Numerical simulations in Computational Fluid Dynamics, involves modules solving sets of equations (2nd-order Crank-Nicolson/Adams-Bashforth, 3rd-order Runge-Kutta time-stepping etc.) which have some common computation features, and performed iteratively. Similarly video and image processing applications involve tasks (mosaic building to compress video into images, image compression such as DCT,...

The continuous innovation of semiconductor technology enables more complex System on-Chip (SoC) designs. Tens, even hundreds of intellectual properties (IPs) are integrated into an SoC to provide various functions, including communications, networking, multimedia, storage, etc. The bus scheme connects multiple IP cores with a cost efficient shared medium. The bus-based scheme still fails to sat...

Hybrid FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) are composed of general-purpose logic resources with different granularities, together with domain-specific coarse-grained units. This thesis proposes a novel hybrid FPGA architecture with embedded coarse-grained Floating Point Units (FPUs) to improve the floating point capability of FPGAs. Based on the proposed hybrid FPGA architecture, we examine ...

Title of Document: HIGH-PERFORMANCE FPAA DESIGN FOR HIERARCHICAL IMPLEMENTATION OF ANALOG AND MIXED-SIGNAL SYSTEMS Hu Huang, Doctor of Philosophy, 2007 Directed By: Professor Martin Peckerar Professor Joseph Bernstein Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering The design complexity of today’s IC has increased dramatically due to the high integration allowed by advanced CMOS VLSI process. A...

A VLSI chip can today contain hundreds of millions transistors and is expected to contain more than 1 billion transistors in the next decade. In order to handle this rapid growth in integration technology, the design procedure is therefore divided into a sequence of design steps. Circuit layout is the design step in which a physical realization of a circuit is obtained from its functional descr...

ing closure is very complex and can only be assured by accurately modeling and evaluating the propagation delays of the librar y cells, the physical placement of the cells and the electrical characteristics of the interconnect. Signal integrity has emerged as a determining factor to not only the timing, but to the functional integrity of the chip as well. As the ratio of cross-coupling capacita...

Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are a recent kind of programmable logic device. They allow the implementation of integrated digital electronic circuits without requiring the complex optical, chemical and mechanical processes used in a conventional chip fabrication. FPGAs can be embedded in traditional system designflows to perform prototyping and emulation tasks. In addition, they also e...

The continuous innovation of semiconductor technology enables more complex System on-Chip (SoC) designs. Tens, even hundreds of intellectual properties (IPs) are integrated into an SoC to provide various functions, including communications, networking, multimedia, storage, etc. The bus scheme connects multiple IP cores with a cost efficient shared medium. The bus-based scheme still fails to sat...

Cryptography was and still is one of the most interesting fields in Computer Science-related research. Where its origin lies in military and governmental use, today cryptography is widely used in everyday life. Cryptography secures communication between smart cards and card readers. It scrambles transmissions between DECT telephones and their base stations, it even entered the living rooms thro...

Design methodology of digital circuits is a rapidly changing eld. In the last 20 years, the number of transistors on a single chip has increased from thousands to tens of millions. This sets new demands on the design tools involved, their ability to capture speci cations on a high level, and nally synthesize them into hardware implementations. The introduction of Decision Diagrams (DDs) has bro...