D&R Industry Articles (February 2014)

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Next Generation Wireless IP for the Internet of Things

Most embedded systems today use some form of wireless connectivity. Specifically, the Internet of Things would not be possible without wireless interfaces. There are many considerations in the integration of wireless connectivity into the core system-on-chip around which systems are built. This paper provides a perspective on the integration of wireless connectivity subsystems within the system-on-chip (SoC).

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Impact of wire resistance in advance technology

This article illustrates how wire delay causes skew/timing problems when you are optimizing multi-corner design and how wire resistance can be optimized to achieve best performance during the physical implementation flow.

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A Clock Tree Synthesis Flow Tailored for Low Power

This paper aims to share practical experience regarding building a power-optimized clock tree, determining the optimum targets for clock tree synthesis (CTS) and monitoring the quality of results (QoR) along the way. The experiments that will be presented were conducted on a mixed-mode design, which has multiple power domains with 100K+ registers, and which was intended for a 55nm CMOS technology node. The methodology presented here resulted in clock tree power savings of up to 20% according to simulation results.

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End-to-End Simulation of Network-based Computing Systems

This paper describes a TLM-based simulation framework developed to support the design, performance estimation and validation of distributed computing systems.