Design Challenges for High-Performance Network Interfaces - Guest Editors' Introduction

Guest Editors' Introduction: Challenges for Reliable Design at the Nanoscale

Guest Editors' Introduction: Multiprocessor Systems-on-Chips

HW/SW interfaces allow verification early in the design process. Verification of the HW/SW interface itself imposes new challenges. It is not sufficient to verify the interface independent of its context—the interface must be verified relative to a given hardware platform. Of course, researchers can’t wait until the hardware prototype is available to carry out this verification. Researchers can...

Guest Editors' Introduction: Haptic Rendering-Touch - Enabled Interfaces

Optimizing Network Virtualization in Xen

This paper reports on improvements to Xen’s networking performance resulting from the re-design and the re-implementation of certain aspects of its network virtualization and better support for advanced, hardware memory management features. Our design remains compatible with the basic Xen 2.0 architecture of locating device drivers in a privileged driver domain that has direct access to the dev...

Guest Editors' Introduction: Microprocessor Test and Verification

millions of transistors operating at extraordinarily high speeds. Test and verification of these high-performance devices continuously challenge engineers in every microprocessor design cycle. This special issue presents state-of-the-art techniques for microprocessor test and verification. It aims to provide innovative ideas and new methodologies to solve the difficult challenges facing enginee...