Early estimation of the peak power consumption of a system under development is crucial in assessing the design's thermal profile and reliability, and in benchmarking the chip-level power management features. In this paper, ...

Emerging mission-critical and functional safety applications require high-performance processors that meet strict reliability requirements against random hardware failures. These requirements touch even sub-systems within ...

This chapter evaluates and defines a methodology for the oracle selection of the monitors and knobs to use to configure an HPC system running a scientific application while satisfying the application’s requirements and not ...

Shrinking of device dimensions has undoubtedly enabled the very large scale integration of transistors on electronic chips. However, it has also brought to surface time-zero and time-dependent variation phenomena that ...

Thanks to advances in semiconductor and communication technologies, a multitude of devices can be connected over a network. This widespread interconnectivity among disparate devices has ushered the era of Internet-of-Things ...

The goal of the HARPA solution is to overcome the performance variability (PV) by enabling next-generation embedded and high-performance platforms using heterogeneous many-core processors to provide cost-effectively ...

Latency-insensitive data flow is a design paradigm that tolerates the latency variability of computations and communications and allows for correct-by-construction module integration. In this paper, we aim to reduce the ...

This chapter proposes and analyzes two autonomous, hardware-based monitor/knob solutions for Network-on-Chip (NoC) architectures, which operate at the micro-architectural level. The two proposed techniques tackle power and ...

Timing closure is a complex process that involves many iterative optimization steps applied in various phases of the physical design flow. Cell sizing and transistor threshold selection, as well as datapath and clock ...

Timing-driven placement optimization is applied incrementally in various parts of the flow, together with other timing optimization techniques, to achieve timing closure. In this work, we present a generalized approach for ...