Software adaptation in quality sensitive applications to deal with hardware variability

Proceedings of the ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, GLSVLSI

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 85-90

  Pant, Aashish ^a   Gupta, Puneet ^a   Van Der Schaar, Mihaela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptation; hardware software interface; variability

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION ADAPTATION; APPLICATION QUALITY; APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS; H.264 ENCODERS; HARDWARE CHARACTERISTICS; IMPLEMENTATION DESIGN; LIMITED INFORMATION; MEASUREMENT POINTS; PROCESS VARIATION; SENSITIVE APPLICATION; SOFTWARE ADAPTATION; SOFTWARE INTERFACES; YIELD IMPROVEMENT;

DESIGN; HARDWARE; LAKES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 77954497191     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1785481.1785501     Document Type: Conference Paper

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