ACM-SIGDA

System Design Automation for Network Processors and Wireless Chipsets

Multimedia Monograph Series, Volume 6

                                                        Based on presentations from ICCAD-2000

                                                        San Jose, California

                                                        November 2000

                                                        Edited by Massoud Pedram, University of Southern California

Table of Contents

Preface

Embedded Tutorial - Communication Designs: System Synthesis Challenges and Opportunities

Based on Session 2A of ICCAD-2000.

Moderator: Ellen M. Sentovich

• Tutorial Part I

  •  Challenges and Opportunities in Broadband and Wireless Communication Designs.

    • Authors: Jan M. Rabaey, Miodrag Potkonjak, Farinaz Koushanfar, Suet-Fei Li, Tim Tuan.

• Tutorial Part II

  • Low Power Interconnect Modeling and Optimization.

    • Based on Session 6D of ICCAD-2000.

    • Moderators: Miodrag Potkonjak, Kazutoshi Wakabayashi

  • Bus Optimization for Low-Power Data Path Synthesis Based on Network Flow Method.

    • Authors: Sunpack Hong and Taewhan Kim

  • Coupling-Driven Signal Encoding Scheme for Low-Power Interface Design.

    • Authors: Ki-Wook Kim, Kwang-Hyun Baek, Naresh Shanbhag, C. L. Liu, and Sung-Mo Kang. 

  • Bus Energy Minimization by Transition Pattern Coding (TPC) in Deep Sub-Micron Technologies.

    • Authors: Paul P. Sotiriadis, and Anantha Chandrakasan

• VLIW Exploration and Design Synthesis.

  Based on Session 10B of ICCAD-2000.

  Moderators: Santanu Dutta, Ali Dasdan

  •  Power Exploration for Embedded VLIW Architectures.

    • Authors: Mariagiovanna Sami, Donatella Sciuto, Christina Silvano, Vittorio Zaccaria.

  • Exploring Performance Tradeoffs for Clustered VLIW ASIPs.

    • Authors: Margarida F. Jacome, Gustavo de Veciana, and Viktor Lapinskii.

  • Synthesis of Operation-Centric Hardware Descriptions.

    • Authors: James C. Hoe and Arvind.

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