High-reliability, low-energy microarchitecture synthesis

IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1273-1280

  Dasgupta, Aurobindo ^a   Karri, Ramesh ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts Amherst   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromigration; High level synthesis; Low power

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000053207     PISSN: 02780070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/43.736567     Document Type: Article

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