Integrated Circuit and System Design. Power and Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation

This volume features the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Power and Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation. Papers cover high level design, low power design techniques, low power analog circuits, statistical static timing analysis, power modeling and optimization, low power routing optimization, security and asynchronous design, low power applications, modeling and optimization, and more.

Session 1 - High-Level Design (1).- System-Level Application-Specific NoC Design for Network and Multimedia Applications.- Fast and Accurate Embedded Systems Energy Characterization Using Non-intrusive Measurements.- A Flexible General-Purpose Parallelizing Architecture for Nested Loops in Reconfigurable Platforms.- An Automatic Design Flow for Mapping Application onto a 2D Mesh NoC Architecture.- Session 2 - Low Power Design Techniques.- Template Vertical Dictionary-Based Program Compression Scheme on the TTA.- Asynchronous Functional Coupling for Low Power Sensor Network Processors.- A Heuristic for Reducing Dynamic Power Dissipation in Clocked Sequential Designs.- Low-Power Content Addressable Memory With Read/Write and Matched Mask Ports.- The Design and Implementation of a Power Efficient Embedded SRAM.- Session 3 - Low Power Analog Circuits.- Design of a Linear Power Amplifier with ±1.5V Power Supply Using ALADIN.- Settling Time Minimization of Operational Amplifiers.- Low-Voltage Low-Power Curvature-Corrected Voltage Reference Circuit Using DTMOSTs.- Session 4 - Statistical Static Timing Analysis.- Computation of Joint Timing Yield of Sequential Networks Considering Process Variations.- A Simple Statistical Timing Analysis Flow and Its Application to Timing Margin Evaluation.- A Statistical Approach to the Timing-Yield Optimization of Pipeline Circuits.- Session 5 - Power Modeling and Optimization.- A Novel Gate-Level NBTI Delay Degradation Model with Stacking Effect.- Modelling the Impact of High Level Leakage Optimization Techniques on the Delay of RT-Components.- Logic Style Comparison for Ultra Low Power Operation in 65nm Technology.- Design-In Reliability for 90-65nm CMOS Nodes Submitted to Hot-Carriers and NBTI Degradation.- Session 6 - Low Power Routing Optimization.- Clock Distribution Techniques for Low-EMI Design.- Crosstalk Waveform Modeling Using Wave Fitting.- Weakness Identification for Effective Repair of Power Distribution Network.- New Adaptive Encoding Schemes for Switching Activity Balancing in On-Chip Buses.- On the Necessity of Combining Coding with Spacing and Shielding for Improving Performance and Power in Very Deep Sub-micron Interconnects.- Session 7 - High Level Design (2).- Soft Error-Aware Power Optimization Using Gate Sizing.- Automated Instruction Set Characterization and Power Profile Driven Software Optimization for Mobile Devices.- RTL Power Modeling and Estimation of Sleep Transistor Based Power Gating.- Functional Verification of Low Power Designs at RTL.- XEEMU: An Improved XScale Power Simulator.- Session 8 - Security and Asynchronous Design.- Low Power Elliptic Curve Cryptography.- Design and Test of Self-checking Asynchronous Control Circuit.- An Automatic Design Flow for Implementation of Side Channel Attacks Resistant Crypto-Chips.- Analysis and Improvement of Dual Rail Logic as a Countermeasure Against DPA.- Session 9 - Low Power Applications.- Performance Optimization of Embedded Applications in a Hybrid Reconfigurable Platform.- The Energy Scalability of Wavelet-Based, Scalable Video Decoding.- Direct Memory Access Optimization in Wireless Terminals for Reduced Memory Latency and Energy Consumption.- Poster 1 - Modeling and Optimization.- Exploiting Input Variations for Energy Reduction.- A Model of DPA Syndrome and Its Application to the Identification of Leaking Gates.- Static Power Consumption in CMOS Gates Using Independent Bodies.- Moderate Inversion: Highlights for Low Voltage Design.- On Two-Pronged Power-Aware Voltage Scheduling for Multi-processor Real-Time Systems.- Semi Custom Design: A Case Study on SIMD Shufflers.- Poster 2 - High Level Design.- Optimization for Real-Time Systems with Non-convex Power Versus Speed Models.- Triple-Threshold Static Power Minimization in High-Level Synthesis of VLSI CMOS.- A Fast and Accurate Power Estimation Methodology for QDI Asynchronous Circuits.- Subthreshold Leakage Modeling and Estimation of General CMOS Complex Gates.- A Platform for Mixed HW/SW Algorithm Specifications for the Exploration of SW and HW Partitioning.- Fast Calculation of Permissible Slowdown Factors for Hard Real-Time Systems.- Design Methodology and Software Tool for Estimation of Multi-level Instruction Cache Memory Miss Rate.- Poster 3 - Low Power Techniques and Applications.- A Statistical Model of Logic Gates for Monte Carlo Simulation Including On-Chip Variations.- Switching Activity Reduction of MAC-Based FIR Filters with Correlated Input Data.- Performance of CMOS and Floating-Gate Full-Adders Circuits at Subthreshold Power Supply.- Low-Power Digital Filtering Based on the Logarithmic Number System.- A Power Supply Selector for Energy- and Area-Efficient Local Dynamic Voltage Scaling.- Dependability Evaluation of Time-Redundancy Techniques in Integer Multipliers.- Keynotes.- Design and Industrialization Challenges of Memory Dominated SOCs.- Statistical Static Timing Analysis: A New Approach to Deal with Increased Process Variability in Advanced Nanometer Technologies.- Analog Power Modelling.- Industrial Session - Design Challenges in Real-Life Projects.- Technological Trends, Design Constraints and Design Implementation Challenges in Mobile Phone Platforms.- System Design from Instrument Level Down to ASIC Transistors with Speed and Low Power as Driving Parameters.