by admin | Oct 13, 2017 | Ieee 2016
Today’s multiprocessor platforms employ the network-on-chip (NoC) architecture as the preferable communication backbone. Conventional NoCs are designed predominantly for unicast data exchanges. In such NoCs, the multicast traffic is generally handled by converting...
by admin | Oct 13, 2017 | Ieee 2016
During fail data collection, a tester collects information that is useful for defect diagnosis. If fail data collection can be terminated early, the tester time as well as the volume of fail data will be reduced. Test reordering can enhance the ability to terminate...
by admin | Oct 13, 2017 | Ieee 2016
Although the modern automatic test pattern generation (ATPG) tools can efficiently produce near-optimal test sets with high fault-coverage for a circuit-under-test, a diagnostic test set (DTS), which is needed for fault localization, is much more challenging to...
by admin | Oct 13, 2017 | Ieee 2016
Approximate computing can decrease the design complexity with an increase in performance and power efficiency for error resilient applications. This brief deals with a new design approach for approximation of multipliers. The partial products of the multiplier are...
by admin | Oct 13, 2017 | Ieee 2016
Stochastic computing (SC) is a promising technique for applications that require low area overhead and fault tolerance, but can tolerate relatively high latency. In the SC paradigm, logical computation is performed on randomized bit streams. In prior work, streams...
by admin | Oct 13, 2017 | Ieee 2016
Soft errors in combinational logic circuits are emerging as a significant reliability concern for nano scale VLSI designs. This paper presents a novel sensitivity-based gate sizing methodology to reduce the soft error rate (SER) of combinational circuits in the...