Dissertations / Theses: 'Systems on chip (SoCs)'

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Yoon, Jang-Sup. "Embedded test circuit and methods for radio frequency (RF) systems-on-a-chip (SoCs)." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2006. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0015657.

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Weiss, Alexander. "Effiziente externe Beobachtung von CPU-Aktivitäten auf SoCs." Doctoral thesis, Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2015. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-184227.

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Die umfassende Beobachtbarkeit von System‐on‐Chips (SoCs) ist eine wichtige Voraussetzung für das effiziente Testen und Debuggen eingebetteter Systeme. Ausgehend von einer Analyse verschiedener Anwendungsfälle ergibt sich ein Katalog von Anforderungen an die Beobachtbarkeit von SoCs. Ein wichtiges Kriterium ist hier die Vollständigkeit der Beobachtung und umfasst die Aktivitäten der CPU (ausgeführte Instruktionen, gelesene und geschriebene Daten, Verhalten des Caches, Ausführungszeiten), des Bussystems und von Umgebungsbedingungen. Weitere Kriterien sind die Echtzeitfähigkeit und die Kontinuität der Beobachtung sowie die gleichzeitige Durchführung verschiedener Beobachtungsaufgaben. Dabei soll es zu einer möglichst geringen Beeinflussung des SoCs kommen. Weitere wichtige Aspekt sind die Kosten der Lösung, die Universalität, die Skalierbarkeit sowie die Latenz der Verfügbarkeit der Beobachtungsergebnisse. Für viele Anwendungen, besonders in sicherheitskritischen Bereichen, muss zudem nachgewiesen werden, dass das Beobachtungsverfahren kein Fehlverhalten des SoCs bewirkt bzw. ein solches maskiert. Eine besondere Herausforderung stellen Multiprozessor‐SoCs (MPSoCs) dar, da hier die Kommunikation zwischen den einzelnen CPUs im Inneren des SoC stattfindet und entsprechend schwierig für einen externen Bobachter sichtbar zu machen ist. Der Stand der Technik zur Beobachtung von SoCs wird im Wesentlichen durch zwei Verfahren dargestellt. Bei der Software‐Instrumentierung wird zum funktionalen Programmcode zusätzlicher Code hinzugefügt, welcher zur Beobachtung des Programms dient. Diese Methode ist einfach und universell anwendbar, erfüllt aber die genannten Kriterien nur sehr eingeschränkt. Nachteilig ist hier der Ressourcenverbrauch im Falle des Verbleibs der Instrumentierung im fertigen Produkt. Wird die Instrumentierung nur temporär dem Code hinzugefügt, muss sichergestellt werden, dass das Beobachtungsergebnis auch für den finalen Code anwendbar ist – was besonders bei ressourcen‐abhängigen Integrationstests nur schwierig erfüllbar ist. Eine alternative Lösung stellt eine spezielle Hardware‐Unterstützung in SoCs („embedded Trace“) dar. Hier werden im SoC Zustandsinformationen (z.B. Taskwechsel, ausgeführte Instruktionen, Datentransfers) gesammelt und mittels Trace‐Nachrichten an den Beobachter übermittelt. Dabei stellt die Bandbreite, die zur Ausgabe der Trace‐Nachrichten vom SoC verfügbar ist, ein entscheidendes Nadelöhr dar ‐ im SoC sind viel mehr den Beobachter interessierende Informationen verfügbar als nach außen transferiert werden können. Damit haben beide dem gegenwärtige Stand der Technik entsprechende Beobachtungsverfahren eine Reihe von Einschränkungen, die sich besonders bei der Vollständigkeit der Beobachtung, der Flexibilität, der Kontinuität und der Unterstützung von MPSoCs zeigen. In dieser Arbeit wird nun ein neuer Ansatz vorgestellt, welcher gegenüber dem Stand der Technik in einigen Bereichen deutliche Verbesserungen bietet. Dabei werden die Trace‐Daten nicht vom zu beobachtenden SoC direkt, sondern aus einer parallel mitlaufenden Emulation gewonnen. Die Bandbreite der für die Synchronisation der Emulation erforderlichen Daten ist in vielen Fällen deutlich geringer als bei der Ausgabe von umfassenden Trace‐Nachrichten mittels „embedded Trace“‐Lösungen. Gleichzeitig ist eine vollständige, äußerst detaillierte Beobachtung der Vorgänge innerhalb des SoC möglich. Das neue Beobachtungsverfahren wurde mittels verschiedener FPGA-basierter Implementierungen evaluiert, hier konnte auch die Anwendbarkeit für MPSoCs gezeigt werden.

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Bolzani, Leticia Maria Veiras. "Explorando uma solução híbrida: hardware+software para a detecção de falhas tempo real em systems-on-chip (SoCs)." Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10923/3146.

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The always increasing number of computer-based safety-critical applications has intensified the research over fault tolerance techniques. While those systems are working, the probability of both permanent and transient faults happens due to the presence of all sort of interference. The common faults are those which affect data and/or modify the expected program execution flow. Thus, the use of techniques allowing detecting these type of faults presents them from propagating to system output. Basically, these techniques are categorized in two groups: software-based approaches and hardware-based approaches. Considering the above introduced, the goal of this work is to specify and to implement a hybrid approach, which combines software-based techniques and hardware-based ones, capable to detect run time data and algorithm control flow faults. It is settled around the techniques proposed in (REBAUDENGO, 2004) and (GOLOUBEVA, 2003). Nevertheless, the proposed approach implements part of its code-transformation rules via software and hardware. These redundant information is added to the software portion and consistency checks are implemented via hardware. Summary, we propose the development of an I-IP (infrastructure intellectual property) core, such as watchdog, to correctly execute the consistency checks concurrently to the application execution. In this work, three different versions of the I-IP were implemented in VHDL and analyzed by means of fault injection experiments. The first implemented version allows data fault detection and, as any prototype, has its limitations. The second version also detects data faults, but eliminates the problems of the former version. The third I-IP version adds the capability of detecting control flow faults to the previous versions of the I-IP. Finally, after implementing these three versions, a fourth version was specified. It adds dependability and robustness to the IIP by using Built-in Self-Test (BIST) techniques. The results obtained from evaluating the different I-IP core versions guarantee that the hybrid approach is efficient, because it features high fault coverage and surpasses the main problems present in software-based techniques proposed in the literature, such as, performance degradation and code/data memory overhead. Finally, this work is a partial result of a joint research project carried by the SiSC Group – PUCRS and CAD – Politecnico di Torino, under the scope of the Alfa Project (##AML/B7-311- 97/0666/II-0086-FI, from 2002 to 2005).
Nos últimos anos, o crescente aumento do número de aplicações críticas baseadas em sistemas eletrônicos, intensificou a pesquisa sobre técnicas de tolerância à falhas. Durante o período de funcionamento destes sistemas, a probabilidade de ocorrerem falhas transientes e permanentes devido à presença de interferências dos mais variados tipos é bastante grande. Dentre as falhas mais freqüentes, salientam-se as falhas que corrompem os dados e as falhas que alteram o fluxo de controle do processador que executa a aplicação. Assim, a utilização de técnicas capazes de detectarem estes tipos de falhas evita que as mesmas se propaguem pelo sistema e acabem gerando saídas incorretas. Basicamente, estas técnicas são classificadas em dois grandes grupos: soluções baseadas em software e soluções baseadas em hardware. Neste contexto, o objetivo principal deste trabalho é especificar e implementar uma solução híbrida, parte em software e parte em hardware, capaz de detectar em tempo de execução eventuais falhas em dados e no fluxo de controle do algoritmo. Esta solução baseia-se nas técnicas propostas em (REBAUDENGO, 2004) e (GOLOUBEVA, 2003) e implementa parte de suas regras de transformação de código via software e parte via hardware. Assim, informações redundantes são agregadas ao código da aplicação e testes de consistência são implementados via hardware. Em resumo, este trabalho propõe o desenvolvimento de um núcleo I-IP (infrastructure intellectual property), tal como um watchdog, para executar os testes de consistência concorrentemente à execução da aplicação. Para isto, três versões diferentes do I-IP foram implementadas em linguagem de descrição de hardware (VHDL) e avaliadas através de experimentos de injeção de falhas.A primeira versão implementada provê a detecção de falhas em dados e, como todo protótipo, este também apresenta algumas restrições e limitações. A segunda versão também detecta falhas em dados, entretanto, supera todos os problemas da versão anterior. A terceira versão do I-IP agrega à versão anterior a capacidade de detectar falhas de fluxo de controle. Finalmente, após a implementação das versões anteriores, foi especificada uma quarta versão que agrega confiabilidade e robustez ao I-IP desenvolvido através da utilização de algumas técnicas de tolerância a falhas e da especificação de um auto-teste funcional. Os resultados obtidos a partir da avaliação das versões do I-IP garantem que a metodologia proposta neste trabalho é bastante eficiente, pois apresenta uma alta cobertura de falhas e supera os principais problemas presentes nas soluções baseadas em software propostas na literatura, ou seja, degradação de desempenho e maior consumo de memória. Finalmente, cabe mencionar que esta dissertação é o resultado parcial de atividades que fazem parte do escopo do Projeto Alfa (#AML/B7-311-97/0666/II-0086-FI) mantido entre os Grupos SiSC – PUCRS (Brasil) e CAD – Politecnico di Torino (Itália) no período de 2002-2005.

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Reehal, Gursharan Kaur. "Designing Low Power and High Performance Network-on-Chip Communication Architectures for Nanometer SoCs." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1340022240.

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Bolzani, Leticia Maria Veiras. "Explorando uma solu??o h?brida : hardware+software para a detec??o de falhas tempo real em systems-on-chip (SoCs)." Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica do Rio Grande do Sul, 2005. http://tede2.pucrs.br/tede2/handle/tede/3001.

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Nos ?ltimos anos, o crescente aumento do n?mero de aplica??es cr?ticas baseadas em sistemas eletr?nicos, intensificou a pesquisa sobre t?cnicas de toler?ncia ? falhas. Durante o per?odo de funcionamento destes sistemas, a probabilidade de ocorrerem falhas transientes e permanentes devido ? presen?a de interfer?ncias dos mais variados tipos ? bastante grande. Dentre as falhas mais freq?entes, salientam-se as falhas que corrompem os dados e as falhas que alteram o fluxo de controle do processador que executa a aplica??o. Assim, a utiliza??o de t?cnicas capazes de detectarem estes tipos de falhas evita que as mesmas se propaguem pelo sistema e acabem gerando sa?das incorretas. Basicamente, estas t?cnicas s?o classificadas em dois grandes grupos: solu??es baseadas em software e solu??es baseadas em hardware. Neste contexto, o objetivo principal deste trabalho ? especificar e implementar uma solu??o h?brida, parte em software e parte em hardware, capaz de detectar em tempo de execu??o eventuais falhas em dados e no fluxo de controle do algoritmo. Esta solu??o baseia-se nas t?cnicas propostas em (REBAUDENGO, 2004) e (GOLOUBEVA, 2003) e implementa parte de suas regras de transforma??o de c?digo via software e parte via hardware. Assim, informa??es redundantes s?o agregadas ao c?digo da aplica??o e testes de consist?ncia s?o implementados via hardware. Em resumo, este trabalho prop?e o desenvolvimento de um n?cleo I-IP (infrastructure intellectual property), tal como um watchdog, para executar os testes de consist?ncia concorrentemente ? execu??o da aplica??o. Para isto, tr?s vers?es diferentes do I-IP foram implementadas em linguagem de descri??o de hardware (VHDL) e avaliadas atrav?s de experimentos de inje??o de falhas. A primeira vers?o implementada prov? a detec??o de falhas em dados e, como todo prot?tipo, este tamb?m apresenta algumas restri??es e limita??es. A segunda vers?o tamb?m detecta falhas em dados, entretanto, supera todos os problemas da vers?o anterior. A terceira vers?o do I-IP agrega ? vers?o anterior a capacidade de detectar falhas de fluxo de controle. Finalmente, ap?s a implementa??o das vers?es anteriores, foi especificada uma quarta vers?o que agrega confiabilidade e robustez ao I-IP desenvolvido atrav?s da utiliza??o de algumas t?cnicas de toler?ncia a falhas e da especifica??o de um auto-teste funcional. Os resultados obtidos a partir da avalia??o das vers?es do I-IP garantem que a metodologia proposta neste trabalho ? bastante eficiente, pois apresenta uma alta cobertura de falhas e supera os principais problemas presentes nas solu??es baseadas em software propostas na literatura, ou seja, degrada??o de desempenho e maior consumo de mem?ria. Finalmente, cabe mencionar que esta disserta??o ? o resultado parcial de atividades que fazem parte do escopo do Projeto Alfa (#AML/B7-311-97/0666/II-0086-FI) mantido entre os Grupos SiSC PUCRS (Brasil) e CAD Politecnico di Torino (It?lia) no per?odo de 2002-2005.

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Terosiet, Medhi. "Conception d'un oscillateur robuste contrôlé numériquement pour l'horlogerie des SoCs." Phd thesis, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris VI, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00836916.

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L'intégration d'un plus grand nombre de fonctions sur des circuits intégrés plus rapides à chaque nouvelle génération. Malheureusement, elles ont rendu la tâche des concepteurs plus difficile, avec notamment la montée de la puissance consommée et des temps de propagation des signaux à travers la puce. La distribution de l'horloge, assurant le synchronisme des opérations du circuit, en est l'élément le plus symptomatique. La génération distribuée de l'horloge apparaît comme une alternative aux solutions classiques. Elle repose sur la mise en place d'un réseau de N oscillateurs géographiquement distribués sur l'ensemble de la puce. Chaque oscillateur génère localement une horloge pour la zone de la puce dans laquelle il se trouve. La phase d'une horloge est accordée sur celle de ces proches voisines. Ainsi, l'horloge n'a plus à parcourir de long chemin. Toutefois, les performances du circuit d'horloge sont liées, non pas à un, mais à N oscillateurs évoluant dans un environnement hostile (variations de l'alimentation, de la température, etc.). Aussi, les travaux de cette thèse portent sur la conception d'un oscillateur contrôlé numériquement. Plus précisément, notre problématique est : " Comment concevoir un DCO (Digitally Controlled Oscillator) robuste soumis à l'environnement hostile d'un SoC en technologie CMOS submicronique ? ". Pour répondre à cette question, nous proposons, dans un premier temps, la modélisation d'une topologie d'oscillateur contrôlé numériquement ; le but étant de déterminer sa pertinence quant à notre application d'horlogerie. Comme cette dernière est émergente, il n'y a à l'heure actuelle aucune théorie la caractérisant. A travers notre analyse, nous mettons en évidence ses faiblesses et la nécessité de lui adjoindre des circuits de protection. De ce fait, les performances du circuit d'horloge ne sont plus seulement dépendantes de l'oscillateur, mais aussi des dispositifs mis en place pour le protéger des agressions des circuits environnants. Ce constat a motivé le développement d'une alternative qui ne serait pas soumise aux mêmes contraintes. Nous proposons finalement un oscillateur contrôlé numériquement robuste à la fois contre les variations de l'alimentation et de la température. Cet oscillateur est conçu à partir de blocs analogiques connus et bien décrits par la littérature. Pour limiter l'influence de la tension d'alimentation et de la température à laquelle évolue l'oscillateur, nous tirons profit des effets de canal court propres aux technologies submicroniques.

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Aghaee, Ghaleshahi Nima. "Thermal Issues in Testing of Advanced Systems on Chip." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för datavetenskap, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-120798.

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Many cutting-edge computer and electronic products are powered by advanced Systems-on-Chip (SoC). Advanced SoCs encompass superb performance together with large number of functions. This is achieved by efficient integration of huge number of transistors. Such very large scale integration is enabled by a core-based design paradigm as well as deep-submicron and 3D-stacked-IC technologies. These technologies are susceptible to reliability and testing complications caused by thermal issues. Three crucial thermal issues related to temperature variations, temperature gradients, and temperature cycling are addressed in this thesis. Existing test scheduling techniques rely on temperature simulations to generate schedules that meet thermal constraints such as overheating prevention. The difference between the simulated temperatures and the actual temperatures is called temperature error. This error, for past technologies, is negligible. However, advanced SoCs experience large errors due to large process variations. Such large errors have costly consequences, such as overheating, and must be taken care of. This thesis presents an adaptive approach to generate test schedules that handle such temperature errors. Advanced SoCs manufactured as 3D stacked ICs experience large temperature gradients. Temperature gradients accelerate certain early-life defect mechanisms. These mechanisms can be artificially accelerated using gradient-based, burn-in like, operations so that the defects are detected before shipping. Moreover, temperature gradients exacerbate some delay-related defects. In order to detect such defects, testing must be performed when appropriate temperature-gradients are enforced. A schedule-based technique that enforces the temperature-gradients for burn-in like operations is proposed in this thesis. This technique is further developed to support testing for delay-related defects while appropriate gradients are enforced. The last thermal issue addressed by this thesis is related to temperature cycling. Temperature cycling test procedures are usually applied to safety-critical applications to detect cycling-related early-life failures. Such failures affect advanced SoCs, particularly through-silicon-via structures in 3D-stacked-ICs. An efficient schedule-based cycling-test technique that combines cycling acceleration with testing is proposed in this thesis. The proposed technique fits into existing 3D testing procedures and does not require temperature chambers. Therefore, the overall cycling acceleration and testing cost can be drastically reduced. All the proposed techniques have been implemented and evaluated with extensive experiments based on ITC’02 benchmarks as well as a number of 3D stacked ICs. Experiments show that the proposed techniques work effectively and reduce the costs, in particular the costs related to addressing thermal issues and early-life failures. We have also developed a fast temperature simulation technique based on a closed-form solution for the temperature equations. Experiments demonstrate that the proposed simulation technique reduces the schedule generation time by more than half.

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MEDARDONI, Simone. "Driving the Network-on-Chip Revolution to Remove the Interconnect Bottleneck in Nanoscale Multi-Processor Systems-on-Chip." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Ferrara, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11392/2389197.

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The sustained demand for faster, more powerful chips has been met by the availability of chip manufacturing processes allowing for the integration of increasing numbers of computation units onto a single die. The resulting outcome, especially in the embedded domain, has often been called SYSTEM-ON-CHIP (SoC) or MULTI-PROCESSOR SYSTEM-ON-CHIP (MP-SoC). MPSoC design brings to the foreground a large number of challenges, one of the most prominent of which is the design of the chip interconnection. With a number of on-chip blocks presently ranging in the tens, and quickly approaching the hundreds, the novel issue of how to best provide on-chip communication resources is clearly felt. NETWORKS-ON-CHIPS (NoCs) are the most comprehensive and scalable answer to this design concern. By bringing large-scale networking concepts to the on-chip domain, they guarantee a structured answer to present and future communication requirements. The point-to-point connection and packet switching paradigms they involve are also of great help in minimizing wiring overhead and physical routing issues. However, as with any technology of recent inception, NoC design is still an evolving discipline. Several main areas of interest require deep investigation for NoCs to become viable solutions: • The design of the NoC architecture needs to strike the best tradeoff among performance, features and the tight area and power constraints of the onchip domain. • Simulation and verification infrastructure must be put in place to explore, validate and optimize the NoC performance. • NoCs offer a huge design space, thanks to their extreme customizability in terms of topology and architectural parameters. Design tools are needed to prune this space and pick the best solutions. • Even more so given their global, distributed nature, it is essential to evaluate the physical implementation of NoCs to evaluate their suitability for next-generation designs and their area and power costs. This dissertation performs a design space exploration of network-on-chip architectures, in order to point-out the trade-offs associated with the design of each individual network building blocks and with the design of network topology overall. The design space exploration is preceded by a comparative analysis of state-of-the-art interconnect fabrics with themselves and with early networkon- chip prototypes. The ultimate objective is to point out the key advantages that NoC realizations provide with respect to state-of-the-art communication infrastructures and to point out the challenges that lie ahead in order to make this new interconnect technology come true. Among these latter, technologyrelated challenges are emerging that call for dedicated design techniques at all levels of the design hierarchy. In particular, leakage power dissipation, containment of process variations and of their effects. The achievement of the above objectives was enabled by means of a NoC simulation environment for cycleaccurate modelling and simulation and by means of a back-end facility for the study of NoC physical implementation effects. Overall, all the results provided by this work have been validated on actual silicon layout.

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Tambara, Lucas Antunes. "Caracterização de circuitos programáveis e sistemas em chip sob radiação." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/86477.

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Este trabalho consiste em um estudo acerca dos efeitos da radiação em circuitos programáveis e sistemas em chip, do inglês System-on-Chip (SoC), baseados em FPGAs (Field-Programmable Gate Array). Dentre os diversos efeitos que podem ensejar falhas nos circuitos integrados, destacam-se a ocorrência de Single Event Effects (SEEs), Efeitos Transitórios em tradução livre, e a Dose Total Ionizante, do inglês Total Ionizing Dose (TID). SEEs podem ocorrer em razão da incidência de nêutrons originários de interações de raios cósmicos com a atmosfera terrestre, íons pesados provenientes do espaço e prótons originários do Sol (vento solar) e dos cinturões de Van Allen. A Dose Total Ionizante diz respeito à exposição prolongada de um circuito integrado à radiação ionizante e cuja consequência é a alteração das características elétricas de partes do dispositivo em razão das cargas elétricas induzidas pela radiação e acumuladas nas interfaces dos semicondutores. Dentro desse contexto, este trabalho descreve em detalhes a caracterização do SoC-FPGA baseado em memória FLASH e de sinais mistos SmartFusion A2F200-FG484, da empresa Microsemi, quando exposto à radiação (SEEs e TID) através do uso da técnica de Redundância Diversificada visando a detecção de erros. Também, uma arquitetura que utiliza um esquema baseado em Redundância Modular Tripla e Diversificada é testada através da sua implementação no FPGA baseado em memória SRAM da família Spartan-6, modelo LX45, da empresa Xilinx, visando a detecção e correção de erros causados pela radiação (SEEs). Os resultados obtidos mostram que os diversos blocos funcionais que compõe SoC SmartFusion apresentam diferentes níveis de tolerância à radiação e que o uso das técnicas de Redundância Modular Tripla e Redundância Diversificada em conjunto mostrou-se extremamente eficiente no que se refere a tolerância a SEEs.
This work consists in a study about the radiation effects in programmable circuits and System-on-Chips (SoCs) based on FPGAs (Field-Programmable Gate Arrays). Single Event Effects (SEEs) and Total Ionizing Dose (TID) are the two main effects caused by the radiation incidence, and both can imply in the occurrence of failures in integrated circuits. SEEs are due to the incidence of neutrons derived from the interaction of the cosmic rays with the terrestrial atmosphere, as well as heavy ions coming from the space and protons provided from the solar wind and the Van Allen belts. Total Ionizing Dose regards the prolonged exposure of an integrated circuit to the ionizing radiation, which deviates the standard electrical characteristics of the device due to radiation-induced electrical charges accumulated in the semiconductors’ interfaces. In this context, this work aims to describe in details the characterization of Microsemi’s mixed-signal SoC-FPGA SmartFusion A2F200-FG484 when exposed to radiation (SEEs and TID), using a Diverse Redundancy approach for error detection. As well, an architecture using a Diversified Triple Modular Redundancy scheme was tested (SEEs) through its implementation in a Xilinx’s Spartan-6 LX45 FPGA, aiming error detection and correction. The results obtained show that several functional blocks from SmartFusion have different radiation tolerance levels and that the use of the Triple Modular Redundancy together with Diversified Redundancy proved to be extremely efficient in terms of SEEs tolerance.

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Cota, Erika Fernandes. "Reuse-based test planning for core-based systems-on-chip." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/4180.

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O projeto de sistemas eletrônicos atuais segue o paradigma do reuso de componentes de hardware. Este paradigma reduz a complexidade do projeto de um chip, mas cria novos desafios para o projetista do sistema em relação ao teste do produto final. O acesso aos núcleos profundamente embutidos no sistema, a integração dos diversos métodos de teste e a otimização dos diversos fatores de custo do sistema são alguns dos problemas que precisam ser resolvidos durante o planejamento do teste de produção do novo circuito. Neste contexto, esta tese propõe duas abordagens para o planejamento de teste de sistemas integrados. As abordagens propostas têm como principal objetivo a redução dos custos de teste através do reuso dos recursos de hardware disponíveis no sistema e da integração do planejamento de teste no fluxo de projeto do circuito. A primeira abordagem considera os sistemas cujos componentes se comunicam através de conexões dedicadas ou barramentos funcionais. O método proposto consiste na definição de um mecanismo de acesso aos componentes do circuito e de um algoritmo para exploração do espaço de projeto. O mecanismo de acesso prevê o reuso das conexões funcionais, o uso de barramentos de teste locais, núcleos transparentes e outros modos de passagem do sinal de teste. O algoritmo de escalonamento de teste é definido juntamente com o mecanismo de acesso, de forma que diferentes combinações de custos sejam exploradas. Além disso, restrições de consumo de potência do sistema podem ser consideradas durante o escalonamento dos testes. Os resultados experimentais apresentados para este método mostram claramente a variedade de soluções que podem ser exploradas e a efi- ciência desta abordagem na otimização do teste de um sistema complexo. A segunda abordagem de planejamento de teste propõe o reuso de redes em-chip como mecanismo de acesso aos componentes dos sistemas construídos sobre esta plataforma de comunicação. Um algoritmo de escalonamento de teste que considera as restrições de potência da aplicação é apresentado e a estratégia de teste é avaliada para diferentes configurações do sistema. Os resultados experimentais mostram que a capacidade de paralelização da rede em-chip pode ser explorada para reduzir o tempo de teste do sistema, enquanto os custos de área e pinos de teste são drasticamente minimizados. Neste manuscrito, os principais problemas relacionados ao teste dos sistemas integrados baseados em componentes virtuais são identificados e as soluções já apresentadas na literatura são discutidas. Em seguida, os problemas tratados por este traballho são listados e as abordagens propostas são detalhadas. Ambas as técnicas são validadas através dos sistemas disponíveis no ITC’02 SoC Test Benchmarks. As técnicas propostas são ainda comparadas com outras abordagens de teste apresentadas recentemente. Esta comparação confirma a eficácia dos métodos desenvolvidos nesta tese.
Electronic applications are currently developed under the reuse-based paradigm. This design methodology presents several advantages for the reduction of the design complexity, but brings new challenges for the test of the final circuit. The access to embedded cores, the integration of several test methods, and the optimization of the several cost factors are just a few of the several problems that need to be tackled during test planning. Within this context, this thesis proposes two test planning approaches that aim at reducing the test costs of a core-based system by means of hardware reuse and integration of the test planning into the design flow. The first approach considers systems whose cores are connected directly or through a functional bus. The test planning method consists of a comprehensive model that includes the definition of a multi-mode access mechanism inside the chip and a search algorithm for the exploration of the design space. The access mechanism model considers the reuse of functional connections as well as partial test buses, cores transparency, and other bypass modes. The test schedule is defined in conjunction with the access mechanism so that good trade-offs among the costs of pins, area, and test time can be sought. Furthermore, system power constraints are also considered. This expansion of concerns makes it possible an efficient, yet fine-grained search, in the huge design space of a reuse-based environment. Experimental results clearly show the variety of trade-offs that can be explored using the proposed model, and its effectiveness on optimizing the system test plan. Networks-on-chip are likely to become the main communication platform of systemson- chip. Thus, the second approach presented in this work proposes the reuse of the on-chip network for the test of the cores embedded into the systems that use this communication platform. A power-aware test scheduling algorithm aiming at exploiting the network characteristics to minimize the system test time is presented. The reuse strategy is evaluated considering a number of system configurations, such as different positions of the cores in the network, power consumption constraints and number of interfaces with the tester. Experimental results show that the parallelization capability of the network can be exploited to reduce the system test time, whereas area and pin overhead are strongly minimized. In this manuscript, the main problems of the test of core-based systems are firstly identified and the current solutions are discussed. The problems being tackled by this thesis are then listed and the test planning approaches are detailed. Both test planning techniques are validated for the recently released ITC’02 SoC Test Benchmarks, and further compared to other test planning methods of the literature. This comparison confirms the efficiency of the proposed methods.

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Shalan, Mohamed A. "Dynamic memory management for embedded real-time multiprocessor system-on-a-chip." Diss., Available online, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2003:, 2003. http://etd.gatech.edu/theses/available/etd-11252003-131621/unrestricted/shalanmohameda200312.pdf.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004.
Vincent Mooney, Committee Chair; John Barry, Committee Member; James Hamblen, Committee Member; Karsten Schwan, Committee Member; Linda Wills, Committee Member. Includes bibliography.

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Akgul, Bilge Ebru Saglam. "The System-on-a-Chip Lock Cache." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/5253.

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In this dissertation, we implement efficient lock-based synchronization by a novel, high performance, simple and scalable hardware technique and associated software for a target shared-memory multiprocessor System-on-a-Chip (SoC). The custom hardware part of our solution is provided in the form of an intellectual property (IP) hardware unit which we call the SoC Lock Cache (SoCLC). SoCLC provides effective lock hand-off by reducing on-chip memory traffic and improving performance in terms of lock latency, lock delay and bandwidth consumption. The proposed solution is independent from the memory hierarchy, cache protocol and the processor architectures used in the SoC, which enables easily applicable implementations of the SoCLC (e.g., as a reconfigurable or partially/fully custom logic), and which distinguishes SoCLC from previous approaches. Furthermore, the SoCLC mechanism has been extended to support priority inheritance with an immediate priority ceiling protocol (IPCP) implemented in hardware, which enhances the hard real-time performance of the system. Our experimental results in a four-processor SoC indicate that SoCLC can achieve up to 37% overall speedup over spin-lock and up to 48% overall speedup over MCS for a microbenchmark with false sharing. The priority inheritance implemented as part of the SoCLC hardware, on the other hand, achieves 1.43X speedup in overall execution time of a robot application when compared to the priority inheritance implementation under the Atalanta real-time operating system. Furthermore, it has been shown that with the IPCP mechanism integrated into the SoCLC, all of the tasks of the robot application could meet their deadlines (e.g., a high priority task with 250us worst case response time could complete its execution in 93us with SoCLC, however the same task missed its deadline by completing its execution in 283us without SoCLC). Therefore, with IPCP support, our solution can provide better real-time guarantees for real-time systems. To automate SoCLC design, we have also developed an SoCLC-generator tool, PARLAK, that generates user specified configurations of a custom SoCLC. We used PARLAK to generate SoCLCs from a version for two processors with 32 lock variables occupying 2,520 gates up to a version for fourteen processors with 256 lock variables occupying 78,240 gates.

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Ljungberg, Jan. "SYSTEM ON CHIP : Fördelar i konstruktion med system on chip i förhållande till fristående FPGA och processor." Thesis, Tekniska Högskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, JTH, Data- och elektroteknik, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-28263.

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In this exam project the investigation has been done to determine, which profits that can be made by switching an internal bus between two chips, one FPGA and a processor, to an internal bus implemented on only one chip, System on Chip. The work is based on measurements made in real time in Xilinx’s development tools on different buses, AXI4 and AXI4-Light connected to AXI3. The port that is used is FPGA’s own GP-port. Besides measuring the time of transactions also physical aspects have been investigated in this project: space, costs and time. Based on those criteria a comparison to the original construction was made to determine which benefits that can be achieved. The work has shown a number of results that are in comparison with the original construction. The System on Chip has turned out to be a better solution in most cases. When using the AXI4-Light-bus the benefits were not as obvious. Cosmic radiation, temperature or humidity are beyond the scope of this investigation. In the work the hypothetic deductive method has been used to prove that the System on Chip is faster than the original design. In this method three statements must be set up against each other; one statement that ought to be true, one statement that is a contradiction and a conclusion of what is proved. The pre-study pointed out that the System on Chip is a faster solution than the original construction. The method is useful since it proves that the pre-study is comparable to the measured results.
I detta examensarbete har undersökningar gjorts för att fastställa vilka vinster som går att göra genom att byta en internbuss mellan två chip, en FPGA och en processor, mot en intern buss implementerat på ett enda chip, System on Chip. Arbetet bygger på mätningar gjorda i realtid i Xilinx utvecklingsverktyg på olika bussar, AXI4 och AXI4‑Lite som är kopplade internt mot AXI3. Den port som används är FPGAs egen GP‑port. Förutom att mäta överföringshastigheterna, har även fysiska aspekter som utrymme, kostnader och utvecklingstid undersökts. Utifrån dessa kriterier har en jämförelse gjorts med den befintliga konstruktionen för att fastställa vilka vinster som går att uppnå. Arbetet har resulterat i ett antal resultat som är ställda mot de förutsättningar som fanns i den ursprungliga lösningen. I de flesta fall visar resultatet att ett System on Chip är en bättre lösning. De fall som var tveksamma var vid viss typ av överföring med AXI4‑Lite bussen. I arbetet har inte undersökning av kosmisk strålning, temperatur eller luftfuktighet betraktas. I arbetet med att försöka att bevisa att ett System on Chip är snabbare än den ursprungliga uppsättningen har utvecklingsmetoden hypotetisk deduktiv använts. Denna metod bygger på att man från början sätter upp ett påstående, som man förutsätter är sant, följt av en konjunktion, som inte får inträffa, för att slutligen dra en slutsats, som konstaterar fakta. Eftersom fakta som lästes in i början av arbetet pekade på att ett System on Chip var en snabbare och billigare lösning kändes metoden användbar. Under arbetets gång har det visat sig vara en bra metod som också ger ett resultat där sannolikheten för att det är en snabbare lösning ökar. Däremot säger inte metoden att det är helt säkert att den i alla situationer är bättre, vilket kan ändras om man använder andra förutsättningar eller tar med andra aspekter.

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Montcalm, Michael R. "Scheduling Algorithms for Instruction Set Extended Symmetrical Homogeneous Multiprocessor Systems-on-Chip." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/20056.

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Embedded system designers face multiple challenges in fulfilling the runtime requirements of programs. Effective scheduling of programs is required to extract as much parallelism as possible. These scheduling algorithms must also improve speedup after instruction-set extensions have occurred. Scheduling of dynamic code at run time is made more difficult when the static components of the program are scheduled inefficiently. This research aims to optimize a program’s static code at compile time. This is achieved with four algorithms designed to schedule code at the task and instruction level. Additionally, the algorithms improve scheduling using instruction set extended code on symmetrical homogeneous multiprocessor systems. Using these algorithms, we achieve speedups up to 3.86X over sequential execution for a 4-issue 2-processor system, and show better performance than recent heuristic techniques for small programs. Finally, the algorithms generate speedup values for a 64-point FFT that are similar to the test runs.

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Kunz, Leonardo. "Memória transacional em hardware para sistemas embarcados multiprocessados conectados por redes-em-chip." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/28739.

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A Memória Transacional (TM) surgiu nos últimos anos como uma nova solução para sincronização em sistemas multiprocessados de memória compartilhada, permitindo explorar melhor o paralelismo das aplicações ao evitar limitações inerentes ao mecanismo de locks. Neste modelo, o programador define regiões de código que devem executar de forma atômica. O sistema tenta executá-las de forma concorrente, e, em caso de conflito nos acessos à memória, toma as medidas necessárias para preservar a atomicidade e isolamento das transações, na maioria das vezes abortando e reexecutando uma das transações. Um dos modelos mais aceitos de memória transacional em hardware é o LogTM, implementado neste trabalho em um MPSoC embarcado que utiliza uma NoC para interconexão. Os experimentos fazem uma comparação desta implementação com locks, levando-se em consideração performance e energia do sistema. Além disso, este trabalho mostra que o tempo que uma transação espera para reiniciar sua execução após ter abortado (chamado de backoff delay on abort) tem impactos significativos na performance e energia. Uma análise deste impacto é feita utilizando-se de três políticas de backoff. Um mecanismo baseado em um handshake entre transações, chamado Abort handshake, é proposto como solução para o problema. Os resultados dos experimentos são dependentes da aplicação e configuração do sistema e indicam ganhos da TM na maioria dos casos em relação ao mecanismo de locks. Houve redução de até 30% no tempo de execução e de até 32% na energia de aplicações de baixa demanda de sincronização. Em um segundo momento, é feita uma análise do backoff delay on abort na performance e energia de aplicações utilizando três políticas de backoff em comparação com o mecanismo Abort handshake. Os resultados mostram que o mecanismo proposto apresenta redução de até 20% no tempo de execução e de até 53% na energia comparado à melhor política de backoff dentre as analisadas. Para aplicações com alta demanda de sincronização, a TM mostra redução no tempo de execução de até 63% e redução de energia de até 71% em comparação com o mecanismo de locks.
Transactional Memory (TM) has emerged in the last years as a new solution for synchronization on shared memory multiprocessor systems, allowing a better exploration of the parallelism of the applications by avoiding inherent limitations of the lock mechanism. In this model, the programmer defines regions of code, called transactions, to execute atomically. The system tries to execute transactions concurrently, but in case of conflict on memory accesses, it takes the appropriate measures to preserve the atomicity and isolation, usually aborting and re-executing one of the transactions. One of the most accepted hardware transactional memory model is LogTM, implemented in this work in an embedded MPSoC that uses an NoC as interconnection mechanism. The experiments compare this implementation with locks, considering performance and energy. Furthermore, this work shows that the time a transaction waits to restart after abort (called backoff delay on abort) has significant impact on performance and energy. An analysis of this impact is done using three backoff policies. A novel mechanism based on handshake of transactions, called Abort handshake, is proposed as a solution to this issue. The results of the experiments depends on application and system configuration and show TM benefits in most cases in comparison to the locks mechanism, reaching reduction on the execution time up to 30% and reduction on the energy consumption up to 32% on low contention workloads. After that, an analysis of the backoff delay on abort on the performance and energy is presented, comparing to the Abort handshake mechanism. The proposed mechanism shows reduction of up to 20% on the execution time and up to 53% on the energy, when compared to the best backoff policy. For applications with a high degree of synchronization, TM shows reduction on the execution time up to 63% and energy savings up to 71% compared to locks.

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Klingler, Randall S. "Compilation and Generation of Multi-Processor on a Chip Real-Time Embedded Systems." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2007. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd1941.pdf.

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Nguyen, Thi Yen Mai. "Ferrite-based micro-inductors for power systems on chip : from material elaboration to inductor optimisation." Toulouse 3, 2014. http://thesesups.ups-tlse.fr/2564/.

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Les composants passifs intégrés sont des éléments clés pour les futures alimentations sur puce, compactes et présentant des performances améliorées: haut rendement et forte densité de puissance. L'objectif de ce travail de thèse est d'étudier les matériaux et la technologie pour réaliser de bobines à base de ferrite, intégrées sur silicium, avec des faibles empreintes (<4 mm ²) et de faible épaisseur (<250 µm). Ces bobines, dédiées à la conversion de puissance (˜ 1 W) doivent présenter une forte inductance spécifique et un facteur de qualité élevé dans la gamme de fréquence visée (5-10 MHz). Des ferrites de NiZn ont été sélectionnées comme matériaux magnétiques pour le noyau des bobines en raison de leur forte résistivité et de leur perméabilité stable dans la gamme de fréquence visée. Deux techniques sont développées pour les noyaux de ferrite: la sérigraphie d'une poudre synthétisée au laboratoire et la découpe automatique de films de ferrite commerciaux, suivi dans chaque cas du frittage et le placement sur les conducteurs pour former une bobine rectangulaire. Des bobines tests ont été réalisées dans un premier temps afin que la caractérisation puisse être effectuée : les propriétés magnétiques du noyau de ferrite notamment les pertes volumiques dans le noyau sont ainsi extraites. L'équation de Steinmetz a permis de corréler les courbes de pertes mesurées avec des expressions analytiques en fonction de la fréquence et de l'induction. La deuxième phase de la thèse est l'optimisation de la conception de la micro-bobine à base de ferrite, en tenant compte des pertes attendues. L'algorithme générique est utilisé pour optimiser les dimensions de la bobine avec pour objectif ; la minimisation des pertes et l'obtention de la valeur d'inductance spécifique souhaitée, sous faible polarisation en courant. La méthode des éléments finis pour le magnétisme FEMM est utilisée pour modéliser le comportement électromagnétique du composant. La deuxième série de prototypes a été réalisée afin de valider la méthode d'optimisation. En perspective, les procédés de photolithographie de résine épaisse et le dépôt électrolytique sont en cours de développement pour réaliser les enroulements de cuivre épais autour des noyaux de ferrite optimisés et ainsi former le composant complet
On-chip inductors are key passive elements for future power supplies on chip (PwrSoC), which are expected to be compact and show enhanced performance: high efficiency and high power density. The objective of this thesis work is to study the material and technology to realize small size (<4 mm²) and low profile (< 250 µm) ferrite-based on-chip inductor. This component is dedicated to low power conversion (˜ 1 W) and should provide high inductance density and high quality factor at medium frequency range (5-10 MHz). Fully sintered NiZn ferrites are selected as soft magnetic materials for the inductor core because of their high resistivity and moderate permeability stable in the frequencies range of interest. Two techniques are developed for the ferrite cores: screen printing of in-house made ferrite powder and cutting of commercial ferrite films, followed in each case by sintering and pick-and place assembling to form the rectangular toroid inductor. Test inductors were realized first so that the characterization could be carried out to study the magnetic properties of the ferrite core and the volumetric core losses. The core losses were fit from the measured curve with Steinmetz equation to obtain analytical expressions of losses versus frequency and induction. The second phase of the thesis is the design optimization for the on-chip ferrite based inductor, taking into account the expected losses. Genetic algorithm is employed to optimize the inductor design with the objective function as minimum losses and satisfying the specification on the inductance values under weak current-bias condition. Finite element method for magnetics FEMM is used as a tool to calculate inductance and losses. The second run of prototypes was done to validate the optimization method. In perspective, processes of thick-photoresist photolithography and electroplating are being developed to realize the completed thick copper windings surrounding ferrite cores

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Yang, Xiaokun. "A High Performance Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Encrypted On-Chip Bus Architecture for Internet-of-Things (IoT) System-on-Chips (SoC)." FIU Digital Commons, 2016. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2477.

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With industry expectations of billions of Internet-connected things, commonly referred to as the IoT, we see a growing demand for high-performance on-chip bus architectures with the following attributes: small scale, low energy, high security, and highly configurable structures for integration, verification, and performance estimation. Our research thus mainly focuses on addressing these key problems and finding the balance among all these requirements that often work against each other. First of all, we proposed a low-cost and low-power System-on-Chips (SoCs) architecture (IBUS) that can frame data transfers differently. The IBUS protocol provides two novel transfer modes – the block and state modes, and is also backward compatible with the conventional linear mode. In order to evaluate the bus performance automatically and accurately, we also proposed an evaluation methodology based on the standard circuit design flow. Experimental results show that the IBUS based design uses the least hardware resource and reduces energy consumption to a half of an AMBA Advanced High-Performance Bus (AHB) and Advanced eXensible Interface (AXI). Additionally, the valid bandwidth of the IBUS based design is 2.3 and 1.6 times, respectively, compared with the AHB and AXI based implementations. As IoT advances, privacy and security issues become top tier concerns in addition to the high performance requirement of embedded chips. To leverage limited resources for tiny size chips and overhead cost for complex security mechanisms, we further proposed an advanced IBUS architecture to provide a structural support for the block-based AES algorithm. Our results show that the IBUS based AES-encrypted design costs less in terms of hardware resource and dynamic energy (60.2%), and achieves higher throughput (x1.6) compared with AXI. Effectively dealing with the automation in design and verification for mixed-signal integrated circuits is a critical problem, particularly when the bus architecture is new. Therefore, we further proposed a configurable and synthesizable IBUS design methodology. The flexible structure, together with bus wrappers, direct memory access (DMA), AES engine, memory controller, several mixed-signal verification intellectual properties (VIPs), and bus performance models (BPMs), forms the basic for integrated circuit design, allowing engineers to integrate application-specific modules and other peripherals to create complex SoCs.

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Niu, Xinwei. "System-on-a-Chip (SoC) based Hardware Acceleration in Register Transfer Level (RTL) Design." FIU Digital Commons, 2012. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/888.

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Today, modern System-on-a-Chip (SoC) systems have grown rapidly due to the increased processing power, while maintaining the size of the hardware circuit. The number of transistors on a chip continues to increase, but current SoC designs may not be able to exploit the potential performance, especially with energy consumption and chip area becoming two major concerns. Traditional SoC designs usually separate software and hardware. Thus, the process of improving the system performance is a complicated task for both software and hardware designers. The aim of this research is to develop hardware acceleration workflow for software applications. Thus, system performance can be improved with constraints of energy consumption and on-chip resource costs. The characteristics of software applications can be identified by using profiling tools. Hardware acceleration can have significant performance improvement for highly mathematical calculations or repeated functions. The performance of SoC systems can then be improved, if the hardware acceleration method is used to accelerate the element that incurs performance overheads. The concepts mentioned in this study can be easily applied to a variety of sophisticated software applications. The contributions of SoC-based hardware acceleration in the hardware-software co-design platform include the following: (1) Software profiling methods are applied to H.264 Coder-Decoder (CODEC) core. The hotspot function of aimed application is identified by using critical attributes such as cycles per loop, loop rounds, etc. (2) Hardware acceleration method based on Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) is used to resolve system bottlenecks and improve system performance. The identified hotspot function is then converted to a hardware accelerator and mapped onto the hardware platform. Two types of hardware acceleration methods – central bus design and co-processor design, are implemented for comparison in the proposed architecture. (3) System specifications, such as performance, energy consumption, and resource costs, are measured and analyzed. The trade-off of these three factors is compared and balanced. Different hardware accelerators are implemented and evaluated based on system requirements. 4) The system verification platform is designed based on Integrated Circuit (IC) workflow. Hardware optimization techniques are used for higher performance and less resource costs. Experimental results show that the proposed hardware acceleration workflow for software applications is an efficient technique. The system can reach 2.8X performance improvements and save 31.84% energy consumption by applying the Bus-IP design. The Co-processor design can have 7.9X performance and save 75.85% energy consumption.

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Fabris, Eric Ericson. "A Modular and digitally programmable interface based on band-pass sigma-delta modulator for mixed-signal systems-on-chip." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/6226.

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O foco desta tese é a descrição e validação de uma arquitetura de interface para processamento de sinais analógicos para SOC de sinais mistos. A abordagem proposta apresenta a possibilidade de cobertura de uma larga faixa de freqüências com performance praticamente constante associada a uma estrutura digital de programação. A premissa é usar uma célula analógica fixa e promover a configuração da aplicação no domínio digital, levando a uma arquitetura de interface de sinais mistos. O emprego de um bloco analógico fixo busca eliminar a perda inerente de performance decorrente da própria estrutura de programação em circuitos reconfiguráveis analógicos. A emprego da programação no domínio digital abre espaço para usos da vasta gama de ferramentas disponíveis para o projeto em alto nível de abstração, simulação e síntese automática para implementar a aplicação alvo com excelente predição do desempenho final. A abordagem proposta baseia-se no conceito de translação em freqüência (mixagem) do sinal de entrada seguida pela sua conversão para o domínio ΣΔ. A estrutura de processamento possibilita o emprego de um bloco analógico constante, e também, um processamento uniforme de sinais de entrada indo de DC até altas freqüências. A aplicação é configurada no domínio ΣΔ onde a performance pode ser predita de acordo com as especificações alvo. Objetivando a exploração do espaço de projeto foi desenvolvido o modelo de performance teórico e de simulação. Os modelos desenvolvidos auxiliam no também no projeto físico da interface proposta. Objetivando, tanto a validação dos modelos propostos, bem como o desenvolvimento de aplicações, foram construídos dois protótipos. São apresentados os usos da interface como um ADC paramétrico multi-banda e como um multiplicador e um somador de sinais analógicos. É proposta também uma arquitetura para uma interface analógica multi-canal. Os resultados experimentais empregados para a caracterização da interface proposta suportam as vantagens da mesma.
The focus of this thesis is to discuss the development and modeling of an interface architecture to be employed for interfacing analog signals in mixed-signal SOC. We claim that the approach that is going to be presented is able to achieve wide frequency range, and covers a large range of applications with constant performance, allied to digital configuration compatibility. Our primary assumptions are to use a fixed analog block and to promote application configurability in the digital domain, which leads to a mixed-signal interface. The use of a fixed analog block avoids the performance loss common to configurable analog blocks. The usage of configurability on the digital domain makes possible the use of all existing tools for high level design, simulation and synthesis to implement the target application, with very good performance prediction. The proposed approach utilizes the concept of frequency translation (mixing) of the input signal followed by its conversion to the ΣΔ domain, which makes possible the use of a fairly constant analog block, and also, a uniform treatment of input signal from DC to high frequencies. The programmability is performed in the ΣΔ digital domain where performance can be closely achieved according to application specification. The interface performance theoretical and simulation model are developed for design space exploration and for physical design support. Two prototypes are built and characterized to validate the proposed model and to implement some application examples. The usage of this interface as a multi-band parametric ADC and as a two channels analog multiplier and adder are shown. The multi-channel analog interface architecture is also presented. The characterization measurements support the main advantages of the approach proposed.

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Arpnikanondt, Chonlameth. "A Platform-Centric UML-/XML-Enhanced HW/SW Codesign Method for the Development of SoC Systems." Diss., Available online, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004, 2004. http://etd.gatech.edu/theses/available/etd-04112004-153455/unrestricted/arpnikanondt%5Fchonlameth%5F200405%5Fphd.pdf.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004.
Madisetti, Vijay, Committee Chair ; Mersereau, Russell, Committee Member ; Yalamanchili, Sudhakar, Committee Member. Includes bibliographical references.

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Schneider, William. "Avalia??o sistem?tica de redes intrachip." Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica do Rio Grande do Sul, 2014. http://tede2.pucrs.br/tede2/handle/tede/8202.

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The increase in the number of cores available in Systems on a Chip has enabled the design of circuits with increasingly aggressive specifications. Efficient interconnection architectures such as intrachip networks are critical to the viability of these projects. However, measuring and comparing performanceof these networks for a given system is still a challenging task, which results from: (i) the complexity imposed by the abundance of available options in the design space of these networks; (ii) the current non-adoption of a unique evaluation platform to compare different networks proposals; (iii) the fact that the network traffic has a greater influence on the performance of such networks than any other design characteristic. This work has as main strategic goal the evaluation and comparison of different intrachip network architectures through the use of a unified evaluation platform. It adopts Nocbench, a recent platform, already validated in some contexts and proposed as a standard for the evaluation of intrachip networks. The employed evaluation method is based on the simulation of networks and uses as input traffic and computation models described in the form of traces, both extracted from real application. The main contributions of this work reside in: (i) the proposal of several enhancements to the chosen platform; (ii) the development of modules added to integrate the networks Hermes HS,Hermes OO, Hermes TB, Hermes VC, and YeaH from the author?s research group to the platform; (iii) the enhancement of the platform performance evaluation process, through the inclusion of metrics usually employed to compare intrachip networks, including: latency, throughput and jitter. A set of experiments validates the contributions and demonstrate the use the Nocbench platform as a useful tool in the comparison of intrachip networks of diverse origins.
O aumento no n?mero de n?cleos presentes em Sistemas Integrados em Chip tem proporcionado o projeto de circuitos com especifica??es cada vez mais agressivas. Arquiteturas de interconex?o eficientes tais como as redes intrachip s?o fundamentais para a viabilidade destes projetos. Entretanto, medir e comparar o desempenho destas redesainda ? uma tarefa desafiadora, resultado: (i) da complexidade imposta pela abund?ncia de op??es dispon?veis no espa?o de projeto destas redes; (ii) da atual n?o ado??o de uma mesma plataforma de avalia??o para a compara??o de diferentes propostas de redes; (iii) e do fato de o tr?fego de rede exercer uma influ?ncia muito maior do que qualquer caracter?stica de projeto no desempenho destas. Este trabalho tem como principal objetivo estrat?gico a avalia??o e compara??o de diferentes arquiteturas de redes intrachip atrav?s de uma plataforma de avalia??o unificada. Adota-se Nocbench, uma plataforma recente, j? validada em alguns contextos e proposta como um padr?o para a avalia??o de redes intrachip. O m?todo de avalia??o empregado baseia-se na simula??o de redes e utiliza como entrada modelos de tr?fego e de computa??o descritos sob a forma de traces, ambos extra?dos de aplica??es reais. As principais contribui??es do trabalho residem: (i) na proposta de diversas melhorias para a plataforma escolhida; (ii) no desenvolvimento de m?dulos para a integra??o das redes Hermes HS, Hermes OO, Hermes TB, Hermes VC e YeaHdo grupo de pesquisa do Autor ? plataforma em quest?o; (iii) no aprimoramento do processo de avalia??o de desempenho da plataforma, atrav?s da inclus?o de m?tricas comumente utilizadas para comparar redes intrachip, incluindo: lat?ncia, vaz?oe jitter. Um conjunto de experimentos valida as contribui??es e demonstra o uso da plataforma Nocbench como uma ferramenta ?til na compara??o de redes intrachip de origens diversas.

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Samii, Soheil. "Power Modeling and Scheduling of Tests for Core-based System Chips." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Computer and Information Science, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-2863.

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The technology today makes it possible to integrate a complete system on a single chip, called "System-on-Chip'' (SOC). Nowadays SOC designers use previously designed hardware modules, called cores, together with their user defined logic (UDL), to form a complete system on a single chip. The manufacturing process may result in defect chips, for instance due to the base material, and therefore testing chips after production is important in order to ensure fault-free chips.

The testing time for a chip will affect its final cost. Thus it is important to minimize the testing time for each chip. For core-based SOCs this can be done by testing several cores at the same time, instead of testing the cores sequentially. However, this will result in a higher activity in the chip, hence higher power consumption. Due to several factors in the manufacturing process there are limitations of the power consumption for a chip. Therefore, the power limitations should be carefully considered when planning the testing of a chip. Otherwise it can be damaged during test, due to overheating. This leads to the problem of minimizing testing time under such power constraints.

In this thesis we discuss test power modeling and its application to SOC testing. We present previous work in this area and conclude that current power modeling techniques in SOC testing are rather pessimistic. We therefore propose a more accurate power model that is based on the analysis of the test data. Furthermore, we present techniques for test pattern reordering, with the objective of partitioning the test power consumption into low parts and high parts.

The power model is included in a tool for SOC test architecture design and test scheduling, where the scheduling heuristic is designed for SOCs with fixed- width test bus architectures. Several experiments have been conducted in order to evaluate the proposed approaches. The results show that, by using the presented power modeling techniques in test scheduling algorithms, we will get lower testing times and thus lower test cost.

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Gupta, Vishal. "An accurate, trimless, high PSRR, low-voltage, CMOS bandgap reference IC." Diss., Available online, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007, 2007. http://etd.gatech.edu/theses/available/etd-07052007-073154/.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008.
Ayazi, Farrokh, Committee Member ; Rincon-Mora, Gabriel, Committee Chair ; Bhatti, Pamela, Committee Member ; Leach, W. Marshall, Committee Member ; Morley, Thomas, Committee Member.

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Andrade, Junior Antonio de Quadros. "Planejamento de teste de sistemas baseados em núcleos de hardware de sinal misto usando bist." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/8296.

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Atualmente, os sistemas eletrônicos integrados seguem o paradigma do projeto baseado em núcleos de hardware. Além de núcleos digitais, tais sistemas podem incluir núcleos analógicos, que, neste caso, dominam os requisitos de teste, como tempo de teste e número adicional de pinos. Consequentemente, há um aumento do custo total de manufatura do dispositivo. O presente trabalho propõe o uso de técnicas de autoteste integrado (BIST) analógico, baseado no reuso de núcleos digitais presentes no mesmo sistema, com objetivo de reduzir os custos relativos ao teste do sistema. Além disso, uma estratégia satisfatória requer um adequado planejamento de teste, de forma a melhor explorar as possibilidades de teste simultâneo de mais de um núcleo e o escalonamento do teste de cada um destes, diminuindo custos associados ao teste. Adaptando uma ferramenta computacional voltada ao planejamento de sistemas compostos exclusivamente de núcleos digitais para o universo dos sistemas mistos e considerando a possibilidade do uso de BIST, pode-se avaliar o impacto da estratégia proposta em termos de tempo de teste, acréscimo de área em virtude das estruturas de teste e pinos extras. Restrições de dissipação de potência também são consideradas. Para validação das hipóteses levantadas, sistemas mistos foram descritos a partir de benchmarks industriais e acadêmicos puramente digitais, através da inclusão de núcleos analógicos. Os resultados obtidos através de simulações com a ferramenta apontam para uma redução no tempo de teste e otimização de custos de pinos e área, além da redução no custo de equipamentos automatizados de teste (ATE), para o caso de teste de produção. Com isso, uma redução no custo total do procedimento de teste de tais sistemas pode ser alcançada.
Currently, integrated electronic systems follow the core-based design paradigm. Such systems include not only digital circuits as internal blocks, but also analog circuits, which dominate test resources, such as testing time, extra pins and overhead area, thus increasing the total manufacture cost of these devices. The present work proposes the application of analog Built-in Self Test (BIST) techniques based on the reuse of available digital cores within the same integrated system, aiming to reduce the test costs of the analog cores. Moreover, a satisfactory strategy requires an adequate test planning, so that the design space is better explored. By adapting a software tool, which was originally designed for test planning of exclusively digital SOC, to consider analog cores, as well as the possibility of BIST, one can evaluate the impact of the proposed strategy in terms of test application time, area overhead due to test structures added and extra pins. Power dissipation restrictions may also be taken into account. In order to validate the hypotheses considered, mixed-signal systems are described from digital industrial and academic benchmarks, just adding analog cores. Through simulation with the adapted tool, the obtained results point to a decrease in the system test time, as well as a reduction in the cost of Automatic Test Equipment (ATE), in case of a production test. Thus, a reduction in the overall cost of the test procedure for such devices can be achieved.

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Romenska, Yuliia. "Composants abstraits pour la vérification fonctionnelle des systèmes sur puce." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017GREAM019/document.

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Les travaux présentés dans cette thèse portent sur la modélisation, la spécification et la vérification des modèlesdes Systèmes sur Puce (SoCs) au niveau d’abstraction transactionnel et à un niveau d’abstraction plus élevé.Les SoCs sont hétérogènes: ils comprennent des composants matériels et des processeurs pour réaliser le logicielincorporé, qui est en lien direct avec du matériel. La modélisation transactionnelle (TLM) basée sur SystemCa été très fructueuse à fournir des modèles exécutables des SoCs à un haut niveau d’abstraction, aussi appelésprototypes virtuels (VPs). Ces modèles peuvent être utilisés plus tôt dans le cycle de développement des logiciels,et la validation des matériels réels. La vérification basée sur assertions (ABV) permet de vérifier les propriétés tôtdans le cycle de conception de façon à trouver les défauts et faire gagner du temps et de l’effort nécessaires pourla correction de ces défauts. Les modèles TL peuvent être sur-contraints, c’est-à-dire qu’ils ne presentent pastous les comportements du matériel. Ainsi, ceci ne permet pas la détection de tous les défauts de la conception.Nos contributions consistent en deux parties orthogonales et complémentaires: D’une part, nous identifions lessources des sur-contraintes dans les modèles TLM, qui apparaissent à cause de l’ordre d’interaction entre lescomposants. Nous proposons une notion d’ordre mou qui permet la suppression de ces sur-contraintes. D’autrepart, nous présentons un mécanisme généralisé de stubbing qui permet la simulation précoce avec des prototypesvirtuels SystemC/TLM.Nous offrons un jeu de patrons pour capturer les propriétés d’ordre mou et définissons une transformationdirecte de ces patrons en moniteurs SystemC. Notre mécanisme généralisé du stubbing permet la simulationprécoce avec les prototypes virtuels SystemC/TLM, dans lesquels certains composants ne sont pas entièrementdéterminés sur les valeurs des données échangées, l’ordre d’interaction et/ou le timing. Ces composants nepossèdent qu’une spécification abstraite, sous forme de contraintes entre les entrées et les sorties. Nous montronsque les problèmes essentielles de la synchronisation entre les composants peuvent être capturés à l’aide de notresimulation avec les stubs. Le mécanisme est générique; nous mettons l’accent uniquement sur les concepts-clés,les principes et les règles qui rendent le mécanisme de stubbing implémentable et applicable aux études de casindustriels. N’importe quel language de spécification satisfaisant nos exigences (par ex. le langage des ordresmou) peut être utilisé pour spécifier les composants, c’est-à-dire il peut être branché au framework de stubbing.Nous fournissons une preuve de concept pour démontrer l’intérêt d’utiliser la simulation avec stubs pour ladétection anticipée et la localisation des défauts de synchronisation du modèle
The work presented in this thesis deals with modeling, specification and testing of models of Systems-on-a-Chip (SoCs) at the transaction abstraction level and higher. SoCs are heterogeneous: they comprise bothhardware components and processors to execute embedded software, which closely interacts with hardware.SystemC-based Transaction Level Modeling (TLM) has been very successful in providing high-level executablecomponent-based models for SoCs, also called virtual prototypes (VPs). These models can be used early in thedesign flow for the development of the software and the validation of the actual hardware. For SystemC/TLMvirtual prototypes, Assertion-Based Verification (ABV) allows property checking early in the design cycle,helping to find bugs early in the model and to save time and effort that are needed for their fixing. TL modelscan be over-constrained, which means that they do not represent all the behaviors of the hardware, and thus,do not allow detection of some malfunctions of the prototype. Our contributions consist of two orthogonal andcomplementary parts: On the one hand, we identify sources of over-constraints in TL models appearing due tothe order of interactions between components, and propose a notion of loose-ordering which allows to removethese over-constraints. On the other hand, we propose a generalized stubbing mechanism which allows the veryearly simulation with SystemC/TLM virtual prototypes.We propose a set of patterns to capture loose-ordering properties, and define a direct translation of thesepatterns into SystemC monitors. Our generalized stubbing mechanism enables the early simulation with Sys-temC/TLM virtual prototypes, in which some components are not entirely determined on the values of theexchanged data, the order of the interactions and/or the timing. Those components have very abstract speci-fications only, in the form of constraints between inputs and outputs. We show that essential synchronizationproblems between components can be captured using our simulation with stubs. The mechanism is generic;we focus only on key concepts, principles and rules which make the stubbing mechanism implementable andapplicable for real, industrial case studies. Any specification language satisfying our requirements (e.g., loose-orderings) can be used to specify the components, i.e., it can be plugged in the stubbing framework. We providea proof of concept to demonstrate the interest of using the simulation with stubs for very early detection andlocalization of synchronization bugs of the design

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Flórez, Martha Johanna Sepúlveda. "Estimativa de desempenho de uma NoC a partir de seu modelo em SYSTEMC-TLM." Universidade de São Paulo, 2006. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/3/3140/tde-14122006-152854/.

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The wide variety of interconnection structures presently nowadays for SoC (Systemon- Chip), bus and networks-on-Chip NoCs, each of them with a wide set of setup parameters, provides a huge amount of design alternatives. Although the interconnection structure is a key SoC component, there are few design tools in order to set the appropriate configuration parameters for a given application. An efficient SoC project may comply an exploration stage among the possible solutions for the communication structure, during the first steps of the design process. The absence of appropriate tools for that exploration makes critical the designer?s judgment. The present study aims to enhance the communication SoC structure design area, when a NoC is used. This work proposes a methodology that allows the establishment of the NoC communication parameters using a high level model (SystemC TLM timed). Our approach analyzes and evaluates the NoC performance under a wide variety of traffic conditions. The experimental stage was conducted employing a model of a net represented by a SystemC TLM timed (Hermes_Temp). Parametric and pseudo-random generators control the network traffic. The analysis was carried on with a tool designed for these purpose, which generates a group of performance metrics. The results allow to elucidate the global and inner network behavior. The performance values are useful for the heterogeneous and homogeneous NoC design projects, improving the performance evaluation studies scope.
The wide variety of interconnection structures presently nowadays for SoC (Systemon- Chip), bus and networks-on-Chip NoCs, each of them with a wide set of setup parameters, provides a huge amount of design alternatives. Although the interconnection structure is a key SoC component, there are few design tools in order to set the appropriate configuration parameters for a given application. An efficient SoC project may comply an exploration stage among the possible solutions for the communication structure, during the first steps of the design process. The absence of appropriate tools for that exploration makes critical the designer?s judgment. The present study aims to enhance the communication SoC structure design area, when a NoC is used. This work proposes a methodology that allows the establishment of the NoC communication parameters using a high level model (SystemC TLM timed). Our approach analyzes and evaluates the NoC performance under a wide variety of traffic conditions. The experimental stage was conducted employing a model of a net represented by a SystemC TLM timed (Hermes_Temp). Parametric and pseudo-random generators control the network traffic. The analysis was carried on with a tool designed for these purpose, which generates a group of performance metrics. The results allow to elucidate the global and inner network behavior. The performance values are useful for the heterogeneous and homogeneous NoC design projects, improving the performance evaluation studies scope.

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Al-Araje, Abdul-Nasser. "Micronetwork based system-on-FPGA (SOFPGA) architecture." Connect to resource, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1122609799.

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Frantz, Arthur Pereira. "Designing fault tolerant NoCs to improve reliability on SoCs." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/11302.

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Com a redução das dimensões dos dispositivos nas tecnologias sub-micrônicas foi possível um grande aumento no número de IP cores integrados em um mesmo chip e consequentemente novas arquiteturas de comunicação são usadas bucando atingir os requisitos de desempenho e potência. As redes intra-chip (Networks-on-Chip) foram propostas como uma plataforma alternativa de comunicação capaz de prover interconexões e comunicação entre os cores de um mesmo chip, tratando questões como desempenho, consumo de energia e reusabilidade para grandes sistemas integrados. Por outro lado, a mesma evolução tecnológica dos processos nanométricos reduziu drasticamente a confiabilidade de circuitos integrados, tornando dispositivos e interconexões mais sensíveis a novos tipos de falhas. Erros podem ser gerados por variações no processo de fabricação ou mesmo pela susceptibilidade do projeto, quando este opera em um ambiente hostil. Na comunicação de NoCs as duas principais fontes de erros são falhas de crosstalk e soft errors. No passado, se assumia que interconexões não poderiam ser afetadas por soft errors, por não possuirem circuitos seqüenciais. Porém, quando NoCs são usadas, buffers e circuitos seqüenciais estão presentes nos roteadores e, consequentemente, podem ocorrer soft errors entre a fonte e o destino da comunicação, provocando erros. Técnicas de tolerância a falhas, que tem sido aplicadas em circuitos em geral, podem ser usadas para proteger roteadores contra bit-flips. Neste cenário, este trabalho inicia com a avaliação dos efeitos de soft errors e falhas de crosstalk em uma arquitetura de NoC, através de simulação de injeção de falhas, analisando detalhadamente o impacto de tais falhas no roteador. Os resultados mostram que os efeitos dessas falhas na comunicação do SoC podem ser desastrosos, levando a perda de pacotes e travamento ou indisponibilidade do sistema. Então é proposta e avaliada a aplicação de um conjunto de técnicas de tolerância a falhas em roteadores, possibilitando diminuir os soft errors e falhas de crosstalk no nível de hardware. Estas técnicas propostas foram baseadas em códigos de correção de erros e redundância de hardware. Resultados experimentais mostram que estas técnicas podem obter zero erros com 50% a menos de overhead de área, quando comparadas com a duplicação simples. Entretanto, algumas dessas técnicas têm um grande consumo de potência, pois toda essas técnicas são baseadas na adição de hardware redundante. Considerando que as técnicas de proteção baseadas em software também impõe um considerável overhead na comunicação devido à retransmissão, é proposto o uso de técnicas mistas de hardware e software, que podem oferecer um nível de proteção satisfatório, baseado na análise do ambiente onde o sistema irá operar (soft error rate), fatores relativos ao projeto e fabricação (variações de atraso em interconexões, pontos susceptíveis a crosstalk), a probabilidade de uma falha gerar um erro em um roteador, a carga de comunicação e os limites de potência e energia suportados.
As the technology scales down into deep sub-micron domain, more IP cores are integrated in the same die and new communication architectures are used to meet performance and power constraints. Networks-on-Chip have been proposed as an alternative communication platform capable of providing interconnections and communication among onchip cores, handling performance, energy consumption and reusability issues for large integrated systems. However, the same advances to nanometric technologies have significantly reduced reliability in mass-produced integrated circuits, increasing the sensitivity of devices and interconnects to new types of failures. Variations at the fabrication process or even the susceptibility of a design under a hostile environment might generate errors. In NoC communications the two major sources of errors are crosstalk faults and soft errors. In the past, it was assumed that connections cannot be affected by soft errors because there was no sequential circuit involved. However, when NoCs are used, buffers and sequential circuits are present in the routers, consequently, soft errors can occur between the communication source and destination provoking errors. Fault tolerant techniques that once have been applied in integrated circuits in general can be used to protect routers against bit-flips. In this scenario, this work starts evaluating the effects of soft errors and crosstalk faults in a NoC architecture by performing fault injection simulations, where it has been accurate analyzed the impact of such faults over the switch service. The results show that the effect of those faults in the SoC communication can be disastrous, leading to loss of packets and system crash or unavailability. Then it proposes and evaluates a set of fault tolerant techniques applied at routers able to mitigate soft errors and crosstalk faults at the hardware level. Such proposed techniques were based on error correcting codes and hardware redundancy. Experimental results show that using the proposed techniques one can obtain zero errors with up to 50% of savings in the area overhead when compared to simple duplication. However some of these techniques are very power consuming because all the tolerance is based on adding redundant hardware. Considering that softwarebased mitigation techniques also impose a considerable communication overhead due to retransmission, we then propose the use of mixed hardware-software techniques, that can develop a suitable protection scheme driven by the analysis of the environment that the system will operate in (soft error rate), the design and fabrication factors (delay variations in interconnects, crosstalk enabling points), the probability of a fault generating an error in the router, the communication load and the allowed power or energy budget.

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Gonciari, Paul Theo. "Low cost test for core-based system-on-a-chip." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2003. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/257354/.

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The availability of high level integration leads to building of millions of gates systemson- a-chip (SOC). Due to the high complexity of SOCs, testing them is becoming increasingly difficult. In addition, if the current test practises are maintained, the high cost of test will lead to a considerable production cost increase. To alleviate the test cost problem, this research investigates methods which lead to low-cost test of core-based systems-on-a-chip based on test resource partitioning and without changing the embedded cores. Analysing the factors which drive the continuous increase in test cost, this thesis identifies a number of factors which need to be addressed in order to reduce the cost of test. These include volume of test data, number of pins for test, bandwidth requirements and the cost of test equipment. The approaches proposed to alleviate the cost of test problem have been validated using academic and industrial benchmark cores. To reduce the volume of test data and the number of pins for test, the new Variablelength Input Huffman Coding (VIHC) test data compression method is proposed, which is capable of simultaneously reducing the volume of test data, the test application time and the on-chip area overhead, when compared to previously reported approaches. Due to the partitioning of resources among the SOC and the test equipment, various synchronisation issues arise. Synchronisation increases the cost of test equipment and hence limits the effectiveness of test resource partitioning schemes. Therefore, the synchronisation issues imposed by test data compression methods are analysed and an on-chip distribution architecture is proposed which in addition to accounting for the synchronisation issues also reduces the test application time. The cost of test equipment is related to the amount of test memory, and therefore efficient exploitation of this resource is of great importance. Analysing the memory requirements for core based SOCs, useless test data is identified as one contributor to the total amount of allocated memory, leading to inefficient memory usage. To address this problem a complementary approach to test data compression is proposed to reduce the test memory requirements through elimination of useless test data. Finally, a new test methodology is proposed which combines the approaches proposed in this thesis into an integrated solution for SOC test. The proposed solution leads to reduction in volume of test data, test pins, bandwidth requirements and cost of test equipment. Furthermore, the solution provides seamless integration with the design flow and refrains from changing the cores. Hence, it provides a low-cost test solution for corebased SOC using test resource partitioning.

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Lecat-Mathieu, de Boissac Capucine. "Developing radiation-hardening solutions for high-performance and low-power systems." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Aix-Marseille, 2021. http://www.theses.fr/2021AIXM0413.

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De nouveaux acteurs industriels déploient de larges constellations de satellites, tandis que d'autres domaines comme l'industrie automobile développent des systèmes robustes. Ces systèmes s'appuient sur des technologies avancées, telles que le UTBB FD-SOI, afin d'atteindre les performances nécessaires. La complexité et la vitesse croissantes des systèmes nécessitent une caractérisation précise de ces technologies, ainsi qu'une adaptation des techniques traditionnelles de durcissement. L'objectif est l'étude des effets des radiations dans les technologies FD-SOI et bulk, ainsi que la recherche de mécanismes innovants de durcissement. Une structure intégrée de mesures des SETs, auto-calibrée et conçue grâce à un flot de conception automatisé est d'abord présentée. Elle permet la caractérisation de 4 technologies. La réponse aux radiations des cellules numériques est ensuite évaluée par des tests sous faisceau et par le biais de simulations TCAD, permettant d'étudier l'influence de la tension, de la fréquence de fonctionnement ainsi que l'application d'une tension en face arrière sur la sensibilité. Le TID est également étudié à l'aide d'un bloc de mesure intégré. Les différents résultats sont ensuite utilisés afin de proposer une nouvelle solution de durcissement pour les systèmes sur puce, qui rassemble les précédents blocs de mesure dans un module d'évaluation en temps réel du milieu radiatif. Une unité de gestion de l'énergie pour adapter les modes de fonctionnement au profil de mission. Enfin, une utilisation détournée du détecteur de SETs est proposée dans un contexte de sécurité des systèmes pour détecter et contrer les attaques laser
New actors have accelerated the pace of putting new satellites into orbit, and other domains like the automotive industry are at the origin of this development. These new actors rely on advanced technologies, such as UTBB FD-SOI in order to be able to achieve the necessary performance to accomplish the tasks. Albeit disruptive in terms of intrinsic soft-error resistance, the growing density and complexity of spaceborne and automotive systems require an accurate characterization of technologies, as well as an adaptation of traditional hardening techniques. This PhD focuses on the study of radiation effects in advanced FD-SOI and bulk silicon processes, and on the research of innovative protection mechanisms. A custom, self-calibrating transient measurements structure with automated design flow is first presented, allowing for the characterization of four different technologies during accelerated tests. The soft-error response of 28~nm FD-SOI and 40~nm bulk logic and storage cells is then assessed through beam testing and with the help of TCAD simulations, allowing to study the influence of voltage, frequency scaling and the application of forward body biasing on sensitivity. Total ionizing dose is also investigated through the use of an on-chip monitoring block. The test results are then utilized to propose a novel hardening solution for system on chip, which gathers the monitoring structures into a real-time radiation environment assessment and a power management unit for power mode adjustments. Finally, as an extension of the SET sensors capability, an implementation of radiation monitors in a context of secure systems is proposed to detect and counteract laser attacks

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Kremel, Bruno. "Framework for Reconfigurable Systems on the Altera Chips." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta informačních technologií, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-264971.

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This work reviews the development frameworks available for the Altera System-On-Chip solutions. These solutions are then compared to solutions available on the Xilinx platform. The RSoC Framework is then presented as an advantageous alternative for the vendor's solutions. This framework is currently available for the Xilinx Zynq platform. Furthermore the work assess the key differences between Xilinx Zynq and Altera Cyclone V SoC platforms and proposes the solution to port the framework to Altera platform. The design and implementation of then RSoC Framework port to Altera Cyclone V SoC is then discussed. Finally the work evaluates the performance of the ported system on the new platform.

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Lu, Jian. "Embedded Magnetics for Power System on Chip (PSoC)." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2009. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2993.

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A novel concept of on-chip bondwire inductors and transformers with ferrite epoxy glob coating is proposed, offering a cost effective approach to realize power systems on chip (PSoC) or System-in-Package (PSiP). The concept has been investigated both experimentally and with finite element modeling. Improvement in total inductance is demonstrated for multi-turn bondwire inductors over single bondwire inductors. The inductance and Q factor can be further boosted with coupled multi-turn inductor concept. Transformer parameters including self- and mutual inductance, and coupling factors are extracted from both modeled and measured S-parameters. More importantly, the bondwire magnetic components can be easily integrated into SoC manufacturing processes with minimal changes to the layout, and open enormous possibilities for realizing cost-effective, high current, high efficiency PSoC's or PSiP's. The design guidelines for single bondwire inductors as well as multi-turn inductors are discussed step by step in several chapters. Not only is the innovated concept for bondwire inductor with ferrite ink presented, but also the practical implementation and design rules are given. With all the well defined steps, people who want to use these bondwire inductors with ferrite ink in their PSoC research or products will find it as simple as using commercial inductors. Last but not least, the PSoC concept using a bondwire inductor is demonstrated by building the prototype of dc-dc buck converter IC as well as the whole package. IC and the whole function block are tested and presented in this work.
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Yabarrena, Jean Mimar Santa Cruz. "Tecnologias system on chip e CAN em sistemas de controle distribuído." Universidade de São Paulo, 2006. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/18/18149/tde-31072006-203757/.

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Sistemas de controle precisam trabalhar com restrições temporais rigorosas para garantir seu correto funcionamento, sendo por isso considerados sistemas de tempo-real. Quando tais sistemas são distribuídos, as redes de sensores, atuadores e controladores estão interligados em geral, por redes de campo. Nesse contexto, as redes de campo desempenham um papel extremamente importante no comportamento global do sistema. O presente trabalho de pesquisa apresenta a descrição do processo de desenvolvimento de um system on-chip (SoC) para um sistema de controle. Diferentemente das abordagens clássicas, o trabalho está focado em implementar o sistema baseado em um paradigma diferenciado, baseado em lógica reprogramável. Apresenta-se o projeto e construção dos IP cores necessários para controlar um motor DC, utilizando o barramento control area network (CAN) para obter uma plataforma distribuída. A arquitetura on chip utilizada está baseada na especificação CoreConnect da IBM. São expostos, ainda, trabalhos de simulação tanto dos componentes isolados, como do sistema integrado, de forma a realizar uma comparação qualitativa do processo de desenvolvimento
Control systems require strict time constraints to work properly, being therefore considered real-time systems. When such systems are distributed, controllers, sensors, and actuators are generally interconnected by fieldbuses. In this context the fieldbuses play an important role in the system global behavior. This research presents the description of the development process of a system-on-chip SoC. Differentiated from the classical approaches, this work focus the implementation of a reprogrammable logic based system. This work explain the necessary IP cores implementation, allowing a DC motor control, using a control area network (CAN) bus to reach a distributed platform. The on-chip architecture used is based on the IBM CoreConnect specification. Moreover it shows isolated components and integral system simulations, in such a way to obtain a qualitative comparison of development processes

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Janarthanan, Arun. "Networks-on-Chip based High Performance Communication Architectures for FPGAs." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1239839825.

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Wood, Christopher David. "On-chip THz systems." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2006. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/2054/.

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A variety of novel on-chip terahertz systems have been developed with the aim of advancing current on-chip spectroscopic techniques. A novel methodology for the fabrication and positioning of isolated regions of photoconductive LT-GaAs thin film has been developed, allowing generation and detection of THz signals in-plane with a microstrip transmission line device. Devices with bandwidths in excess of 1.2 THz have been demonstrated. The introduction of novel, THz frequency passive resonator elements, in the form of quarter-wave band stop filters, into a transmission line device allowed measurements of the properties of overlaid dielectric films by monitoring of the resonant shift. Cascading multiple resonators along a single interconnect allowed simultaneous measurements to be performed at isolated frequencies at discrete locations on a single device. The first full characterisation of the resonant shift as a function of load thickness for a THz filter is performed, with measurements obtained in excellent agreement with subsequent free space studies, whilst requiring a 10' reduction in sample volume. Design modifications provided ultrahigh spectroscopic resolution in the terahertz range of <2 GHz, allowing the measurement of overlaid films of DNA in single and double stranded form down to quantities of 0.211 femtomoles, almost double the sensitivity, in terms of average relative resonant shift per base pair, when compared to literature values. The active region of the devices designed for this work is N 123 times less than existing topologies and therefore represents an increase in resonant shift per unit active area of two orders of magnitude.

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Söderman, Michael. "Loss-less on-chip test response compression for diagnosis and debug in volume production of system-on-chip." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Computer and Information Science, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-11948.

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The technical evolution during the past decade have escalated the use of electronic devices, which are more common today than ever before. The market is still growing rapidly and will continue to do so. The reason for this is the increased demand for devices with integrated circuits. In addition to the increased volume of production, the chips are also becoming more complex which is also reflected in the requirements of the chip design process.

An advanced chip that combines several different hardware modules (cores) to form a complete system is called a System-on-Chip (SoC). It is of great importance that these chips work according to expectation, although it can be difficult to guarantee. The purpose of SoC testing is to verify correct behaviour as well as for diagnosis and debug.

Complex systems lead to more and bigger tests which lead to increased test data volume and test time. This results in a higher test cost and many methods are proposed to remedy this situation.

This report proposes a method that minimises fail result data with a real-time compression component embedded on the chip. The compressed fail results can be saved on-chip and retrieved when needed instead of during the test.

Furthermore this method will facilitate debug and diagnosis of SoCs. A mask buffer is used to give the opportunity of choosing exactly which cycles, pins or bits that are relevant. All other result bits are masked and ignored.

The results are satisfying, the data is compressed to a much smaller size which is easier to store on-chip. The method is simple, fast and loss-less.

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Li, Dazhang. "On-chip pulsed terahertz systems." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.531524.

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Zhao, Wei. "Digital Surveillance Based on Video CODEC System-on-a-Chip (SoC) Platforms." FIU Digital Commons, 2010. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/334.

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Today, most conventional surveillance networks are based on analog system, which has a lot of constraints like manpower and high-bandwidth requirements. It becomes the barrier for today’s surveillance network development. This dissertation describes a digital surveillance network architecture based on the H.264 coding/decoding (CODEC) System-on-a-Chip (SoC) platform. The proposed digital surveillance network architecture includes three major layers: software layer, hardware layer, and the network layer. The following outlines the contributions to the proposed digital surveillance network architecture. (1) We implement an object recognition system and an object categorization system on the software layer by applying several Digital Image Processing (DIP) algorithms. (2) For better compression ratio and higher video quality transfer, we implement two new modules on the hardware layer of the H.264 CODEC core, i.e., the background elimination module and the Directional Discrete Cosine Transform (DDCT) module. (3) Furthermore, we introduce a Digital Signal Processor (DSP) sub-system on the main bus of H.264 SoC platforms as the major hardware support system for our software architecture. Thus we combine the software and hardware platforms to be an intelligent surveillance node. Lab results show that the proposed surveillance node can dramatically save the network resources like bandwidth and storage capacity.

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Aulagnier, Guillaume. "Optimisation de convertisseurs DC-DC SoC (System on Chip) pour l'automobile." Phd thesis, Toulouse, INPT, 2015. http://oatao.univ-toulouse.fr/19512/1/AULAGNIER_Guillaume.pdf.

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L’équipe de conception de Freescale à Toulouse développe des circuits intégrés dédiés au marché de l’automobile pour des applications châssis, sécurité ou loisir. Les contraintes associées à l’embarquement des circuits sont nombreuses : niveau d’intégration, fiabilité, températures élevées, et compatibilité électromagnétique. Les produits conçus par Freescale intègrent des convertisseurs à découpage pour l’alimentation en énergie des microcontrôleurs. Cette thèse a pour objet l’étude de nouvelles topologies de convertisseur d’énergie pour la baisse de l’encombrement et des perturbations électromagnétiques. La structure multiphase répond à la problématique dans son ensemble. Un prototype est réalisé dans une technologie silicium Freescale haute tension 0.25µm. Le volume des composants externes de filtrage est optimisé et réduit. Les mesures sur le prototype montrent des performances en accord avec les objectifs, et des émissions électromagnétiques particulièrement faibles.

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Yao, Yuan. "Fuzzy Flow Regulation for Network-on-Chip based Chip Multiprocessors Systems." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för informations- och kommunikationsteknik (ICT), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-177441.

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As large uniprocessors are no longer scaling in performance, chip multiprocessors (CMP) become the mainstream to build high-performance computers. CMP chips integrate various components such as processing cores, L1 caches and L2 caches (some also contain L3 caches, for example, in the IBM Power7 multicore processor) together, and multiple CMP chips with external memory banks make up a CMP system. As buses (although long the mainstay of system interconnect) are unable to keep up with increasing performance requirements, network-on-chip (NoC) offers an attractive solution to this communication crisis and is becoming the pervasive interconnection network in CMPs. In NoC based CMP systems, regulating traffic flows has been shown to be an effective means to improve communication performance and reduce buffer requirements. However, existing flow regulation policies such as the ones describe in [8] and [9] are all static. The parameters (δ,ρ) of the regulators are hard-coded during system configuration, where δ bounds the traffic burst and ρ the traffic rate. Although static flow regulator can be used as a design instrument for System-on-Chip (SoC) architects to control quality-of-service and achieve cost-effective communication, the drawbacks from its static property cancel the gains in some situations. In this thesis, we design a fuzzy flow regulation mechanism for network-onchip based CMPs. Being different from static flow regulation policy, our system makes regulation decisions dynamically according to the state of interconnection network. We use fuzzy logic to mimic the behaviors of an expert that validly controls the admission of input flows, with the aim of making better use of on-chip resources and decreasing communication delays. We implement and test our design under Multi-facet’s General Executiondriven Multiprocessor Simulator (GEMS), which creates a platform that is similar to real CMP environment. Hardware imitating models such as L1 caches, L2 caches and memory banks help us to test our design thoroughly and comprehensively. The experiments are done with both closed-loop and open-loop methods. Comparisons have been made between our design and static regulation policy. The results show that our fuzzy flow regulation system can make good regulation policy with all the testing cases.

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Lim, Leycheoh. "Chip interleaving for CDMA cellular systems." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ29414.pdf.

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Beacham, Brent Alan. "A high-speed chip to chip interconnection circuit for FPGA emulation systems." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ58788.pdf.

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YADAV, MANOJ KUMAR. "DVFS using clock scheduling for Multicore Systems-on-Chip and Networks-on-Chip." Doctoral thesis, Politecnico di Torino, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11583/2538900.

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A modern System-on-Chip (SoC) contains processor cores, application-specific process- ing elements, memory, peripherals, all connected with a high-bandwidth and low-latency Network-on-Chip (NoC). The downside of such very high level of integration and con- nectivity is the high power consumption. In CMOS technology this is made of a dynamic and a static component. To reduce the dynamic component, Dynamic voltage and Fre- quency Scaling (DVFS) has been adopted. Although DVFS is very effective chip-wide, the power optimization of complex SoCs calls for a finer grain application of DVFS. Ideally all the main components of an SoC should be provided with a DVFS controller. An SoC with a DVFS controller per component with individual DC-DC converters and PLL/DLL circuits cannot scale in size to hundreds of components, which are in the research agenda. We present an alternative that will permit such scaling. It is possible to achieve results close to an optimum DVFS by hopping between few voltage levels and by an innovative application of clock-gating that we term as clock scheduling. We obtain an effective clock frequency by periodically killing some clock cycles of a master clock. We can apply voltage scaling for some of the periodic clock schedules which yield effective clock 1/2, 1/3, . . . By dithering between few voltages we obtain results close to an ideal DVFS system in simple pipelined circuits and in a complex example, a NoC’s switch. Again in the context of a NoC, we show how clock scheduling and voltage scaling can be automatically determined by means of a proportional-integral loop controller that keeps track of the network load. We describe in detail its implementation and all the circuit-level issues that we found. For a single switch, result shows an advantage of up to 2X over simple frequency scaling without voltage scaling. By providing each NoC’s switch with our simple DVFS controller, power saving at network level can be significantly more than what a a global DVFS controller can get. In a realistic scenario represented by network traces generated by video applications (MPEG, PIP, MWD, VoPD), we obtain an average power saving of 33%. To reduce static power, the Power-Gating (PG) technique is used and consists in switching- off power supply of unused blocks via pMOS headers or nMOS footers in series with such blocks. Even though research has been done in this field, the application of PG to NoCs has not been fully investigated. We show that it is possible to apply PG to the input buffers of a NoC switch. Their leakage power contributes about 40-50% of total NoC power, hence reducing such contribution is worthwhile. We partitioned buffers in banks and apply PG only to inactive banks. With our technique, it is possible to save about 40% in leakage power, without impact on performance.

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Liu, Chih-Chun. "Dynamic thermal management in chip multiprocessor systems." [College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2913.

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Krundel, Ludovic. "On microelectronic self-learning cognitive chip systems." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2016. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/21804.

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After a brief review of machine learning techniques and applications, this Ph.D. thesis examines several approaches for implementing machine learning architectures and algorithms into hardware within our laboratory. From this interdisciplinary background support, we have motivations for novel approaches that we intend to follow as an objective of innovative hardware implementations of dynamically self-reconfigurable logic for enhanced self-adaptive, self-(re)organizing and eventually self-assembling machine learning systems, while developing this new particular area of research. And after reviewing some relevant background of robotic control methods followed by most recent advanced cognitive controllers, this Ph.D. thesis suggests that amongst many well-known ways of designing operational technologies, the design methodologies of those leading-edge high-tech devices such as cognitive chips that may well lead to intelligent machines exhibiting conscious phenomena should crucially be restricted to extremely well defined constraints. Roboticists also need those as specifications to help decide upfront on otherwise infinitely free hardware/software design details. In addition and most importantly, we propose these specifications as methodological guidelines tightly related to ethics and the nowadays well-identified workings of the human body and of its psyche.

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Beasley, Alexander. "Exploring the benefits and implications of dynamic partial reconfiguration using Field Programmable Gate Array-System on Chip architectures." Thesis, University of Bath, 2019. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.767597.

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Demands on modern computing are becoming more intensive. Keeping up with these demands has increasing complexity. Moore's Law is in decline. Increasing the number of cores on a device has diminishing returns. Specialised architectures provide more efficient and higher performing processors. However, it is not always practical to include every architecture on every device. Running non-native tasks on architectures often results in a drop in performance. This research examines the benefits and limitations of Field Programmable Gate Arrays - Systems on Chip (FPGA-SoC) devices to provide flexible hardware accelerators for heterogeneous architectures. A number of topics are covered, including hardware acceleration of floating-point mathematical functions, dynamic reconfiguration and high-level synthesis. A number of case studies are presented. Dynamic reconfiguration is used to change the configuration of the FPGA at runtime, allowing the hardware accelerators to be changed depending on the current processor tasks. Changing accelerators at runtime has limitations, such as data perturbation. Context switching techniques are applied to the hardware to prevent loss of data and enable de-fragmentation of the FPGA. High level synthesis techniques are used in conjunction with the presented hardware accelerators to synthesise high-level languages into hardware descriptions with optimisations. Techniques for runtime synthesis of hardware accelerators are presented. These can be combined with dynamic reconfiguration to configure FPGAs with appropriate hardware accelerators from a high-level language at runtime. The research demonstrates that FPGA-SoC devices have the potential for providing reconfigurable accelerators for processors in heterogeneous architectures. Metrics show that the FPGA configurations can perform better than other commercial processors. It was demonstrated that it is possible to context switch hardware at runtime, meaning the most can be made of the FPGA-SoC at all times, even as situations change. However, there are many limitations that still need to be overcome, such as management of the implemented hardware, synthesis of new hardware at runtime, reconfiguration times, interfacing of hardware with software and the design of hardware accelerators.

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Chang, Jyun-Lyang. "Performance evaluation of wireless Networks on Chip." Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University, 2009. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Spring2009/j_chang_123009.pdf.

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Thesis (M.S. in electrical engineering)--Washington State University, May 2009.
Title from PDF title page (viewed on July 21, 2009). "School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science." Includes bibliographical references (p. 42-43).

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Johansson, Henrik. "Evaluating Vivado High-Level Synthesis on OpenCV Functions for the Zynq-7000 FPGA." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för innovation, design och teknik, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-29591.

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More complex and intricate Computer Vision algorithms combined with higher resolution image streams put bigger and bigger demands on processing power. CPU clock frequencies are now pushing the limits of possible speeds, and have instead started growing in number of cores. Most Computer Vision algorithms' performance respond well to parallel solutions. Dividing the algorithm over 4-8 CPU cores can give a good speed-up, but using chips with Programmable Logic (PL) such as FPGA's can give even more. An interesting recent addition to the FPGA family is a System on Chip (SoC) that combines a CPU and an FPGA in one chip, such as the Zynq-7000 series from Xilinx. This tight integration between the Programmable Logic and Processing System (PS) opens up for designs where C programs can use the programmable logic to accelerate selected parts of the algorithm, while still behaving like a C program. On that subject, Xilinx has introduced a new High-Level Synthesis Tool (HLST) called Vivado HLS, which has the power to accelerate C code by synthesizing it to Hardware Description Language (HDL) code. This potentially bridges two otherwise very separate worlds; the ever popular OpenCV library and FPGAs. This thesis will focus on evaluating Vivado HLS from Xilinx primarily with image processing in mind for potential use on GIMME-2; a system with a Zynq-7020 SoC and two high resolution image sensors, tailored for stereo vision.

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Oberle, Michael. "Low power systems-on-chip for biomedical applications /." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2002. http://e-collection.ethbib.ethz.ch/show?type=diss&nr=14509.

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