μComplexity: Estimating processor design effort

Proceedings of the Annual International Symposium on Microarchitecture, MICRO

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 209-218

  Bazeghi, Cyrus ^a   Mesa Martinez, Francisco J ^a   Renau, Jose ^a  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST ESTIMATION; HDL CODE; NONLINEAR MIXED-EFFECTS MODEL; PROCESSOR DESIGN;

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; FLIP FLOP CIRCUITS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PRODUCT DESIGN; PRODUCTIVITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS;

EID: 33749413981     PISSN: 10724451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MICRO.2005.37     Document Type: Conference Paper

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