In the last week, I was working on the
followings,
- ARR poster on stochastic physical synthesis
- working with Fei for revision of TCAD paper on Vdd-programmable FPGAs
- DAC06 final version (with Yu)
- paper reading
* "Voltage scheduling under unpredictability: A risk
management paradigm", A. Davoodi and A.Srivastava from Maryland;
Comments: The uncertainty is from
inaccuracy on power/delay when performing high-level voltage scheduling but not
power noise.
The risk is defined as the case in
which the expected clock period cannot be achieved. The problem formulation is
to assign the voltage
level to each operation node and the
risk is minimized. The uncertainty in power and delay is modeled by assuming
Voltage supply is
a Gaussian in the problem formulation
and also in the evaluation stage. I don't think this verification is
sophisticated and valid in general.
* continue read paper on technology mapping such as EMap,
CutMap etc. (link)