Conference Program    Technical Session

WEDNESDAY, July 26, 2006, 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM | Room: 305
TOPIC AREA:  SYNTHESIS AND FPGA
(of special interest to designers)


   SESSION 36
  Electrical and Thermal Issues in FPGAs
  Chair: Rajeev Jayaraman - Xilinx, Inc., San Jose, CA
  Organizers: Patrick Lysaght, Ryan Kastner

  This session will explore a variety of electrical and thermal issues in deep nanometer FPGAs. The papers present new algorithms and architectures to reduce leakage power in embedded memories, reduce thermal emulation runtimes, reduce leakage due to process variation, and analyze the degradation of FPGAs caused by hot carrier effects.

  36.1   Leakage Power Reduction of Embedded Memories on FPGAs Through Location Assignment
  Speaker(s): Yan Meng - Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA
  Author(s): Yan Meng - Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA
Timothy Sherwood - Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA
Ryan Kastner - Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA
  36.2  A Fast HW/SW FPGA-Based Thermal Emulation Framework for Multi-Processor System-on-Chip
  Speaker(s): David Atienza - DACYA/UCM, Madrid, Spain
  Author(s): David Atienza - DACYA/UCM, Madrid, Spain
Pablo G. Del Valle - DACYA/UCM, Madrid, Spain
Giacomo Paci - DEIS/Univ. of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Francesco Poletti - DEIS/Univ. of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Luca Benini - DEIS/Univ. of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Giovanni De Micheli - LSI/EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Jose M. Mendias - DACYA/UCM, Madrid, Spain
  36.3  An Adaptive FPGA Architecture with Process Variation Compensation and Reduced Leakage
  Speaker(s): Georges Nabaa - Actel Corp., Mountain View, CA
  Author(s): Georges Nabaa - Actel Corp., Mountain View, CA
Navid Azizi - Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON
Farid N. Najm - Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON
  36.4  FLAW: FPGA Lifetime AWareness
  Speaker(s): Suresh Srinivasan - Pennsylvania State Univ., State College, PA
  Author(s): Suresh Srinivasan - Pennsylvania State Univ., State College, PA
Prasanth Mangalagiri - Pennsylvania State Univ., State College, PA
Karthik Sarpatwari - Pennsylvania State Univ., State College, PA
Yuan Xie - Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan - Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA