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1.A fast and accurate network-on-chip timing
simulator with a flit propagation model
IEEE 2015
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Abstract:
Network-on-chip (NoC) can be a simulation bottleneck in a many-core system. Traditional
cycle-accurate NoC simulators need a long simulation time, as they synchronize all
components (routers and FIFOs) every cycle to guarantee the exact behaviors. Also,
a NoC simulation does not benefit from transaction-level modeling (TLM) in speed without
any accuracy loss, because the transaction timings of a simulated packet depend on other
packets due to wormhole switching. In this paper, we propose a novel NoC simulation
method which can calculate cycle-accurate timings with wormhole switching. Instead of
updating states of routers and FIFOs cycle-by-cycle, we use a pre-built model to calculate a
flit's exact times at ports of routers in a NoC. The results of the proposed simulator are
verified withNoC implementations (cycle-accurate at RTL) created by a
commercial NoC compiler. All timing results match perfectly with packet waveforms
generated by above NoCs (with 40-325 times speed up). As another comparison, the speed
of the simulator is similar or faster (0.5-23X) than a TG2 NoC model, which is a SystemC
and transaction-level model without timing accuracy (due to ignoring wormhole traffics).
2.A Methodology for Cognitive NoC Design
IEEE 2015
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Abstract:
The number of cores in a multicore chip design has been increasing in the past two
decades. The rate of increase will continue for the foreseeable future. With a large number

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of cores, the on-chip communication has become a very important design consideration.
The increasing number of cores will push the communication complexity level to a point
where managing such highly complex systems requires much more than what designers
can anticipate for. We propose a new design methodology for implementing a cognitive
network-on-chip that has the ability to recognize changes in the environment and to learn
new ways to adapt to the changes. This learning capability provides a way for the network
to manage itself. Individual network nodes work autonomously to achieve global system
goals, e.g., low network latency, higher reliability, power efficiency, adaptability, etc. We use
fault-tolerant routing as a case study. Simulation results show that the cognitive design has
the potential to outperform the conventional design for large applications. With the great
inherent flexibility to adopt different algorithms, the cognitive design can be applied to many
applications.
3.A packet-switched interconnect for many-core
systems with BE and RT service
IEEE 2015
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Abstract:
A packet-switched interconnect design which supports real-time and best-effort services is
proposed. This interconnect is different from traditional NoCs in that we use direction
channels to replace the large input buffers and use less resource to realize the network
transfer. The connection between our interconnect design and IP core is an on-chip
memory management block named DME. The real-time service implies preferential transfer
channel allocation, maximum delay bound and time stamping of every real-time packet. The
solution is geared towards many-core systems, such as complex industrial control systems
and communication devices, which require these features to facilitate efficient SW and
application development.
4.FPGA based design of low power reconfigurable
router for Network on Chip (NoC)
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Abstract:
FPGA based design of reconfigurable router for NoC applications is proposed in the present
work. Design entry of the proposed router is done using Verilog Hardware Description
Language (Verilog HDL). The router designed in the present work has four channels
(namely, east, west, north and south) and a crossbar switch. Each channel consists of First
in First out (FIFO) buffers and multiplexers. FIFO buffers are used to store the data and the
input and output of the data are controlled using multiplexers. Firstly, south channel is
designed which includes the design of FIFO and multiplexers. After that, the crossbar switch
and other three channels are designed. All these designed channels, FIFO buffers,
multiplexers and crossbar switches are integrated to form the complete router architecture.
The proposed design is simulated using Modelsim and the RTL view is obtained using Xilinx
ISE 13.4. Xilinx SPARTAN-6 FPGAs are used for synthesis of proposed design. Power
dissipation of the proposed reconfigurable router is reduced using Power gating technique.
Total power is calculated by the use of XPower Analyzer tool. Obtained results show that
the proposed design consumes less power compared to the previously designed
reconfigurable routers.
5.Reliable router architecture with elastic buffer for
NoC architecture
IEEE 2015
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Abstract:
Router is the basic building block of the interconnection network. In this paper, new router
architecture with elastic buffer is proposed which is reliable and also has less area and
power consumption. The proposed router architecture is based on new error detection
mechanisms appropriate for dynamic NoCarchitectures. It considers data packet error
detection, correction and also routing errors. The uniqueness of the reliable router
architecture is to focus on finding error sources accurately. This technique differentiates
permanent and transient errors and also protects diagonal availabilities. Input and output
buffers in router architectures are replaced by elastic buffers. Routers spend considerable
area and power for router buffer. In this paper the proposed router architecture replaces
FIFO buffers with the elastic buffers in order to reduce area, and power consumption and
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6.Design and analysis of 10 port router for network
on chip (NoC)
IEEE 2015
Abstract:
Network on chip is an emerging technology which provides data reliability and high speed
with less power consumption. With the technological advancements a large number of
devices can be integrated into a single chip. So the communication between these devices
becomes vital. The network on chip (NoC) router is used for such communication. This
paper focuses on the design analysis of 10 port router. The delay (2.571ns) and power
(80.98mW) is minimized by using crossbar switch. The proposed architecture of 10 port
router is simulated and synthesized in Xilinx ISE 14.4 software.
7.Concentration and Its Impact on Mesh and
Torus-Based NoC Performance
IEEE 2015
Abstract:
This paper investigates the effects of concentration on the performance of k-ary n-cubes.
Simulation results indicate that only large ratios of packet length-to-average hop-count are
in favor of concentrated mesh and torus. The Cmesh takes full advantage of its high
channel bandwidth to outperform Ctorus. Moreover, non-local traffic suffers more from
performance bottleneck than local traffic at routers. Providing dedicated input ports, one for
each IP, at routers, reduces the average packet latency compared to a configuration with a
single input port shared by all IP cores of the cluster.

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8.Effect of core ordering on application mapping
onto mesh based network-on-chip design
IEEE 2015
Abstract:
This paper presents a mapping strategy onto mesh based Network-on-Chip (NoC)
architecture by using combined techniques such as Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and
constructive heuristic. To arrive at a better solution, the basic PSO has been augmented
further. That is, it runs the PSOs multiple times. The mapping result has been compared, in
terms of communication cost, with an exact method such as Integer Linear Programming
(ILP) and other methods. Experiment results show improvement with other approaches.
9.Merged switch allocation and transversal with
dual layer adaptive error control for Network-on-
Chip switches
IEEE 2015
Abstract:
In this paper, we propose a Network on Chip router architecture with increased reliability,
energy efficiency and with reduced area overhead. The proposed router architecture model
adjusts dynamically to the error control strengths of the layers of NoC. In this paper, we
target to optimize the combined operations of arbiter and multiplexer by using a Merged
Arbiter Multiplexer (MARX) along with a dual layer cooperative error control protocol. By
doing so, the number of pipe line stages, area and power consumed is reduced. We use XY
Routing algorithm to send data from one router to the other when these routers are placed
in network architecture. The proposed model outperforms the dual layer error control model
without MARX unit. The router architecture with MARX unit has 22.7% less area and 2.4%
less energy consumption than router architecture without MARX unit but has moderate
increase in the delay.

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10. Argo: A Real-Time Network-on-Chip
Architecture With an Efficient GALS
Implementation
IEEE 2015
Abstract:
In this paper, we present an area-efficient, globally asynchronous, locally synchronous
network-on-chip (NoC) architecture for a hard real-time multiprocessor platform.
The NoC implements message-passing communication between processor cores. It uses
statically scheduled time-division multiplexing (TDM) to control the communication over a
structure of routers, links, and network interfaces (NIs) to offer real-time guarantees. The
area-efficient design is a result of two contributions: 1) asynchronous routers combined with
TDM scheduling and 2) a novel NI microarchitecture. Together they result in a design in
which data are transferred in a pipelined fashion, from the local memory of the sending core
to the local memory of the receiving core, without any dynamic arbitration, buffering, and
clock synchronization. The routers use two-phase bundled-data handshake latches based
on the Mousetrap latch controller and are extended with a clock gating mechanism to
reduce the energy consumption. The NIs integrate the direct memory access functionality
and the TDM schedule, and use dual-ported local memories to avoid buffering, flow-control,
and synchronization. To verify the design, we have implemented a 4 x 4 bitorus NoC in 65-
nm CMOS technology and we present results on area, speed, and energy consumption for
the router, NI, NoC, and postlayout.
11. High Speed Modified Booth Encoder
Multiplier for Signed and Unsigned Numbers
IEEE 2015
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Abstract:
This paper presents the design and implementation of signed-unsigned Modified Booth
Encoding (SUMBE) multiplier. The present Modified Booth Encoding (MBE) multiplier and
the Baugh-Wooleymultiplier perform multiplication operation on signed numbers only. The
array multiplier and Braun arraymultipliers perform multiplication operation on unsigned
numbers only. Thus, the requirement of the modern computer system is a dedicated and
very high speed unique multiplier unit for signed and unsigned numbers. Therefore, this
paper presents the design and implementation of SUMBE multiplier. The modified Booth
Encoder circuit generates half the partial products in parallel. By extending sign bit of the
operands and generating an additional partial product the SUMBE multiplier is obtained.
The Carry Save Adderr (CSA) tree and the final Carry Look ahead (CLA) adder used to
speed up themultiplier operation. Since signed and unsigned multiplication operation is
performed by the samemultiplier unit the required hardware and the chip area reduces and
this in turn reduces power dissipation and cost of a system.
12. Design and implementation of 16 × 16
multiplier using Vedic mathematics
IEEE 2015
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Abstract:
This paper briefly describes the Urdhva-Tiryagbhyam Sutra of vedic mathematics and we
have designed multiplier based on the sutra. Vedic Mathematics is the ancient system of
mathematics which has a unique technique of calculations based on 16 Sutras which are
discovered by Sri Bharti Krishna Tirthaji. In this era of digitalization, it is required to increase
the speed of the digital circuits while reducing the on chip area and memory consumption.
In various applications of digital signal processing, multiplication is one of the key
component. Vedic technique eliminates the unwanted multiplication steps thus reducing the
propagation delay in processor and hence reducing the hardware complexity in terms of
area and memory requirement. We implement the basic building block: 16 × 16
Vedic multiplier based on Urdhva-Tiryagbhyam Sutra. This Vedic multiplier is coded in
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array multiplier in VHDL is compared with proposedmultiplier in terms of speed and
memory.
13. Low power multiplier architectures using
vedic mathematics in 45nm technology for high
speed computing
IEEE 2015
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Abstract:
Speed and the overall performance of any digital signal processor are largely determined by
the efficiency of the multiplier units present within. The use of Vedic mathematics has
resulted in significant improvement in the performance of multiplier architectures used for
high speed computing. This paper proposes 4-bit and 8-bit multiplier architectures based on
Urdhva Tiryakbhyam sutra. These low power designs are realized in 45 nm CMOS Process
technology using Cadence EDA tool.
14. Design of area and power aware reduced
Complexity Wallace Tree multiplier
IEEE 2015
Abstract:
Multiplier is a vital block in high speed Digital Signal Processing Applications. With the more
advance techniques in wireless communication and high-speed ULSI techniques in recent
era, the more stress in modern ULSI design under which main constraints are Power,
Silicon area and delay. In all the high-speed application to Very Large Scale Integration
fields, fast speed and less area is required. There are two approaches to improve the speed
of multipliers namely booth algorithm and other is Wallace tree algorithm.
Generally, multipliers require high latency during the partial products addition and
conventional multipliers have more stages so delay is more. However, in this paper, the
work has been done to reduce the area by using energy efficient CMOS Full Adder. To
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stage operation, which again leads to lesser number of stages and subsequently less
number of transistors .Moreover the gate count is significantly reduced. Multipliers and their
associated circuits like half adders, full adders and accumulators consume a significant
portion of most high-speed applications. Therefore, it is necessary to increase their
performance as well as size efficiency by customization. In order to reduce the hardware
complexity which ultimately reduces an area and power, Energy Efficient full adders plays a
vital role in Wallace tree multiplier. Reduced Complexity Wallace multiplier (RCWM) will
have fewer adders than Standard Wallace multiplier (SWM). The Reduced complexity
reduction method greatly reduces the number of half adders with 65-75 % reduction in an
area of half adders than standard Wallace multipliers.
15. FPGA implementation of vedic floating point
multiplier
IEEE 2015
Abstract:
Most of the scientific operation involve floating point computations. It is necessary to
implement fastermultipliers occupying less area and consuming less power. Multipliers play
a critical role in any digital design. Even though various multiplication algorithms have been
in use, the performance of Vedicmultipliers has not drawn a wider attention. Vedic
mathematics involves application of 16 sutras or algorithms. One among these, the Urdhva
tiryakbhyam sutra for multiplication has been considered in this work. An IEEE-754 based
Vedic multiplier has been developed to carry out both single precision and double precision
format floating point operations and its performance has been compared with Booth and
Karatsuba based floating point multipliers. Xilinx FPGA has been made use of while
implementing these algorithms and a resource utilization and timing performance based
comparison has also been made.
16. FPGA based design of low power
reconfigurable router for Network on Chip (NoC)
IEEE 2015

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Abstract:
FPGA based design of reconfigurable router for NoC applications is proposed in the present
work. Design entry of the proposed router is done using Verilog Hardware Description
Language (Verilog HDL). The router designed in the present work has four channels
(namely, east, west, north and south) and a crossbar switch. Each channel consists of First
in First out (FIFO) buffers and multiplexers. FIFO buffers are used to store the data and the
input and output of the data are controlled using multiplexers. Firstly, south channel is
designed which includes the design of FIFO and multiplexers. After that, the crossbar switch
and other three channels are designed. All these designed channels, FIFO buffers,
multiplexers and crossbar switches are integrated to form the complete router architecture.
The proposed design is simulated using Modelsim and the RTL view is obtained using Xilinx
ISE 13.4. Xilinx SPARTAN-6 FPGAs are used for synthesis of proposed design. Power
dissipation of the proposed reconfigurable router is reduced using Power gating technique.
Total power is calculated by the use of XPower Analyzer tool. Obtained results show that
the proposed design consumes less power compared to the previously designed
reconfigurable routers.
17. VHDL Implementation of Genetic Algorithm
for 2-bit Adder
Abstract:
Future planetary and deep space exploration demands that the space vehicles should have
robust system architectures and be reconfigurable in unpredictable environment. The
Evolutionary design of electronic circuits, or Evolvable hardware (EHW), is a discipline that
allows the user to automatically obtain the desired circuit design. The circuit configuration is
under control of Evolutionary algorithms. The most commonly used evolutionary algorithm is
Genetic Algorithm. The paper discusses on Cartesian Genetic Programming for evolving
gate level designs and proposes Evolvable unit for 2-bit adder based on Genetic Algorithm
18. An Area- and Energy-Efficient FIFO Design
Using Error-Reduced Data Compression and
Near-Threshold Operation for Image/Video
Applications
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Abstract:
Many image/video processing algorithms require FIFO for filtering. The FIFO size is
proportional to the length of the filters and input data width, causing large area and power
consumption. We have proposed an energy- and area-efficient FIFO design for image/video
applications through FIFO with error-reduced data compression (FERDC) and near-
threshold operation. On architecture level, FERDC technique is proposed to reduce the size
and power consumption of the FIFO by utilizing the spatial correlation between neighboring
pixels and performing error-reduced data compression together with quantization to
minimize the mean square error (MSE). On circuit level, nearthreshold operation is adopted
to achieve further power reduction while maintaining the required performance. To
demonstrate the proposed FIFO, it has been implemented using a 0.18-μm CMOS
process technology. The implementation covers different FIFO length, including 128, 256,
512, and 1024. The experimental results show that the proposed FIFO operating at 0.5 V
and 28.57 MHz achieves up to 99%, 65%, and 34.91% reduction in dynamic power,
leakage power, and area, respectively, with a small MSE of 2.76, compared with the
conventional FIFO design.The proposed FIFO can be applied to a wide range of
image/video signal processing applications to achieve high area and energy efficiency.
19. An Area- and Power-Efficient FIFO with
Error-Reduced Data Compression for
Image/Video Processing
IEEE 2014
Abstract:
Filtering is a key component of many digital image/video processing algorithms. It often
requires FIFO to temporarily buffer the pixels data for later usage. The FIFO size
is proportional to the length of the filters and input data width, causing large area and power
consumption. This paper presents a technique named FIFO with error-reduced data
compression (FERDC) to reduce the FIFO size for various filters. The proposed FERDC
significantly reduces the area and power consumption while keeping the error metrics such
as mean square error (MSE) and peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR) in the acceptable range.
Simulation results of a two dimensional wavelet filter shows that the proposed FERDC
technique achieves the FIFO size reduction of up to 44.44% with PSNR values larger than
39 dB, which leads to the reduction of at least 31.6% in the dynamic power and 44.44% in
the leakage power.
20. DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF FIVE PORT
ROUTER FOR NETWORK ON CHIP
Abstract:
With the technological advancements a large number of devices can be integrated into a
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on chip (NoC) is a technology used for such communication. A router is the fundamental
component of a NoC. This paper focuses on the implementation and the verification of a
five port router. The building blocks of the router are buffering registers, demultiplexer, First
In First Out registers, and schedulers. The scheduler uses the round robin algorithm. The
proposed architecture of five port router is simulated in Xilinx ISE 10.1 software. The source code is
written in VHDL.
21. Design and verification of five port router for
network on chip
IEEE 2014
Abstract:
Traditional system on chip (SOC) designs offer integrated solutions to exigent design
tribulations in areas which necessitate outsized computation and restriction in certain area.
Because of the common bus architecture in SOC system, performance becomes sluggish
which limits the processing speed. The network on chip (NOC), due to their characteristics
such as scalability, flexibility, high bandwidth have been proposed as a valid approach to
meet communication requirements in SoC, where common bus architecture replaced by
network. The communication on network on chip is carried out by means of router, so for
implementing better NOC, the router should be efficiently design. In this paper we present
the design and verification of router for Mesh topology using Verilog HDL which supports
five parallel connections at the same time. It uses store and forward type of flow control and
FSM controller deterministic routing which improves the performance of router. Design unit
is targeted to Sparten 3E xc3s500e-4fg320 FPGA device and simulated in XILINX 13.1
Software.
22. Hummingbird: Ultra-Lightweight
Cryptography
for Resource-Constrained Devices
Abstract:
Due to the tight cost and constrained resources of high volume consumer devices such as
RFID tags, smart cards and wireless sensor nodes, it is desirable to employ lightweight and
specialized cryptographic primitives for many security applications. Motivated by the
design of the well-known Enigma machine, we present a novel ultralightweight
cryptographic algorithm, referred to as Hummingbird, for resource-constrained devices in
this paper. Hummingbird can provide the designed security with small block size and is
resistant to the most common attacks such as linear and differential cryptanalysis.
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8-bit microcontroller ATmega128L from Atmel and the 16-bit microcontroller MSP430 from
Texas Instruments, respectively. Our experimental results show that after a system
initialization phase Hummingbird can achieve up to 147 and 4:7 times faster throughput for
a size-optimized and a speed-optimized implementations, respectively, when compared to
the state-of-the-art ultra-lightweight block cipher PRESENT [10] on the similar platforms.
23. Enhanced FPGA Implementation of the
Hummingbird Cryptographic Algorithm
Abstract:
Hummingbird is a novel ultra-lightweight cryptographic algorithm aiming at resource-
constrained devices. In this work, an enhanced hardware implementation of the
Hummingbird cryptographic algorithm for low-cost Spartan-3 FPGA family is
described. The enhancement is due to the introduction of the coprocessor approach.
Note that all Virtex and Spartan FPGAs consist of many embedded memory blocks
and this work explores the use of these functional blocks. The intrinsic serialism of
the algorithm is exploited so that each step performs just one operation on the data.
We compare our performance results with other reported FPGA implementations of
the lightweight cryptographic algorithms. As far as author’s knowledge, this work
presents the smallest and the most efficient FPGA implementation of the
Hummingbird cryptographic algorithm.
24. FPGA-based High-Throughput and Area-
Efficient Architectures of the Hummingbird
Cryptography
Abstract:
Hummingbird is an ultra-lightweight cryptography targeted for resource-constrained devices
such as RFID tags,smart cards and sensor nodes. It has been implemented across
different target platforms. In this paper, we present two different FPGA-based
implementations for both throughput-oriented (TO) and area-oriented (AO) Hummingbird
Cryptography (HC). The throughput-oriented design is optimized for operation speed
while the area-oriented design consumes smaller area resource usage. Both proposed
designs have been implemented on a Xilinx low-cost Spartan-3 XC3S200 FPGA. When
compared with existed methods, the results from the proposed designs show that our
designs cost less FPGA slices while the same throughput can be obtained. The proposed
architectures are designed to best suit for adding customizable security to embedded
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25. Remedying the Hummingbird Cryptographic
Algorithm
Abstract:
Hummingbird is a recently proposed lightweight cryptographic algorithm for securing RFID
systems. In 2011, Saarinen reported a chosen-IV, chosen-message attack on Hummingbird
in FSE’11. In this paper, we propose a lightweight remedial scheme in response to the
Saarinen’s attack. The scheme is quite efficient both in software and hardware since
only two cyclic shifts are involved. Using this simple tweak, we can keep the compact
design of Hummingbird as well as enhance the security of Hummingbird. Readers are
welcome to attack the remedial Hummingbird.
26. Low Power Implementation of Hummingbird
Cryptographic Algorithm for RFID tag
Abstract:
Hummingbird algorithm is a newly proposed lightweight cryptographic algorithm targeted for
low-cost RFID tag. In this paper, we present a hardware implementation of this algorithm
using SMIC0.13_m CMOS process. Methods are used to reduce the unnecessary clock
toggling and data toggling to reduce dynamic power. Simulation results show that the total
area of our design is 14,735 _m2. It requires 16 clock cycles to encrypt 16-bit data (an
additional 69 clock cycles for initialization is needed), and consumes 1.08_w power for 1.2
V power supply at 100 KHz.
27. Merged Switch Allocation and Traversal in
Network-on-Chip Switches
Abstract:
Large systems-on-chip (SoCs) and chip multiprocessors (CMPs), incorporating tens to
hundreds of cores, create a significant integration challenge. Interconnecting a huge
amount of architectural modules in an efficient manner, calls for scalable solutions that
would offer both high throughput and low-latency communication. The switches are the
basic building blocks of such interconnection networks and their design critically affects the
performance of the whole system. So far, innovation in switch design relied mostly to
architecture-level solutions that took for granted the characteristics of the main building
blocks of the switch, such as the buffers, the routing logic, the arbiters, the crossbar’s
multiplexers, and without any further modifications, tried to reorganize them in a more
efficient way. Although such pure high-level design has produced highly efficient switches,
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remains to be investigated. In this paper, we try to partially answer this question by explicitly
targeting the design from scratch of new soft macros that can handle concurrently
arbitration and multiplexing and can be parameterized with the number of inputs, the data
width, and the priority selection policy. With the proposed macros, switch allocation,
which employs either standard round robin or more sophisticated arbitration policies with
significant network-throughput benefits, and switch traversal, can be performed
simultaneously in the same cycle, while still offering energy-delay efficient implementations.
28. MIHST: A Hardware Technique for
Embedded Microprocessor Functional On-Line
Self-Test
Abstract:
Testing processor cores embedded in systems-on-chip (SoCs) is a major concern for
industry nowadays. In this paper, we describe a novel solution which merges the SBST and
BIST principles. The technique we propose forces the processor to execute a compact
SBST-like test sequence by using a hardware module called MIcroprocessor Hardware
Self-Test (MIHST) unit, which is intended to be connected to the system bus like a normal
memory core, requesting no modification of the processor core internal structure.
The benefit of using the MIHST approach is manifold: while guaranteeing the same or
higher defect coverage of the traditional SBST approach, it reduces the time for test
execution, better preserves the processor core Intellectual Property (IP), does not require
the system memory to store the test program nor the test data, and can be easily adopted
for non-concurrent on-line testing, since it minimizes the required system resources. The
feasibility and effectiveness of the approach were evaluated on a couple of pipelined
processors.
29. A Practical NoC Design for Parallel DES
Computation
Abstract:
The Network-on-Chip (NoC) is considered to be a new SoC paradigm for the next
generation to support a large number of processing cores. The idea to combine NoC with
homogeneous processors constructing a Multi-Core NoC (MCNoC) is one way to achieve
high computational throughput for specific purpose like cryptography. Many researches use
cryptography standards for performance demonstration but rarely discuss a suitable NoC
for such standard. The goal of this paper is to present a practical methodology without
complicated virtual channel or pipeline technologies to provide high throughput
Data Encryption Standard (DES) computation on FPGA. The results point out that a mesh-
based NoC with packet and Processing Element (PE) design according to DES
specification can achieve great performance over previous works. Moreover, the
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the West-First routing offers the best performance among Turn-Model routings,
representatives of adaptive routing.
30. Design of a High Speed FPGA-Based
Classifier for Efficient Packet Classification
Abstract:
Packet classification is a vital and complicated task as the processing of packets should be
done at a specified line speed. In order to classify a packet as belonging to a particular flow
or set of flows, network nodes must perform a search over a set of filters using multiple
fields of the packet as the search key. Hence the matching of packets should be much
faster and simpler for quick processing and classification. A hardware accelerator or a
classifier has been proposed here using a modified version of the HyperCuts packet
classification algorithm. A new pre-cutting process has been implemented to reduce the
memory size to fit in an FPGA. This classifier can classify packets with high speed and
with a power consumption factor of less than 3W. This methodology removes the need for
floating point division to be performed by replacing the region compaction scheme of
HyperCuts by pre-cutting, while classifying the packets and concentrates on classifying the
packets at the core of the network.
31. Ultra-High Throughput Low-Power Packet
Classification
Abstract:
Packet classification is used by networking equipment to sort packets into flows by
comparing their headers to a list of rules, with packets placed in the flow determined by
the matched rule. A flow is used to decide a packet’s priority and the manner in which it is
processed. Packet classification is a difficult task due to the fact that all packets must be
processed at wire speed and rulesets can contain tens of thousands of rules. The
contribution of this paper is a hardware accelerator that can classify up to 433 million
packets per second when using rulesets containing tens of thousands of rules with a peak
power consumption of only 9.03 W when using a Stratix III fieldprogrammable
gate array (FPGA). The hardware accelerator uses a modified version of the HyperCuts
packet classification algorithm, with a new pre-cutting process used to reduce the
amount of memory needed to save the search structure for large rulesets so that it is small
enough to fit in the on-chip memory of an FPGA. The modified algorithm also removes the
need for floating point division to be performed when classifying a packet, allowing higher
clock speeds and thus obtaining higher throughputs.
32. A STUDY & VHDL IMPLEMENTATION OF
REEDSOLOMON ERROR CORRECTING
CODES

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Abstract:
In the present world, communication system which includes wireless, satellite and space
communication, reducing error is being critical. During message transferring the data might
get corrupted, so high bit error rate of the wireless communication system requires
employing to various coding methods for transferring the data. Channel coding for detection
and correction of error helps the communication systems design to reduce the noise effect
during transmission [1]. In this paper, Reed Solomon (RS) Encoder and Decoder and their
VHDL implementation using ModelSim tool is analyzed. RS codes are non- binary cyclic
error correcting block codes. Here redundant symbols are generated in the encoder using a
generator polynomial g(x) and added to the very end of the message symbols. Then RS
Decoder determines the locations and magnitudes of errors in the received polynomial. The
paper covers the RS encoding and decoding algorithm, simulation results.
33. Design and Implementation of Reed
Solomon Encoder on FPGA
Abstract:
Error correcting codes are used for detection and correction of errors in digital
communication system. Error correcting coding is based on appending of redundancy to the
information message according to a prescribed algorithm. Reed Solomon codes
are part of channel coding and withstand the effect of noise, interference and fading. Galois
field arithmetic is used for encoding and decoding reed Solomon codes. Galois field
multipliers and linear feedback shift registers are used for encoding the information data
block. The design of Reed Solomon encoder is complex because of use of LFSR and
Galois field arithmetic. The purpose of this paper is to design and implement Reed Solomon
(255, 239) encoder with optimized and lesser number of Galois Field multipliers. Symmetric
generator polynomial is used to reduce the number of GF multipliers. To increase the
capability toward error correction, convolution interleaving will be used with RS encoder.
The Design will be implemented on Xilinx FPGA Spartan II.
34. Instruction-based high-efficient
synchronization in a many-core Network-on-
Chip processor
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Parallelized applications running on many-core Network-on-Chip (NoC) processors may
consume a great part of execution time to synchronize threads mapped on multiple NoC
nodes, if synchronization for NoC processors is not carefully designed. In this paper, we
propose an instruction-based synchronization solution applied in a packet-switched many-
core NoC processor with 2D mesh grid topology. Return links are added into the on-chip
network to transmit acknowledgements of read requests, while a specific instruction SET is
designed as instruction set extension to the original pipeline to perform atomic read-modify-
write operations. To support various synchronization schemes, a hardware unit SYNC
containing globally addressable registers as shared variables is adopted to handle
synchronization requests from both local and remote NoC nodes. Additionally,
a FIFO located in the SYNC unit can store these synchronization requests to poll on shared
variables locally. Thus, network contention due to busy-wait synchronization algorithms is
greatly reduced. Synchronization schemes including spinlock, barrier, FIFO spinlock and
semaphore are implemented as inline assembly functions. Synthesis results under 55nm
process suggest low area and power overhead of the hardware design. Performance of
synchronization schemes are evaluated and are compared to results of conventional
methods and prior works, showing the proposed solution is of higher efficiency.
35. Argo: A Time-Elastic Time-Division-
Multiplexed NOC Using Asynchronous Routers
IEEE 2014
Abstract:
In this paper we explore the use of asynchronous routers in a time-division-multiplexed
(TDM) network-on-chip (NOC), Argo, that is being developed for a multi-processor platform
for hard real-time systems. TDM inherently requires a common time reference, and existing
TDM-based NOC designs are either synchronous or mesochronous. We use asynchronous
routers to achieve a simpler, smaller and more robust, self-timed design. Our design
exploits the fact that pipelined asynchronous circuits also behave as ripple FIFOs. Thus, it
avoids the need for explicit synchronization FIFOs between the routers. Argo has interesting
elastic timing properties that allow it to tolerate skew between the network interfaces (NIs).
The paper presents Argo NOC-architecture and provides a quantitative analysis of its ability
of absorb skew between the NIs. Using a signal transition graph model and realistic
component delays derived from a 65 nm CMOS implementation, a worst-case analysis
shows that a typical design can tolerate a skew of 1-5 cycles (depending on FIFO depths
and NI clock frequency). Simulation results of a 2 × 2 NOC confirm this.

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36. Efficient round-robin multicast scheduling for
input-queued switches
IEEE2014
Abstract:
The input-queued (IQ) switch architecture is favoured for designing multicast high-speed
switches because of its scalability and low implementation complexity. However, using the
first-in-first-out (FIFO) queueing discipline at each input of the switch may cause the head-
of-line (HOL) blocking problem. Using a separate queue for each output port at an input to
reduce the HOL blocking, that is, the virtual output queuing discipline, increases the
implementation complexity, which limits the scalability. Given the increasing link speed and
network capacity, a low-complexity yet efficient multicast scheduling algorithm is required
for next generation high-speed networks. This study proposes the novel efficient round-
robin multicast scheduling algorithm for IQ architectures and demonstrates how this
algorithm can be implemented as a hardware solution, which alleviates the multicast HOL
blocking issue by means of queue look-ahead. Simulation results demonstrate that
this FIFO-based IQ multicast architecture is able to achieve significant improvements in
terms of multicast latency requirements by searching through a small number of cells
beyond the HOL cells in the input queues. Furthermore, hardware synthesis results show
that the proposed algorithm can be very efficiently implemented in hardware to perform
multicast scheduling at very high speeds with only modest resource requirements.
37. An area- and power-efficient FIFO with
error-reduced data compression for image/video
processing
IEEE 2014
Abstract:
Filtering is a key component of many digital image/video processing algorithms. It often
requires FIFO to temporarily buffer the pixels data for later usage. The FIFO size is
consumption. This paper presents a technique named FIFO with error-reduced data
compression (FERDC) to reduce the FIFO size for various filters. The proposed FERDC
significantly reduces the area and power consumption while keeping the error metrics such
as mean square error (MSE) and peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR) in the acceptable range.

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Simulation results of a two dimensional wavelet filter shows that the proposed FERDC
technique achieves the FIFO size reduction of up to 44.44% with PSNR values larger than 39
dB, which leads to the reduction of at least 31.6% in the dynamic power and 44.44% in the
leakage power.
Applications
IEEE 2014
Abstract:
applications through FIFO with error-reduced data compression (FERDC) and near-
threshold operation. On architecture level, FERDC technique is proposed to reduce the size
and power consumption of the FIFO by utilizing the spatial correlation between neighboring
pixels and performing error-reduced data compression together with quantization to
minimize the mean square error (MSE). On circuit level, near-threshold operation is adopted
to achieve further power reduction while maintaining the required performance. To
demonstrate the proposed FIFO, it has been implemented using a 0.18-μm CMOS process
technology. The implementation covers different FIFO length, including 128, 256, 512, and
1024. The experimental results show that the proposed FIFO operating at 0.5 V and 28.57
MHz achieves up to 99%, 65%, and 34.91% reduction in dynamic power, leakage power,
and area, respectively, with a small MSE of 2.76, compared with the
conventional FIFO design. The proposed FIFO can be applied to a wide range of
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39. Design and Implementation of an On-Chip
Permutation Network for Multiprocessor System-
On-Chip
IEEE 2013
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133316
Abstract :
This paper presents the silicon-proven design of a novel on-chip network to support guaranteed traffic
permutation in multiprocessor system-on-chip applications. The proposed network employs a
Pipelined circuit-switching approach combined with a dynamic path-setup scheme under a multistage
network topology. The dynamic path-setup scheme enables runtime path arrangement for arbitrary
traffic permutations. The circuit-switching approach offers a guarantee of permuted data and its
compact overhead enables the benefit of stacking multiple networks. A 0.13- m CMOS test-chip
validates the feasibility and efficiency of the proposed design. Experimental results show that the
proposed on-chip network
40. UnSync: A Soft Error Resilient Redundant
Multicore Architecture
IEEE 2013
Abstract :
Reducing device dimensions, increasing transistor densities, and smaller timing windows, expose the
vulnerability of processors to soft errors induced by charge carrying particles. Since these factors are
only consequences of the inevitable advancement in processor technology, the industry has been forced
to improve reliability on general purpose Chip Multiprocessors (CMPs). With the availability of increased
hardware resources, redundancy based techniques are the most promising methods to eradicate soft
error failures in CMP systems. In this work, we propose a novel customizable and redundant CMP
architecture (UnSync) that utilizes hardware based detection mechanisms (most of which are readily
available in the processor), to reduce overheads during error free executions. In the presence of errors

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(which are infrequent), the always forward execution enabled recovery mechanism provides for
resilience in the system. The inherent nature of our architecture framework supports customization of
the redundancy, and thereby provides means to achieve possible performance-reliability trade-offs in
many-core systems. We provide a redundancy based soft error resilient CMP architecture for both
write-through and write-back cache configurations. We design a detailed RTL model of our UnSync
architecture and perform hardware synthesis to compare the hardware (power/area) overheads
incurred. We compare the same with those of the Reunion technique, a state-of-the-art redundant
multi-core architecture. We also perform cycle-accurate
simulations over a wide range of SPEC2000, and MiBench benchmarks to evaluate the performance
efficiency achieved over that of the Reunion architecture. Experimental results show that, our UnSync
architecture reduces power consumption by 34.5% and improves performance by up to 20% with 13.3%
less area overhead, when compared to Reunion architecture for the same level of reliability achieved.
41. FPGA based asynchronous pipelined multiplier
with intelligent delay controller
IEEE 2008
Abstract:
In this paper, a novel scheme is proposed for the implementation of FPGA based digital
systems using asynchronous pipelining technique. To control the asynchronous data flow
between stages, an intelligent controller is designed which decides the delay of each stage
depending upon the magnitude of the input data (Data Dependent Delay). The intelligent
controller has been designed using NIOS II soft core embedded processor in ALTERA
EP2C20F484C7 device. But, in this approach, the maximum operating frequency is limited
by the excess of logical elements consumed by the microcontroller and the sequential
execution of the C code. Hence, the function of NIOS processor to control asynchronous
data flow alone has been chosen and is implemented as an equivalent hardware
INTASYCON (INTelligent ASYnchronous CONtroller) using hardware description language
and the speed of the circuit was evaluated. To verify the efficacy of the proposed approach,
8times8 Braun array multiplier is implemented as external logic to the INTASYCON. The
INTASYCON processor calculates the completion time of each stage (based on the logic
depth) and accordingly activates the respective dual edge triggered flipflops to transfer data
from one stage to next stage. This approach consumes lower power and also avoids the
need for global clock signals and their consequences like skew problems.
42.VLSI implementation of visible watermarking for secure digital still camera
design

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marking+vlsi
Abstract:
Synopsys: Watermarking is the process that embeds data called a watermark into a
multimedia object for its copyright protection. The digital watermarks can be visible
to a viewer on careful inspection or completely invisible and cannot be easily
recovered without an appropriate decoding mechanism. Digital image watermarking is
a computationally intensive task and can be speeded up significantly by
implementing in hardware. In this work, we describe a new VLSI architecture for
implementing two different visible watermarking schemes for images. The proposed
hardware can insert on-the-fly either one or both watermarks into an image
depending on the application requirement. The proposed circuit can be integrated
into any existing digital still camera framework. First, separate architectures are
derived for the two watermarking schemes and then integrated into a unified
architecture. A prototype CMOS VLSI chip was designed and verified implementing
the proposed architecture and reported in this paper. To our knowledge, this is the
first VLSI architecture for implementing visible watermarkingschemes.
43. Analysis and FPGA implementation of image
restoration under resource constraints
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Abstract:
Programmable logic is emerging as an attractive solution for many digital signal processing
applications. In this work, we have investigated issues arising due to the resource constraints of
FPGA-based systems. Using an iterative image restoration algorithm as an example we have
shown how to manipulate the original algorithm to suit it to an FPGA implementation.
Consequences of such manipulations have been estimated, such as loss of quality in the output
image. We also present performance results from an actual implementation on a Xilinx FPGA.
Our experiments demonstrate that, for different criteria, such as result quality or speed, the
best implementation is different as well.
44. Design of high speed low power Viterbi decoder for
TCM system

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IEEE 2013
Abstract :
High-speed, low-power design of Viterbi decoders for trellis coded modulation (TCM) systems is
presented in this paper. It is well known that the Viterbi decoder (VD) is the dominant module
determining the overall power consumption of TCM decoders. We propose a pre-computation
architecture incorporated with -algorithm for VD, which can effectively reduce the power consumption
without degrading the decoding speed much. A general solution to derive the optimal pre-computation
steps is also given in the paper. Implementation result of a VD for a rate-3/4 convolution code used in a
TCM system shows that compared with the full trellis VD, the precomputation architecture reduces the
power consumption by as much as 70% without performance loss, while the degradation in clock speed
is negligible.
45.CORDIC Designs for Fixed Angle of Rotation
IEEE 2013
Abstract:
Rotation of vectors through fixed and known angles has wide applications in robotics, digital signal
processing, graphics, games, and animation. But, we do not find any optimized coordinate rotation
digital computer (CORDIC) design for vector-rotation through specific angles. Therefore, in this paper,
we present optimization schemes and CORDIC circuits for fixed and known rotations with different
levels of accuracy. For reducing the area- and time-complexities, we have proposed a hardwired pre-
shifting scheme in barrel-shifters of the proposed circuits. Two dedicated CORDIC cells are proposed for
the fixed-angle rotations. In one of those cells, micro-rotations and scaling are interleaved, and in the
other they are implemented in two separate stages. Pipelined schemes are suggested further for
cascading dedicated single-rotation units and bi-rotation CORDIC units for
high-throughput and reduced latency implementations. We have obtained the optimized set of micro-
rotations for fixed and known angles. The optimized scale-factors are also derived and dedicated shift-
add circuits are designed to implement the scaling. The fixed-point mean-squared-error of the proposed
CORDIC circuit is analyzed statistically, and strategies for reducing the error
are given. We have synthesized the proposed CORDIC cells by Synopsys Design Compiler using TSMC 90-
nm library, and shown that the proposed designs offer higher throughput, less latency and less area-
delay product than the reference CORDIC design for fixed and known angles of rotation. We find similar
results of synthesis for different Xilinx field-programmable gate-array platforms.
46. A 1.1 GHz 8B/10B encoder and decoder
design

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IEEE 2010
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org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D5604943
Abstract:
This paper presents a design of 8B/10B encoder and decoder with a new architecture. The
proposed 8B/10B encoder and decoder are implemented based on pipeline and parallel
processing. The decoder implements an error-undiffusing function. This 8B/10B encoder
and decoder can be used in the high-speed interconnection between chips. After being
synthesized using CMOS 90nm process, the proposed encoder and decoder achieves the
operating frequency over 1.1GHz and occupies the chip area of 1798μm2
and 1261μm2
.
They each consume 1.8mW and 1.12mW power.
47. An 8B/10B encoder with a modified coding
table
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IEEE 2009
Abstract:
This paper presents a design of 8B/10B encoder with a modified coding table. The
proposed encoder has been designed based on a reduced coding table with a modified
disparity control block. After being synthesized using CMOS 0.18 mum process, the
proposed encoder shows the operating frequency of 343 MHz and occupies the chip area of
1886 mum2
with 189 logic gates. It consumes 2.74 mW power. Compared to conventional
approaches, the operating frequency is improved by 25.6% and chip area is decreased to
43%.
48. Configurable Pipelined Gabor Filter
implementation for fingerprint image
enhancement

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IEEE 2010
Abstract:
In this paper a novel Gabor filter hardware scheme for the fingerprint image enhancement is presented.
For each pixel of the image, we use accurate local frequency and orientation to generate the
corresponding convolution kernel and thus achieve a better enhancement effect. And
Compared to the previous works, our design yields a higher throughput which is due to the pipeline
techniques. Moreover the proposed design can be reconfigured to fulfill the different requirements.
Evaluation results demonstrate that, when convolution kernel size is 11h11, our design can achieve
2MPixels/s @ 250MHz, and equivalent gate count is 63.8k at SMIC 0.13um worst process corner.
Indeed, it’s very suitable for the embedded fingerprint recognition system.
49. Fingerprint Verification Using Gabor Co-
occurrence Features
IEEE2010
Abstract:
The biometric techniques based on face, iris and fingerprints are used in order to provide strong
security. Out of which, Fingerprint identification effects far more positive identifications of
persons worldwide than any other human identification procedure. The most widely used
minutia based techniques find difficulty in matching the two finger prints with unregistered
minutia points and also it is difficult to extract complete ridge structures
in finger prints automatically. This paper presents an efficient Gabor Wavelet Transform (GWT)
based algorithm for finger print verification for personal identification. This GWT based method
provides the local and global information in fixed length fingercode. The finger print matching is
done by means of finding the Euclidean distance between the two corresponding Finger codes
and hence matching is extremely fast. Key words: Biometrics, FingerCode, fingerprint
classification, Gabor filters
50. Finger-knuckle-print: A new biometric
identifier
IEEE 2009
Abstract:
This paper presents a new biometric identifier, namely finger-knuckle-print (FKP), for personal
identity authentication. First a specific data acquisition device is constructed to capture the FKP
images, and then an efficient FKP recognition algorithm is presented to process the acquired

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data. The local convex direction map of the FKP image is extracted, based on which a coordinate
system is defined to align the images and a region of interest (ROI) is cropped for feature
extraction. A competitive coding scheme, which uses 2D Gabor filters to extract the image local
orientation information, is employed to extract and represent the FKP features. When matching,
the angular distance is used to measure the similarity between two competitive code maps. An
FKP database was established to examine the performance of the proposed system, and the
experimental results demonstrated the efficiency and effectiveness of this new biometric
characteristic
51. MIHST: A Hardware Technique for
Embedded Microprocessor Functional On-Line
Self-Test
IEEE 2013
Abstract
Testing processor cores embedded in Systems-onChip (SoCs) is a major concern for industry nowadays.
In this paper, we describe a novel solution which merges the SBST and BIST principles. The technique we
propose forces the processor to execute a compact SBST-like test sequence by
using a hardware module called MIcroprocessor Hardware SelfTest(MIHST) unit, which is intended to be
connected to the system bus like a normal memory core, requesting no modification of the processor
core internal structure. The benefit of using the MIHST approach is manifold: while
guaranteeing the same or higher defect coverage of the traditional SBST approach, it reduces the time
for test execution, better preserves the processor core Intellectual Property (IP), does not require the
system memory to store the test program nor the test data, and can be easily adopted for non-
concurrent on-line testing, since it minimizes the required system resources. The feasibility and
effectiveness of the approach were evaluated on a couple of pipelined processors.
52. Area and time efficient hardwired pre -
shifted bi-rotation CORDIC design
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This paper deals with an optimization schemes and CORDIC circuit for fixed and known rotations
different level of accuracy. For reducing area and time complexity. This paper proposed hard wired,
pre-shifting technique for barrel-shifter of proposed circuit. Here two proposed CORDIC cells are
used to the fixed angle rotations. This cells going to implement the micro rotations and scaling
interleaved, it's implemented the two stages. The cascade proposed the bi-rotation CORDIC for
higher throughput and reduced latency implementation. This method proposed optimized set of
micro rotations for fixed and known angles. Shift and add circuits are used to implement the scaling
factor. Fixed means square error used for analysis and reduced the error in this method. Synthesized
the proposed CORDIC cells by Synopsys Design Compiler using TSMC 90-NM library, and shown that
the proposed designs offer higher throughput, less latency and less area-delay product than the
reference CORDIC design for fixed and known angles of rotation. We find similar results of synthesis
of different Xilinx field-programmable gate-array platforms.
53. Fixed-Point Analysis and Parameter
Selections of MSR-CORDIC With
Applications to FFT Designs
IEEE 2012
Abstract:
Mixed-scaling-rotation (MSR) coordinate rotation digital computer (CORDIC) is an attractive approach to
synthesizing complex rotators. This paper presents the fixed-point error analysis and parameter
selections of MSR-CORDIC with applications to the fast Fourier transform (FFT). First, the fixed-point
mean squared error of the MSR-CORDIC is analyzed by considering both the angle approximation error
and signal round-off error incurred in the finite precision arithmetic. The signal to quantization noise
ratio (SQNR) of the output of the FFT synthesized using MSR-CORDIC is thereafter estimated. Based on
these analyses, two different parameter selection algorithms of MSR-CORDIC are proposed for general
and dedicated MSR-CORDIC structures. The proposed algorithms minimize the number of adders and
word-length when the SQNR of the FFT output is constrained. Design examples show that the
FFT designed by the proposed method exhibits a lower hardware complexity than existing methods.
54. Scalable pipelined CORDIC architecture
design and implementation in FPGA
IEEE 2009
Abstract:
In Digital Signal Processing, trigonometry and complex multiplications are used in many signal
equations, such as synchronization and equalization. Therefore, a fast and an efficient method to
calculate trigonometry and complex multiplications are required. Coordinate Rotation Digital
Computer (CORDIC) is trigonometric algorithm that is used to transforming data from rectangular to
polar and vice versa. CORDIC also can be used other to compute several trigonometry functions,

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either directly or indirectly. The proposed CORDIC design is based on Pipeline datapath Architecture.
By using pipeline architecture, the design is able to calculate continuous input, has high throughput,
and doesn't need ROM or registers to save constant angle iteration of CORDIC. The design process is
started by modelling CORDIC function, design datapath and control unit, coding to hardware
description language using Verilog HDL, synthesized using Quartus II Version 7.2 and implemented
on ALTERA Cyclone II DE2 EP2C35F672C6N FPGA. Synthesis result shows that the design is able to
work at 81.31 MHz.
55. Design and evaluation of a floating-point
division operator based on CORDIC
algorithm
IEEE 2012
Abstract:
Design and evaluation of a CORDIC (COordinate Rotation DIgital Computer) algorithm for a floating-
point division operation is presented in this paper. In general, division operation based
on CORDICalgorithm has a limitation in term of the range of inputs that can be processed by
the CORDIC machine to give proper convergence and precise division operation result. A hardware
architecture of CORDICalgorithm capable of processing broader input ranges is implemented and
presented in this paper by using a pre-processing and a post-processing stage. The performance as
well as the calculation error statistics over exhaustive sets of input tests are evaluated. The results
show that the CORDICalgorithm can be well-convergence and gives precise division operation results
with broader input ranges. The proposed hardware architecture is modeled in VHDL and synthesized
on a CMOS standard-cell technology and a FPGA device, resulting 1 GFlops on the CMOS and
210.812 MFlops on the FPGA device.
56. : Energy Efficient Synchronization for
Embedded Multicore Systems
IEEE 2013
Abstract:
Data synchronization among multiple cores has been one of the critical issues which must be resolved in
order to optimize the parallelism of multicore architectures. Data synchronization schemes can be
classified as lock-based methods (“pessimistic”) and lock-free methods (“optimistic”). However, none of
these methods consider the nature of embedded systems which have demanding and sometimes
conflicting requirements not only for high performance but also for low power consumption. As an
answer to these problems, we proposeC-Lock, an energy- and performance-efficient data

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synchronization method for multicore embedded systems. C-Lockachieves balanced energy- and
performance-efficiency by combining the advantages of lock-based methods and transactional memory
(TM) approaches; inC-Lock, the core is blocked only when true conflicts exist (advantage of TM), while
avoiding roll-back operations which can cause huge overhead with regard to both performance and
energy (this is an advantage of locks). Also, in order
to save more energy, C-Lockdisables the clocks of the cores which are blocked for the access to the
shared data until the shared data become available. We compared ourC-Lockapproach against
traditional locks and transactional memory systems, and found thatC-Lockcan reduce the energy-delay
product by up to 1.94 times and 13.78 times compared to the baseline and TM, respectively.
57. ViChaR: A Dynamic Virtual Channel
Regulator for Network-on-Chip Routers
IEEE 2009
Abstract:
The advent of deep sub-micron technology has recently highlighted the criticality of the on-
chipinterconnects. As diminishing feature sizes have led to increases in global wiring delays, network-on-
chip (NoC) architectures are viewed as a possible solution to the wiring challenge and have recently
crystallized into a significant research thrust. Both NoC performance and energy budget depend heavily
on the routers' buffer resources. This paper introduces a novel unified buffer structure, called the
dynamic virtual channel regulator (ViChaR), which dynamically allocates virtual channels (VC) and buffer
resources according to network traffic conditions. ViChaR maximizes throughput by dispensing a
variable number of VCs on demand. Simulation results using a cycle-accurate simulator show a
performance increase of 25% on average over an equal-size generic router buffer, or similar
performance using a 50% smaller buffer. ViChaR's ability to provide similar performance with half the
buffer size of a generic router is of paramount importance, since this can yield total area and power
savings of 30% and 34%, respectively, based on synthesized designs in 90 nm technology
58. Virtualizing Virtual Channels for Increased
Network-on-Chip Robustness and
Upgradeability
IEEE 2012
Abstract:
The Network-on-Chip (NoC) router buffers are instrumental in the overall operation of Chip Multi-
Processors (CMP), because they facilitate the creation of Virtual Channels (VC). Both the NoC routing

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algorithm and the CMP's cache coherence protocol rely on the presence of VCs within the NoC for
correct functionality. In this article, we introduce a novel concept that completely decouples the number
of supported VCs from the number of VC buffers physically present in the
design. Virtual ChannelRenaming enables the virtualization of existing virtual channels, in order to
support an arbitrarily large number of VCs. Hence, the CMP can (a) withstand the presence of faulty VCs,
and (b) accommodate routing algorithms and/or coherence protocols with disparate VC requirements.
The proposed VC Renamer architecture incurs minimal hardware overhead to existing NoC designs and
is shown to exhibit excellent performance without affecting the router's critical path.
59. Low-Cost Self-Test Techniques for Small
RAMs in SOCs Using Enhanced IEEE 1500
Test Wrappers
IEEE 2012
Abstract :
This paper proposes an enhanced IEEE 1500 test wrapper to support the testing and diagnosis of the
single-port or multi-port RAM core attached to the enhanced IEEE 1500 test wrapper without incurring
large area overhead to small memories. Effective test time reduction techniques for the proposed test
scheme are also proposed. Simulation results show that the additional area cost for implementing the
enhanced IEEE 1500 test wrapper is only about 0.58% for a 64 K-bit single-port RAM and only 0.57% for
a 64 K-bit two-port RAM
60. Application-Aware Topology Reconfiguration
for On-Chip Networks
IEEE 2010
Abstract:
In this paper, we present a reconfigurable architecture for networks-on-chip (NoC) on which arbitrary
application-specific topologies can be implemented. When a new application starts, the proposed NoC
tailors its topology to the application traffic pattern by changing the inter-router connections to some
predefined configuration corresponding to the application. It addresses one of the main drawbacks of
the existing application-specific NoC optimization methods, i.e., optimization of NoCs based on the
traffic pattern of a single application. Supporting multiple applications is a critical feature of an NoC
when several different applications are integrated into a single modern and complex multicore system-

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on-chip or chip multiprocessor. The proposed reconfigurable NoC architecture supports multiple
applications by appropriately configuring itself to a topology that matches the traffic pattern of the
currently running application. This paper first introduces the proposed reconfigurable topology and then
addresses the problems of core to network mapping and topology exploration. Further on, we evaluate
the impact of different architectural attributes on the performance of the proposed NoC. Evaluations
consider network latency, power consumption, and area complexity.
61. Smart Reliable Network-on-Chip
IEEE 2014
Abstract :
In this paper, we present a new network-on-chip (NoC) that handles accurate localizations of the faulty
parts of the NoC. The proposed NoC is based on new error detection mechanisms suitable for dynamic
NoCs, where the number and position of processor elements or faulty blocks vary during runtime.
Indeed, we propose online detection of data packet and adaptive routing algorithm errors. Both
presented mechanisms are able to distinguish permanent and transient errors and localize accurately
the position of the faulty blocks (data bus, input port, output port) in the NoC routers, while preserving
the throughput, the network load, and the data packet latency. We provide localization capacity analysis
of the presented mechanisms, NoC performance evaluations, and field-programmable gate array
synthesis
62. Headfirst sliding routing: A time-based
routing scheme for bus-NoC hybrid 3-D
architecture
IEEE 2013
Abstract :
A contact-less approach that connects chips in vertical dimension has a great potential to
customize components in 3-D chip multiprocessors (CMPs), assuming card-style components
inserted to a single cartridge communicate each other wirelessly using inductive-coupling
technology. To simplify the vertical communication interfaces, static Time Division Multiple
Access (TDMA) is used for the vertical broadcast buses, while arbitrary or customized topologies
can be used for intra-chip networks. In this paper, we propose the Headfirst sliding routing
scheme to overcome the simple static TDMA-based vertical buses. Each vertical bus grants a
communication time-slot for different chips at the same time periodically, which means these
buses work with different phases. Depending on the current time, packets are routed toward
the best vertical bus (elevator) just before the elevator acquires its communication time-slot.

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63. An Area Effective Parity-Based Fault
Detection Technique for FPGAs
IEEE 2013
Abstract:
Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are highly successful platforms in a variety of niches, such as
telecommunications and automotive applications. Their usage in critical systems for radiation
environments, however, still depends on techniques able to provide increased reliability, since such
devices are susceptible to single event upsets that may alter the specified functionality. Classical
approaches such as duplication with comparison and triple modular redundancy are powerful in terms
of fault detection and/or correction capabilities, and can be easily applied to a variety of circuits, but
come with heavy area overheads. In this work we propose a parity-based concurrent error detection
technique able to provide single error detection for combinational logic in FPGAs with reduced area
when compared to the classical approaches. The proposed technique is automatically applied to a set of
benchmark circuits and presents an average area reduction of 24.4% when compared to duplication
with comparison, with no performance overhead.
64. Vendor agnostic, high performance, double
precision Floating Point division for FPGAs
IEEE 2013
Abstract:
Double precision Floating Point (FP) arithmetic operations are widely used in many applications such as
image and signal processing and scientific computing. Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are a
popular platform for accelerating such applications due to their relative high performance, flexibility and
low power consumption compared to general purpose processors and GPUs. Increasingly scientists are
interested in double precision FP operations implemented on FPGAs. FP division and square root are
much more difficult to implement than addition and multiplication. In this paper we focus on a
fast divider design for double precision floating point that makes efficient use of FPGA resources
including embedded multipliers. The design is table based; we compare it to iterative and digit
recurrence implementations. Our division implementation targets performance with balanced latency
and high clock frequency. Our design has been implemented on both Xilinx and Altera FPGAs. The table
based double precision floating point divider provides a good tradeoff between area and performance
and produces good results when targeting both Xilinx and Altera FPGAs
65. Floating-Point Divider Design for FPGAs

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IEEE 2007
Abstract:
Growth in floating-point applications for field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) has made it critical
tooptimize floating-point units for FPGA technology. The divider is of particular interest because
thedesign space is large and divider usage in applications varies widely. Obtaining the right balance
between clock speed, latency, throughput, and area in FPGAs can be challenging. The designspresented
here cover a range of performance, throughput, and area constraints. On a Xilinx Virtex4-11FPGA, the
range includes 250-MHz IEEE compliant double precision divides that are fully pipelined to 187-MHz
iterative cores. Similarly, area requirements range from 4100 slices down to a mere 334 slices
66. Split-Path Fused Floating Point Multiply
Accumulate (FPMAC)
IEEE 2007
Abstract:
Floating point multiply-accumulate (FPMAC) unitis the backbone of modern processors and is a key
circuit determining the frequency, power and area of microprocessors. FPMAC unit is used extensively in
contemporary client microprocessors, further proliferated with ISA support for instructions like AVX and
SSE and also extensively used in server processors employed for engineering and scientific applications.
Consequently design of FPMAC is of vital consideration since it dominates the power and performance
tradeoff decisions in such systems. In this work we demonstrate a novel FPMAC designwhich focuses on
optimal computations in the critical path and therefore making it the fastest FPMACdesign as of today in
literature. The design is based on the premise of isolating and optimizing the critical path computation in
FPMAC operation. In this work we have three key innovations to create a novel double precision FPMAC
with least ever gate stages in the timing critical path: a) Splitting near and far paths based on the
exponent difference (d=Exy-Ez = {-2, -1, 0, 1} is near path and the rest is far path), b) Early injection of
the accumulate add for near path into the Wallace tree for eliminating a 3:2compressor from near path
critical logic, exploiting the small alignment shifts in near path and sparse Wallace tree for 53 bit
mantissa multiplication, c) Combined round and accumulate add for eliminating the completion adder
from multiplier giving both timing and power benefits. Our design by premise of splitting consumes
lesser power for each operation where only the required logic for each case is switching. Splitting the
paths also provides tremendous opportunities for clock or power gating the unused portion (nearly 15-
20%) of the logic gates purely based on the exponent difference signals. We also demonstrate the
support for all rounding modes to adhere to IEEE standard for double precisionFPMAC which is critical
for employment of this design in contemporary process- r families. The
demonstrated design outperforms the best known silicon implementation of IBM Power6 [6] by 14% in
timing while having similar area and giving additional power benefits due to split handling. The design is
also compared to best known timing design from Lang et al. [5] and outperforms it by 7% while being
30% smaller in area than it.

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67. FPGA Based High Performance Double-
Precision Matrix Multiplication
IEEE 2009
Abstract:
We present two designs (I and II) for IEEE 754 double precision floating point matrix multiplication, an
important kernel in many tile-based BLAS algorithms, optimized for implementation on high-end FPGAs.
The designs, both based on the rank-1 update scheme, can handle arbitrary matrix sizes, and are able to
sustain their peak performance except during an initial latency period. Through these designs, the trade-
offs involved in terms of local-memory and bandwidth for an FPGA implementation are demonstrated
and an analysis is presented for the optimal choice of design parameters. The designs, implemented on
a Virtex-5 SX240T FPGA, scale gracefully from 1 to 40 processing elements(PEs) with a less than 1%
degradation in the design frequency of 373 MHz. With 40 PEs and a design speed of 373 MHz, a
sustained performance of 29.8 GFLOPS is possible with a bandwidth requirement of 750 MB/s
for design-II and 5.9 GB/s for design-I.
68. An FPGA Implementation of a Fully Verified
Double Precision IEEE Floating-Point Adder
IEEE 2007
Abstract:
We report on the full gate-level verification and FPGA implementation of a
highly optimized doubleprecision IEEE floating-point adder. The proposed adder design incorporates
many optimizations like a nonstandard separation into two paths, a simple rounding algorithm,
unification of rounding cases for addition and subtraction, sign-magnitude computation of a difference
based on one's complement subtraction, compound adders, and fast circuits for approximate counting
of leading zeros from borrow-save representation. We formally verify a gate-level specification of the
algorithm using theorem proving techniques in PVS. The PVS specification was then used to
automatically generate a gate-levelimplementation that was synthesized using Altera Quartus II. The
resulting implementation has a total latency of 13.6 ns on an Altera Stratix II device.We have partitioned
the design into a 2 stage pipeline running at a frequency of 147 Mhz.
69. Low-power radix-8 divider
IEEE 2008
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This work describes the design of a double-precision radix-8 divider. Low-power techniques are applied
in the design of the unit, and energy-delay tradeoffs considered. The energy dissipation in the divider
can be reduced by up to 70% with respect to a standard implementation not optimized for energy,
without penalizing the latency. The radix-8 divider is compared with the one obtained by overlapping
three radix-2 stages and with a radix-4 divider. Results show that the latency of our divider is similar to
that of the divider with overlapped stages, but the area is smaller. The speed-up of the radix-8 over the
radix-4 is about 20% and the energy dissipated to complete a division is almost the same, although the
area of the radix-8 is 50% larger
70. Design and evaluation of a floating-point
division operator based on CORDIC algorithm
IEEE 2008
Abstract:
Design and evaluation of a CORDIC (COordinate Rotation DIgital Computer) algorithm for a floating-
point division operation is presented in this paper. In general, division operation based
on CORDICalgorithm has a limitation in term of the range of inputs that can be processed by
the CORDIC machine to give proper convergence and precise division operation result. A hardware
architecture of CORDICalgorithm capable of processing broader input ranges is implemented and
presented in this paper by using a pre-processing and a post-processing stage. The performance as well
as the calculation error statistics over exhaustive sets of input tests are evaluated. The results show that
the CORDICalgorithm can be well-convergence and gives precise division operation results with broader
input ranges. The proposed hardware architecture is modeled in VHDL and synthesized on a CMOS
standard-cell technology and a FPGA device, resulting 1 GFlops on the CMOS and 210.812 MFlops on the
FPGA device.
71. Method of modeling analog circuits in verilog
for mixed-signal design simulations
IEEE 2013
Abstract :
Simulating mixed-signal circuit designs needs to bridge between the analog and digital circuit domains.
Preserving the behavior and structure of the analog and digital parts of the circuit is possible with
Hardware Description Languages (HDLs), such as Verilog-AMS. However, the analog and digital parts of
the design are typically developed in simulation environments tailored to either the analog or digital
design flow requirements. For digital circuit development, Verilog is a popular choice of HDL. Including
the analog part of the mixed-signal circuit in the Verilog description without the AMS extension requires

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a modeling strategy that can preserve fundamental analog behavior. In this contribution we describe a
method of modeling analog sub-circuits in Verilog. The higher-level analog circuit is modeled by
netlisting the connectivity of sub-circuits based on a schematic. This method of modeling and
hierarchical netlisting is scalable and demonstrated for the example of an Analog-to-Digital Converter
(ADC). We can simulate the digital design interacting with the analog circuit on any standard Verilog
simulator, thus, (proprietary) language extensions are not required.
72. A Behavior Model Based on Verilog-A for 14
Bits 200MHz Current-Steering DAC
IEEE 2012
Abstract :
In this paper a behavioral based on Verilog-A for segmented current-steering DAC is presented. Much
attention was paid to the main circuits such as bandgap reference, current cells, switch array and other
relative digital circuits. In this model, non-ideal factors including mismatch of current source transistors
and switch glitch are considered, and it aims to model the DAC as accurate as possible. At last the
simulation data is analyzed by 8192 points FFT.
73. A 0.18µm pipelined 8B10B encoder for a
high-speed SerDes
IEEE 2010
Abstract :
This paper presented a pipelined 8B10B encoder for a high speed SerDes. To overcome the drawback of
the speed limitation due to the conventional architecture, a pipelined encoding architecture is
proposed. By splitting the longer path into two shorter paths with registers, the delay of the critical path
is shortened greatly. Based on the pipelined architecture, a high-speed 8B10B encoder is implemented
using 0.18 μm CMOS technology and standard cell library. Post-simulation results show that
theencoder can work up to the rate of 7Gbps with a core are of 76.86 μm × 76.86 μm and the power
consumption is 5.0317 mW under a 1.8V power supply voltage.

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74. An 8B/10B encoder with a modified coding
table
IEEE 2008
Abstract :
This paper presents a design of 8B/10B encoder with a modified coding table. The
proposed encoder has been designed based on a reduced coding table with a modified
disparity control block. After being synthesized using CMOS 0.18 mum process, the
proposed encoder shows the operating frequency of 343 MHz and occupies the chip area of
1886 mum2
with 189 logic gates. It consumes 2.74 mW power. Compared to conventional
approaches, the operating frequency is improved by 25.6% and chip area is decreased to
43%.
Applications
IEEE2010
Abstract:
applications through FIFO with error-reduced data compression (FERDC) and near-threshold
operation. On architecture level, FERDC technique is proposed to reduce the size and
power consumption of the FIFO by utilizing the spatial correlation between neighboring pixels
and performing error-reduced data compression together with quantization to minimize the
mean square error (MSE). On circuit level, near-threshold operation is adopted to achieve
further power reduction while maintaining the required performance. To demonstrate the
proposed FIFO, it has been implemented using a 0.18-μm CMOS process technology. The
implementation covers different FIFO length, including 128, 256, 512, and 1024. The
experimental results show that the proposed FIFO operating at 0.5 V and 28.57 MHz
achieves up to 99%, 65%, and 34.91% reduction in dynamic power, leakage power, and
area, respectively, with a small MSE of 2.76, compared with the conventional FIFO design.

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The proposed FIFO can be applied to a wide range of image/video signal processing
applications to achieve high area and energy efficiency.
76. Optimum packet size of voice packet in the
FIFO adversarial queuing model
IEEE 2007
Abstract:
First-in-First-out (FIFO) is one of the simplest queuing policies used to provide best effort
services in packet-switched network. However, the performance of FIFO is really crucial
when it related to stability i.e. question of whether there is a bound on the total size of
packets in the network at all times. In this study, our main objective is to find the optimum
packet size of voice packet when using FIFO scheduling policy. Our approach is based on
adversarial generation of packets so that positive results are more robust in that they do not
depend on particular probabilistic assumptions about the input sequences. In this paper, we
proposed the FIFO scheduling technique that uses adversarial queuing model to find the
optimum packet size of voice packet in FIFO network. Although the simulation results show
that the average packet loss is increase when the arrival packet is increased, the average
packet delay is improved as compared to FIFO M/M/1 technique, studied by (Phalgun, 2003).
This algorithm can be utilized for transmitting voice packet over IP.
77. A dynamic priority arbiter for Network-on-
Chip
IEEE 2009
Abstract:
For some customized network-on-chip, the communication requirements among IP cores are
usually non-uniform, which make the loads of input ports in one router are not balance. In
order to improve the performance of network-on-chip, we proposed a dynamic priority arbiter.
The arbiter detect the loads of input ports in every clock cycle and adjust the priority of each

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input port dynamically, then authorize one input ports to transfer data based on lottery
mechanism. Under the uniform traffic mode in network-on-chip and non-uniform traffic mode
such as an application of MPEG4 decoder in network-on-chip, we compared the
performance between network-on-chip based on round-robin arbiter and network-on-
chipbased on dynamic priority arbiter proposed in this paper. The result shows: under non-
uniform traffic mode, the dynamic priority arbiter can improve the communication
performance of network-on-chip and reduce the requirement of buffer resource
in network interface.
78. Low-power network-on-chip for high-
performance SoC design
IEEE 2009
Abstract:
An energy-efficient network-on-chip (NoC) is presented for possible application to high-performance
system-on-chip (SoC) design. It incorporates heterogeneous intellectual properties (IPs) such as multiple
RISCs and SRAMs, a reconfigurable logic array, an off-chip gateway, and a 1.6-GHz phase-locked loop
(PLL). Its hierarchically-star-connected on-chip network provides the integrated IPs, which operate at
different clock frequencies, with packet-switched serial-communication infrastructure. Various low-
power techniques such as low-swing signaling, partially activated crossbar, serial link coding, and clock
frequency scaling are devised, and applied to achieve the power-efficient on-chipcommunications. The 5
/spl times/5 mm/sup 2/ chip containing all the above features is fabricated by 0.18-/spl mu/m CMOS
process and successfully measured and demonstrated on a system evaluation board where multimedia
applications run. The fabricated chip can deliver 11.2-GB/s aggregated bandwidth at 1.6-GHz signaling
frequency. The chip consumes 160 mW and the on-chip networkdissipates less than 51 mW.
79. A new mode of operation for arbiter PUF to
improve uniqueness on FPGA
IEEE 2014
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Arbiter-based Physically Unclonable Function (PUF) is one kind of the delay-based PUFs that use the
time difference of two delay-line signals. One of the previous work suggests that Arbiter PUFs
implemented on Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGAs generate responses with almost no difference, i.e. with low
uniqueness. In order to overcome this problem, Double Arbiter PUF was proposed, which is based on a
novel technique for generating responses with high uniqueness from duplicated Arbiter PUFs on FPGAs.
It needs the same costs as 2-XOR Arbiter PUF that XORs outputs of two Arbiter PUFs. Double Arbiter PUF
is different from 2-XOR Arbiter PUF in terms of mode of operation for Arbiter PUF: the wire assignment
between an arbiter and output signals from the final selectors located just before the arbiter. In this
paper, we evaluate these PUFs as for uniqueness, randomness, and steadiness. We consider finding a
new mode of operation for Arbiter PUF that can be realized on FPGA. In order to improve the
uniqueness of responses, we propose 3-1 Double Arbiter PUF that has another duplicatedArbiter PUF,
i.e. having 3 Arbiter PUFs and output 1-bit response. We compare 3-1 Double Arbiter PUF to 3-
XOR Arbiter PUF according to the uniqueness, randomness, and steadiness, and show the difference
between these PUFs by considering the mode of operation for Arbiter PUF. From our experimental
results, the uniqueness of responses from 3-1 Double Arbiter PUF is approximately 50%, which is better
than that from 3-XOR Arbiter PUF. We show that we can improve the uniqueness by using a new mode
of operation for Arbiter PUF.
80. The design and implementation of arbiters
for Network-on-chips
IEEE 2010
Abstract:
Round robin arbiter and matrix arbiter mechanism are widely used in Network-on-chips. These two
mechanisms are implemented in this paper. The performances in 2D-mesh topology are tested in a
FPGA platform. The resource consumption and throughput between Round-robin arbiter and Matrix-
arbiter are compared. Through the experiment result, we found that the Matrix-arbiter has higher
throughput than the Round-robin arbiter. However the Round-robin arbiter can save much more
resources than Matrix arbiter. Thus a tradeoff between the two mechanisms should be considered when
design networks-on-chip arbiters.
81. Round-robin Arbiter Design and Generation
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For some customized network-on-chip, the communication requirements among IP cores are usually
non-uniform, which make the loads of input ports in one router are not balance. In order to improve the
performance of network-on-chip, we proposed a dynamic priority arbiter. The arbiter detect the loads of
input ports in every clock cycle and adjust the priority of each input port dynamically, then authorize
one input ports to transfer data based on lottery mechanism. Under the uniform traffic mode in
network-on-chip and non-uniform traffic mode such as an application of MPEG4 decoder in network-on-
chip, we compared the performance between network-on-chip based on round-robin arbiter and
network-on-chip based on dynamic priority arbiter proposed in this paper. The result shows: under non-
uniform traffic mode, the dynamic priority arbiter can improve the communication performance of
network-on-chip and reduce the requirement of buffer resource in network interface.
82. ElastiStore: An elastic buffer architecture for
Network-on-Chip routers
IEEE 2014
Abstract:
The design of scalable Network-on-Chip (NoC) architectures calls for new implementations
that achieve high-throughput and low-latency operation, without exceeding the stringent
area-energy constraints of modern Systems-on-Chip (SoC). The router's buffer architecture
is a critical design aspect that affects both network-wide performance and implementation
characteristics. In this paper, we extend Elastic Buffer (EB) architectures to support multiple
Virtual Channels (VC) and we derive ElastiStore, a novel
lightweight elastic buffer architecture that minimizes buffering requirements, without
sacrificing performance. The integration of the proposed elastic buffering scheme in the
NoC router enables the design of new router architectures - both single-cycle and two-stage
pipelined - which offer the same performance as baseline VC-based routers, albeit at a
significantly lower area/power cost

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