair(s): Yao-Wen Chang (National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan), Shigetoshi Nakatake (Univ. of Kitakyushu, Japan)

8A-1 (Time: 13:30 - 13:55)
TitleFast Substrate Noise-Aware Floorplanning with Preference Directed Graph for Mixed-Signal SOCs
Author*Minsik Cho, Hongjoong Shin, David Z. Pan (Univ. of Texas, Austin, United States)
Pagepp. 765 - 770
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8A-2 (Time: 13:55 - 14:20)
TitleA Fixed-die Floorplanning Algorithm Using an Analytical Approach
Author*Yong Zhan, Yan Feng, Sachin S. Sapatnekar (Univ. of Minnesota, United States)
Pagepp. 771 - 776
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8A-3 (Time: 14:20 - 14:45)
TitleA Multi-Technology-Process Reticle Floorplanner and Wafer Dicing Planner for Multi-Project Wafers
Author*Chien-Chang Chen, Wai-Kei Mak (National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan)
Pagepp. 777 - 782
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8A-4 (Time: 14:45 - 15:10)
TitleDesign Space Exploration for Minimizing Multi-Project Wafer Production Cost
AuthorRung-Bin Lin, *Meng-Chiou Wu, Wei-Chiu Tseng, Ming-Hsine Kuo, Tsai-Ying Lin, Shr-Cheng Tsai (Yuan Ze Univ., Taiwan)
Pagepp. 783 - 788
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8A-5 (Time: 15:10 - 15:35)
TitleSAT-Based Optimal Hypergraph Partitioning with Replication
Author*Michael G. Wrighton (Tabula, Inc., United States), Andre M. DeHon (California Inst. of Tech., United States)
Pagepp. 789 - 795
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Session 8B Memory Optimization for Embedded Systems (13:30 - 15:35)
Location: Room 413
Chair(s): Hiroyuki Tomiyama (Nagoya Univ., Japan), Preeti Ranjan Panda (Indian Inst. of Tech., Delhi, India)

8B-1 (Time: 13:30 - 13:55)
TitleFinding Optimal L1 Cache Configuration for Embedded Systems
AuthorAndhi Janapsatya, Aleksandar Ignjatovic, *Sri Parameswaran (Univ. of New South Wales, Australia)
Pagepp. 796 - 801
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8B-2 (Time: 13:55 - 14:20)
TitleMemory Size Computation for Multimedia Processing Applications
AuthorHongwei Zhu, Ilie I. Luican, *Florin Balasa (Univ. of Illinois, Chicago, United States)
Pagepp. 802 - 807
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8B-3 (Time: 14:20 - 14:45)
TitleMaximizing Data Reuse for Minimizing Memory Space Requirements and Execution Cycles
AuthorMahmut Kandemir, Guangyu Chen, *Feihui Li (Pennsylvania State Univ., United States)
Pagepp. 808 - 813
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8B-4 (Time: 14:45 - 15:10)
TitleCompiler-Guided Data Compression for Reducing Memory Consumption of Embedded Applications
AuthorOzcan Ozturk, Guangyu Chen, *Mahmut Kandemir (Pennsylvania State Univ., United States), Ibrahim Kolcu (Univ. of Manchester, Great Britain)
Pagepp. 814 - 819
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8B-5 (Time: 15:10 - 15:35)
TitleAnalysis of Scratch-Pad and Data-Cache Performance Using Statistical Methods
Author*Javed Absar (IMEC, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium), Francky Catthoor (IMEC, Belgium)
Pagepp. 820 - 825
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Session 8C Inductive Issues in Power Grids and Packages (13:30 - 15:35)
Location: Room 414+415
Chair(s): Takashi Sato (Renesas, Japan)

8C-1 (Time: 13:30 - 13:55)
TitleEfficient Early Stage Resonance Estimation Techniques for C4 Package
Author*Jin Shi, Yici Cai (Tsinghua Univ., China), Shelton X-D Tan (Univ. of California, Riverside, United States), Xianlong Hong (Tsinghua Univ., China)
Pagepp. 826 - 831
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8C-2 (Time: 13:55 - 14:20)
TitleParallel-Distributed Time-Domain Circuit Simulation of Power Distribution Networks with Frequency-Dependent Parameters
Author*Takayuki Watanabe (Univ. of Shizuoka, Japan), Yuichi Tanji (Kagawa Univ., Japan), Hidemasa Kubota, Hideki Asai (Shizuoka Univ., Japan)
Pagepp. 832 - 837
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8C-3 (Time: 14:20 - 14:45)
TitlePower Distribution Techniques for Dual VDD Circuits
Author*Sarvesh Hemchandra Kulkarni, Dennis Sylvester (Univ. of Michigan, United States)
Pagepp. 838 - 843
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8C-4 (Time: 14:45 - 15:10)
TitleCalculating Frequency-Dependent Inductance of VLSI Interconnect by Complete Multiple Reciprocity Boundary Element Method
Author*Changhao Yan, Wenjian Yu, Zeyi Wang (Tsinghua Univ., China)
Pagepp. 844 - 849
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8C-5 (Time: 15:10 - 15:35)
TitleControlling Inductive Cross-talk and Power in Off-chip Buses using CODECs
AuthorBrock LaMeres (Agilent Technologies Inc., United States), Kanupriya Gulati, *Sunil Khatri (Texas A&M Univ., United States)
Pagepp. 850 - 855
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Session 8D Designers' Forum: "Cell" Processor (13:30 - 15:30)
Location: Small Auditorium, 5F
Chair(s): Haruyuki Tago (Toshiba, Japan), Makoto Ikeda (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)

8D-1 (Time: 13:30 - 14:00)
TitleA New Test and Characterization Scheme for 10+ GHz Low Jitter Wide Band PLL
Author*Kazuhiko Miki (Toshiba, Japan), David Boerstler, Eskinder Hailu, Jieming Qi, Sarah Pettengill (IBM Microelectronics, United States), Yuichi Goto (Toshiba, Japan)
Pagepp. 856 - 859
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8D-2 (Time: 14:00 - 14:30)
TitleAn SPU Reference Model for Simulation, Random Test Generation and Verification
Author*Yukio Watanabe (Toshiba, Japan), Balazs Sallay, Brad Michael, Daniel Brokenshire, Gavin Meil, Hazim Shafi (IBM, United States), Daisuke Hiraoka (Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., Japan)
Pagepp. 860 - 866
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8D-3 (Time: 14:30 - 15:00)
TitleA Cycle Accurate Power Estimation Tool
Author*Rajat Chaudhry, Daniel Stasiak, Stephen Posluszny, Sang Dhong (IBM, United States)
Pagepp. 867 - 870
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8D-4 (Time: 15:00 - 15:30)
TitleKey Features of the Design Methodology Enabling a Multi-Core SoC Implementation of a First-Generation CELL Processor
Author*Dac Pham, Hans-Werner Anderson, Erwin Behnen, Mark Bolliger, Sanjay Gupta, Peter Hofstee, Paul Harvey, Charles Johns, Jim Kahle (IBM, United States), Atsushi Kameyama (Toshiba America Electronic Components, United States), John Keaty, Bob Le, Sang Lee, Tuyen Nguyen, John Petrovick, Mydung Pham, Juergen Pille, Stephen Posluszny, Mack Riley, Joseph Verock, James Warnock, Steve Weitzel, Dieter Wendel (IBM, United States)
Pagepp. 871 - 878
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Session 9A High-Level Synthesis (16:00 - 18:05)
Location: Room 411+412
Chair(s): Shigeru Yamashita (NAIST, Japan), Youngsoo Shin (KAIST, Republic of Korea)

9A-1 (Time: 16:00 - 16:25)
TitleTAPHS: Thermal-Aware Unified Physical-Level and High-Level Synthesis
Author*Zhenyu (Peter) Gu (Northwestern Univ., United States), Yonghong Yang (Queen's Univ., Canada), Jia Wang, Robert P. Dick (Northwestern Univ., United States), Li Shang (Queen's Univ., Canada)
Pagepp. 879 - 885
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9A-2 (Time: 16:25 - 16:50)
TitleAn Automated, Efficient and Static Bit-width Optimization Methodology Towards Maximum Bit-width-to-Error Tradeoff With Affine Arithmetic Model
Author*Yu Pu, Yajun Ha (National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore)
Pagepp. 886 - 891
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9A-3 (Time: 16:50 - 17:15)
TitleAbridged Addressing: A Low Power Memory Addressing Strategy
Author*Preeti Ranjan Panda (Indian Inst. of Tech., Delhi, India)
Pagepp. 892 - 897
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9A-4 (Time: 17:15 - 17:40)
TitleUsing Speculative Computation and Parallelizing Techniques to Improve Scheduling of Control based Designs
AuthorRoberto Cordone (Univ. degli studi di Crema, Italy), *Fabrizio Ferrandi, Gianluca Palermo, Marco Domenico Santambrogio, Donatella Sciuto (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Pagepp. 898 - 904
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9A-5 (Time: 17:40 - 18:05)
TitleWorst Case Execution Time Analysis for Synthesized Hardware
Author*Jun-hee Yoo, Xingguang Feng, Kiyoung Choi (Seoul National Univ., Republic of Korea), Eui-Young Chung, Kyu-Myung Choi (Samsung Electronics, Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 905 - 910
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Session 9B Modeling, Compilation and Optimization of Embedded Architectures (16:00 - 18:05)
Location: Room 413
Chair(s): Hiroyuki Tomiyama (Nagoya Univ., Japan), Lovic Gauthier (FLEETS, Japan)

9B-1 (Time: 16:00 - 16:25)
TitleWorkload Prediction and Dynamic Voltage Scaling for MPEG Decoding
AuthorYing Tan, Parth Malani, Qinru Qiu, *Qing Wu (State Univ. of New York, Binghamton, United States)
Pagepp. 911 - 916
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9B-2 (Time: 16:25 - 16:50)
TitleLazy BTB: Reduce BTB Energy Consumption Using Dynamic Profiling
Author*Yen-Jen Chang (National Chung-Hsing Univ., Taiwan)
Pagepp. 917 - 922
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9B-3 (Time: 16:50 - 17:15)
TitleCache Size Selection for Performance, Energy and Reliability of Time-Constrained Systems
AuthorYuan Cai (Univ. of Iowa, United States), Marcus T. Schmitz, Alireza Ejlali, Bashir M. Al-Hashimi (Univ. of Southampton, Great Britain), *Sudhakar M. Reddy (Univ. of Iowa, United States)
Pagepp. 923 - 928
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9B-4 (Time: 17:15 - 17:40)
TitleReducing Dynamic Compilation Overhead by Overlapping Compilation and Execution
AuthorPriya Unnikrishnan (IBM Toronto, Canada), Mahmut Kandemir, *Feihui Li (Pennsylvania State Univ., United States)
Pagepp. 929 - 934
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9B-5 (Time: 17:40 - 18:05)
TitleFunctional Modeling Techniques for Efficient Sw Code Generation of Video Codec Application
Author*Sang-Il Han (TIMA Laboratory, France), Soo-Ik Chae (Seoul National Univ., Republic of Korea), Ahmed Amine Jerraya (TIMA Laboratory, France)
Pagepp. 935 - 940
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Session 9C Statistical Design (16:00 - 18:05)
Location: Room 414+415
Chair(s): Sachin Sapatnekar (Univ. of Minnesota, United States), Sunil Khatri (Texas A&M Univ., United States)

9C-1 (Time: 16:00 - 16:25)
TitleConvergence-Provable Statistical Timing Analysis with Level-Sensitive Latches and Feedback Loops
AuthorLizheng Zhang, Jengliang Tsai, Weijen Chen, Yuhen Hu, *Charlie Chungping Chen (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, United States)
Pagepp. 941 - 946
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9C-2 (Time: 16:25 - 16:50)
TitleParameterized Block-Based Non-Gaussian Statistical Gate Timing Analysis
AuthorSoroush Abbaspour, Hanif Fatemi, *Massoud Pedram (Univ. of Southern California, United States)
Pagepp. 947 - 952
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9C-3 (Time: 16:50 - 17:15)
TitleStatistical Leakage Minimization through Joint Selection of Gate Sizes, Gate Lengths and Threshold Voltage
Author*Sarvesh Bhardwaj, Yu Cao, Sarma Vrudhula (Arizona State Univ., United States)
Pagepp. 953 - 958
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9C-4 (Time: 17:15 - 17:40)
TitleStatistical Bellman-Ford Algorithm With An Application to Retiming
Author*Mongkol Ekpanyapong (Georgia Inst. of Tech., United States), Thaisiri Watewai (Univ. of California, Berkeley, United States), Sung Kyu Lim (Georgia Inst. of Tech., United States)
Pagepp. 959 - 964
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9C-5 (Time: 17:40 - 18:05)
TitleAn Exact Algorithm for the Statistical Shortest Path Problem
AuthorLiang Deng, *Martin D. F. Wong (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, United States)
Pagepp. 965 - 970
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Session 9D Designers' Forum Panel: (16:30 - 18:00)
Location: Small Auditorium, 5F

9D-1 (Time: 16:30 - 18:00)
TitleTop 10 Design Issues by LSI Designers versus EDA Developers
AuthorOrganizer: Haruyuki Tago (Senior Manager, TOSHIBA, Japan), Moderator: Yoshiaki Hagihara (Sony Fellow, Sony, Japan), Panelists: Raul Camposano (Sr. VP&CTO, Synopsys, United States), Soo-Kwan Eo (Sr. VP, SAMSUNG, Republic of Korea), Joe Sawichi (VP, Mentor, United States), Hirofumi Taguchi (General manager, Matsushita, Japan), Yasuhiro Tani (Director, CANON, Japan), Ted Vucurevich (CTO, Cadence, Republic of Korea)
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