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It is a great pleasure to welcome you to the 48th edition of the Design Automation Conference in San Diego. In the age of web-conferencing DAC is changing its format to provide the maximum opportunity for multi-way interaction at the conference. In addition to the kickoff reception on Sunday, DAC will feature a reception at the end of each day to stimulate intermingling of all DAC participants from...
Steve Wozniak will be interviewed live on stage by San Jose Mercury News columnist Mike Cassidy on a wide range of topics, including the ‘joy’ of engineering and following your passion to convert innovative ideas into reality. Steve will provide a unique insight into the vision that started the largest and most successful technology company in the world.
Internet traffic is dramatically increasing, and the fastest growing segment, mobile network traffic, is expected to double every year for the next five years. In the next decade, more than twenty billion smart mobile devices will be connected to the Internet. This exponential growth is requiring new innovation throughout embedded devices and the supporting infrastructure to keep pace with the growing...
The EDA industry faces a substantial shift. Electronic systems are going through fundamental and rapid change in domains ranging from TVs and in-vehicle devices to phones, tablets, and even PCs. These new systems require unprecedented connectivity, hardware and software complexity, and application and user interactions. To meet these challenges, the EDA industry must evolve and expand quickly to enable...
The ultimate goal of the DARPA SyNAPSE project is to build brain-like cognitive computing chips that scale to human cortex by moving beyond the von Neumann architecture and become the brains behind IBM's Smarter Planet vision. The project leverages nanotechnology, supercomputing, and neuroscience and is a collaboration of four universities (Cornell, Columbia, Wisconsin-Madison, and UC Merced) and...
A total of 690 manuscripts were submitted to the 48th DAC. The Technical Program Committee, together with the help of invited expert and external reviewers, selected 156 papers for presentation at the conference. The Conference Executive and Technical Program Committees wish to acknowledge the time and effort spent by the following people who reviewed these manuscripts. Our thanks to all of those...
In order to fulfill the continuously rising communication demands within vehicles the usage of Ethernet as vehicle network is planned, since it is offering high bandwidth, robustness and has a high market penetration. The automotive industry has strong requirements with respect to safety and reliability; hence the introduction of new technologies is usually done in an evolutionary approach. This implies...
In current vehicles, a large number of control units are connected by several automotive specific communication buses, facilitating innovative distributed applications. At the same time, computers and entertainment devices use IP and commodity communications technology like Ethernet to connect to the Internet, allowing for innovative solutions and maintaining fast innovation cycles. Today, one can...
The development of in-vehicle software, often controlling safety-critical functions related to braking, steering and transmission systems, requires rigorous techniques to ensure high-integrity and reliability requirements. Formal models of requirements and design artifacts based on state-transition systems and other formalisms serve as a means to apply rigorous analysis and verification techniques...
The new write constraints of multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash memory make most of the existing flash translation layer (FTL) schemes inefficient or inapplicable. In this paper, we solve several fundamental problems in the design of MLC flash translation layer. The objective is to reduce the garbage collection overhead so as to reduce the average system response time. We make the key observation that...
Using device write buffers is a promising technique to improve the write performance of solid-state disks. The write buffer not only reduces the write traffic to the flash but also produces large and sequential write bursts to the underlying flash translation layer. This study proposes a new buffer design consisting of a replacement policy and a write-back policy. This buffer monitors how the host...
In recent years, reliability has become one critical issue in the designs of flash file systems due to the growing unreliability of advanced flash-memory chips. In this paper, a version-based strategy with optimal space utilization is proposed to maintain the consistency among page versions of a file for potential recovery needs with the considerations of the write constraints of multi-level-cell...
Flash memory is quickly becoming a common component in computer systems ranging from music players to mission-critical server systems. As flash plays a more important role, data integrity in flash memories becomes a critical question. This paper examines one aspect of that data integrity by measuring the types of errors that occur when power fails during a flash memory operation. Our findings demonstrate...
To cope with the variations and uncertainties that emanate from hardware and application characteristics, dynamic power management (DPM) frameworks must be able to learn about the system inputs and environment and adjust the power management policy on the fly. In this paper we present an online adaptive DPM technique based on model-free reinforcement learning (RL), which is commonly used to control...
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