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Tackling the drawbacks of a lagrangian relaxation based discrete gate sizing algorithm
(2018) [Dissertation]The shrink of the devices sizes allows the number of transistors in the integrated circuits to grow, leading to an increase in the leakage power. The discrete gate sizing technique consists in assigning each gate of the ... -
Técnicas de baixo consumo para módulos de hardware de codificação de vídeo H.264
(2011) [Dissertation]Este trabalho trata da aplicação de técnicas de minimização de consumo de potência para blocos digitais para o algoritmo de SAD e o decodificador H.264/AVC Intra-Only. Na descrição de hardware são acrescidas as técnicas ... -
Temperature compensated subthreshold CMOS voltage references for ultra low power applications
(2017) [Dissertation]This work proposes novel temperature-compensated subthreshold voltage references for ultra-low power and ultra-low voltage applications. The core of the proposed circuits is the self-cascode MOSFET (SCM) since it can operate ... -
Teste de amplificadores diferenciais através de medida DC e transiente de tensões internas de polarização
(2015) [Dissertation]Este trabalho apresenta estudos voltados ao teste de Amplificadores Diferenciais. No primeiro momento, por meio de simulações SPICE, falhas catastróficas são injetadas em dois Amplificadores Diferenciais, projetados para ... -
The effects of the compiler optimizations in embedded processors reliability
(2017) [Dissertation]The recent advances in the embedded processors increase the compilers complexity, and the usage of heterogeneous resources such as Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) and Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) integrated with the ... -
Towards resilient graphics processing units : designing fault tolerance techniques for radiation-induced faults
(2024) [Thesis]Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) have emerged as powerful computational tools, enabling high-performance parallel processing and driving significant advancements in various domains. However, their integration into safety-critical ... -
Transient-fault robust systems exploiting quasi-delay insensitive asynchronous circuits
(2010) [Thesis]Os circuitos integrados recentes baseados em tecnologias nanoeletrônicas estão significativamente mais vulneráveis a falhas transientes. Os erros gerados são assim também mais críticos do que eram antes. Esta tese apresenta ... -
Transistor level automatic generation of radiation-hardened circuits
(2007) [Thesis]Tecnologias submicrônicas (DSM) têm inserido novos desafios ao projeto de circuitos devido a redução de geometrias, redução na tensão de alimentação, aumento da freqüência e aumento da densidade de lógica. Estas características ... -
UFRGSPlace : a wirelength driven FPGA placement algorithm
(2018) [Dissertation]FPGAs are semiconductor devices that can be reprogrammed to reach different application requirements after manufacturing. The architecture of an FPGA can be homogeneous, containing only standard blocks of an FPGA, IOs and ... -
Use of approximate triple modular redundancy for fault tolerance in digital circuits
(2018) [Thesis]Triple Modular Redundancy (TMR) is a well-known mitigation technique, which provides a full masking capability to single faults, although at a great cost in terms of area and power consumption. For that reason, partial ... -
Using model based analysis to improve software energy efficiency
(2022) [Thesis]Recently, energy consumption has become a concern in the software development scenario. This is mainly due to the current different types of platforms where software runs. Studies show that users tend to reject mobile ... -
Utilizando folding no projeto de portas lógicas robustas à variabilidade de processo
(2013) [Dissertation]Este trabalho visa explorar técnicas de projeto de células que possibilitem a minimização dos efeitos da variabilidade de processo sobre o comportamento elétrico dos circuitos integrados. Para este trabalho foram abordados ... -
Variability and voltage scaling aware FinFET design
(2020) [Dissertation]Technology scaling alongside the increasing process variability impact in modern technology nodes are the main reasons to control deviations over metrics in IC nanometer designs. Also, given the increasing set of devices ... -
VEasy : a tool suite towards the functional verification challenges
(2011) [Thesis]Esta dissertação descreve um conjunto de ferramentas, VEasy, o qual foi desenvolvido especificamente para auxiliar no processo de Verificação Funcional. VEasy contém quatro módulos principais, os quais realizam tarefas-chave ... -
Voltage scaling interfaces for multi-voltage digital systems
(2015) [Dissertation]Multiple Voltage Digital Systems exploit the concept of voltage scaling by applying different supplies to particular regions of the chip. Each of those regions belongs to a power domain and may have two or more supply ...
