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The 21st Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference
Technical Program

Remark: The presenter of each paper is marked with "*".
Technical Program:   SIMPLE version   DETAILED version with abstract
Author Index:   HERE

Session Schedule


Tuesday, January 26, 2016

TF4303TF4203TF4304TF4204
1K  (TF Theatre)
Opening & Keynote I

8:30 - 10:00
1S  University Design Contest
10:20 - 12:00
1A  The Optimization of Memory Architecture and Management
10:20 - 12:00
1B  Secure Embedded Systems & IoT
10:20 - 12:00
1C  Design for Directed Self-Assembly
10:20 - 12:00
2S  (Special Session) Designing with Spintronics: Recent Developments and Upcoming Challenges
13:50 - 15:30
2A  Advances in Verification
13:50 - 15:30
2B  System Simulation and Testing
13:50 - 15:30
2C  Advanced Issues in Floorplanning and Placement
13:50 - 15:30
3S  (Special Session) High-Level Synthesis – Now, the Future, and the "Dark Secrets"
15:50 - 17:30
3A  Robust Timing Analysis and Optimization
15:50 - 17:30
3B  Low Power in Deep Sub-Micro: From Architecture to Physical Design
15:50 - 17:30
3C  Emerging Devices for Energy Efficient Computing
15:50 - 17:30



Wednesday, January 27, 2016

TF4303TF4203TF4304TF4204
2K  (TF Theatre)
Keynote II

9:00 - 10:00
4S  (Special Session) Design Challenges for Energy-Efficient IoT Edge Devices
10:20 - 12:00
4A  Taking Advantages of Uncertainty in System Optimization
10:20 - 12:00
4B  Security and Reliability in Emerging Devices
10:20 - 12:00
4C  Routing
10:20 - 12:00
5S  (Special Session) Cross-Layer Resilience: Snapshots from the Frontier of Design
13:50 - 15:55
5A  (Special Session) Design Automation of Energy-Efficient Smart Buildings and Smart Cars
13:50 - 15:55
5B  Advanced Embedded Software Techniques: Sensing, Computation, and Storage
13:50 - 15:55
5C  Advances in Logic Synthesis
13:50 - 15:55



Thursday, January 28, 2016

TF4303TF4203TF4304TF4204
3K  (TF Theatre)
Keynote III

8:30 - 10:00
6S  (Special Session) Cyber-Physical Systems and Security
10:20 - 12:00
6A  Testing, Modeling and Optimization Techniques for Analog Circuits
10:20 - 12:00
6B  Energy-Efficient & Customized Computing
10:20 - 12:00
6C  Design Methodologies for Microfluidic Biochips
10:20 - 12:00
7S  (Special Session) New Frontiers of Physical Design
13:50 - 15:30
7A  System-Level Design for Energy-Efficiency and Reliability
13:50 - 15:30
7B  Design for Trustworthy IC
13:50 - 15:30
7C  Design for Reliability
13:50 - 15:30
8S  (Special Session) Reliability, Adaptability and Flexibility in Timing
15:50 - 17:30
8A  Emerging Networks-on-Chip Designs
15:50 - 17:30
8B  Test and Debug
15:50 - 17:30
8C  Emerging Devices and Systems for Cyber-Physical Applications
15:50 - 17:30


List of papers

Remark: The presenter of each paper is marked with "*".

Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Session 1K  Opening & Keynote I
Time: 8:30 - 10:00 Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Location: TF Theatre
Chair: Rui Martins (Univ. of Macau, Macau)

1K-1 (Time: 9:00 - 10:00)
Title(Keynote Address) The Next Decade
Author*Alessandro Cremonesi (STMicroelectronics, Italy)
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Session 1S  University Design Contest
Time: 10:20 - 12:00 Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Location: TF4303
Chairs: Man-Kay Law (Univ. of Macau, Macau), Yan Lu (Univ. of Macau, Macau)

1S-1 (Time: 10:20 - 10:28)
TitleAn Automatic Place-and-Routed Two-Stage Fractional-N Injection-locked PLL Using Soft Injection
Author*Dongsheng Yang, Wei Deng, Aravind Tharayil Narayanan, Kengo Nakata, Teerachot Siriburanon, Kenichi Okada, Akira Matsuzawa (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)
Pagepp. 1 - 2
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1S-2 (Time: 10:28 - 10:36)
TitleTime-Domain I/Q-LOFT Compensator Using a Simple Envelope Detector for a Sub-GHz IEEE 802.11af WLAN Transmitter
Author*Chak-Fong Cheang, Ka-Fai Un, Pui-In Mak, Rui Paulo da Silva Martins (Univ. of Macau, Macau)
Pagepp. 3 - 4
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1S-3 (Time: 10:36 - 10:44)
TitleA Noise Reduction Technique for Divider-Less Fractional-N Frequency Synthesizer using Phase-Interpolation Technique
Author*Aravind Tharayil Narayanan, Makihiko Katsuragi, Kengo Nakata, Yuki Terashima, Kenichi Okada, Akira Matsuzawa (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)
Pagepp. 5 - 6
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1S-4 (Time: 10:44 - 10:52)
TitleA 2.2 uW 15b Incremental Delta-Sigma ADC with Output-Driven Input Segmentation
Author*Bo Wang (Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Tech., Hong Kong), Man-Kay Law (Macau Univ., Macau), Saqib Mohamad (Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Tech., Hong Kong), Amine Bermak (Hamad Bin Khalifa Univ., Qatar)
Pagepp. 7 - 8
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1S-5 (Time: 10:52 - 11:00)
TitleA 200-MHz 4-Phase Fully Integrated Voltage Regulator With Local Ground Sensing Dual Loop ZDS Hysteretic Control Using 6.5nH Package Bondwire Inductors on 65nm Bulk CMOS
AuthorMin Kyu Song, Joseph Sankman, Jayeol Lee, *Dongsheng Ma (Univ. of Texas, Dallas, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 9 - 10
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1S-6 (Time: 11:00 - 11:08)
TitleAn AC Powered Converter-Free LED Driver with Low Flicker
Author*Yuan Gao, Lisong Li, Philip K.T. Mok (Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Tech., Hong Kong)
Pagepp. 11 - 12
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1S-7 (Time: 11:08 - 11:16)
TitleA Variable-Voltage Low-Power Technique for Digital Circuit System
Author*An-Tai Xiao, Yung-Siang Miao (National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan), Ching-Hwa Cheng (Feng Chia Univ., Taiwan), Jiun-In Guo (National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan)
Pagepp. 13 - 14
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1S-8 (Time: 11:16 - 11:24)
TitleSub-threshold VLSI Logic Family Exploiting Unbalanced Pull-up/down Network, Logical Effort and Inverse-Narrow-Width Techniques
Author*Ming-Zhong Li, Chio-In Ieong, Man-Kay Law, Pui-In Mak, Mang-I Vai, Sio-Hang Pun, Rui P. Martins (Univ. of Macau, Macau)
Pagepp. 15 - 16
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1S-9 (Time: 11:24 - 11:32)
TitleA Testable and Debuggable Dual-Core System with Thermal-Aware Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling
AuthorLiang-Ying Lu, Ching-Yao Chang, Zhao-Hong Chen, Bo-Ting Yeh, Tai-Hua Lu, Peng-Yu Chen, *Pin-Hao Tang, Kuen-Jong Lee, Lih-Yih Chiou, Soon-Jyh Chang, Chien-Hung Tsai, Chung-Ho Chen, Jai-Ming Lin (National Cheng Kung Univ., Taiwan)
Pagepp. 17 - 18
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1S-10 (Time: 11:32 - 11:40)
TitleRapid Prototyping of Multi-Mode QC-LDPC Decoder for 802.11n/ac Standard
Author*Qing Lu, Bruce C. W. Sham, Francis C. M. Lau (Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., Hong Kong)
Pagepp. 19 - 20
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1S-11 (Time: 11:40 - 11:48)
TitleSub-µW QRS Detection Processor Using Quadratic Spline Wavelet Transform and Maxima Modulus Pair Recognition for Power-Efficient Wireless Arrhythmia Monitoring
Author*Chio-In Ieong, Pui-In Mak, Mang-I Vai, Rui P. Martins (Univ. of Macau, Macau)
Pagepp. 21 - 22
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1S-12 (Time: 11:48 - 11:56)
TitleDesign of an Energy-Autonomous, Disposable, Supply-Sensing Biosensor Using Bio Fuel Cell and 0.23-V 0.25-µm Zero-Vth All-Digital CMOS Supply-Controlled Ring Oscillator with Inductive Transmitter
Author*Kiichi Niitsu, Atsuki Kobayashi (Nagoya Univ., Japan), Yudai Ogawa, Matsuhiko Nishizawa (Tohoku Univ., Japan), Kazuo Nakazato (Nagoya Univ., Japan)
Pagepp. 23 - 24
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Session 1A  The Optimization of Memory Architecture and Management
Time: 10:20 - 12:00 Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Location: TF4203
Chairs: Yun Liang (Peking Univ., China, China), Swathi Gurumani (Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore (UIUC-ASTAR center), Singapore)

1A-1 (Time: 10:20 - 10:45)
TitlePerformance-centric Register File Design for GPUs using Racetrack Memory
Author*Shuo Wang, Yun Liang, Chao Zhang, Xiaolong Xie, Guangyu Sun (Peking Univ., China), Yongpan Liu, Yu Wang (Tsinghua Univ., China), Xiuhong Li (Peking Univ., China)
Pagepp. 25 - 30
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1A-2 (Time: 10:45 - 11:10)
TitleImproving Read Performance of STT-MRAM based Main Memories through Smash Read and Flexible Read
AuthorLei Jiang (Advanced Micro Devices, U.S.A.), Wujie Wen (Florida International Univ., U.S.A.), *Danghui Wang (Northwestern Polytechnical Univ., China), Lide Duan (Univ. of Texas, San Antonio, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 31 - 36
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1A-3 (Time: 11:10 - 11:35)
TitleSTLAC: A Spatial and Temporal Locality-Aware Cache and Network-on-Chip Codesign for Tiled Many-core Systems
Author*Mingyu Wang, Zhaolin Li (Tsinghua Univ., China)
Pagepp. 37 - 42
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1A-4 (Time: 11:35 - 12:00)
TitleA Lightweight OpenMP4 Run-time for Embedded Systems
AuthorRoberto E. Vargas, Sara Royuela, *Maria A. Serrano, Xavi Martorell, Eduardo Quiñones (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain)
Pagepp. 43 - 49
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Session 1B  Secure Embedded Systems & IoT
Time: 10:20 - 12:00 Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Location: TF4304
Chairs: Qiaoyan Yu (Univ. of New Hampshire, U.S.A.), Swaroop Ghosh (Univ. of South Florida, U.S.A.)

1B-1 (Time: 10:20 - 10:45)
TitleImproving Tag Generation for Memory Data Authentication in Embedded Processor Systems
AuthorTao Liu, *Hui Guo, Sri Parameswaran (Univ. of New South Wales, Australia), X. Sharon Hu (Univ. of Notre Dame, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 50 - 55
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1B-2 (Time: 10:45 - 11:10)
TitleJTAG-Based Robust PCB Authentication for Protection Against Counterfeiting Attacks
AuthorAndrew Hennessy, Yu Zheng (Case Western Reserve Univ., U.S.A.), *Swarup Bhunia (Univ. of Florida, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 56 - 61
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1B-3 (Time: 11:10 - 11:35)
TitleMaximizing Level of Confidence for Non-Equidistant Checkpointing
Author*Dimitar Nikolov, Erik Larsson (Lund Univ., Sweden)
Pagepp. 62 - 68
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1B-4 (Time: 11:35 - 12:00)
TitleA Mutual Auditing Framework to Protect IoT against Hardware Trojans
AuthorChen Liu, Patrick Cronin, *Chengmo Yang (Univ. of Delaware, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 69 - 74
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Session 1C  Design for Directed Self-Assembly
Time: 10:20 - 12:00 Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Location: TF4204
Chairs: Bei Yu (Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Tetsuaki Matsunawa (Toshiba, Japan)

1C-1 (Time: 10:20 - 10:45)
TitleSimultaneous Template Optimization and Mask Assignment for DSA with Multiple Patterning
Author*Jian Kuang, Junjie Ye, Evangeline F.Y. Young (Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Pagepp. 75 - 82
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1C-2 (Time: 10:45 - 11:10)
TitleMask Optimization for Directed Self-Assembly Lithography: Inverse DSA and Inverse Lithography
Author*Seongbo Shim, Youngsoo Shin (KAIST, Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 83 - 88
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1C-3 (Time: 11:10 - 11:35)
TitleCut Redistribution with Directed Self-Assembly Templates for Advanced 1-D Gridded Layouts
Author*Zhi-Wen Lin, Yao-Wen Chang (National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan)
Pagepp. 89 - 94
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1C-4 (Time: 11:35 - 12:00)
TitleContact Layer Decomposition To Enable DSA With Multi-patterning Technique For Standard Cell Based Layout
AuthorZigang Xiao, Chun-Xun Lin, *Martin D.F. Wong (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A.), Hongbo Zhang (Synopsys, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 95 - 102
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Session 2S  (Special Session) Designing with Spintronics: Recent Developments and Upcoming Challenges
Time: 13:50 - 15:30 Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Location: TF4303
Organizer/Chair: Sachin S. Sapatnekar (Univ. of Minnesota, U.S.A.)

2S-1 (Time: 13:50 - 14:20)
Title(Invited Paper) Logic and Memory Design using Spin-based Circuits
Author*Zhaoxin Liang, Meghna Mankalale, Brandon Del Bel, Sachin S. Sapatnekar (Univ. of Minnesota, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 103 - 108
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2S-2 (Time: 14:20 - 14:50)
Title(Invited Paper) Architecture Design with STT-RAM: Opportunities and Challenges
AuthorPing Chi, Shuangchen Li, Yuanqing Cheng (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A.), Yu Lu, Seung H. Kang (Qualcomm Incorporated, U.S.A.), *Yuan Xie (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 109 - 114
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2S-3 (Time: 14:50 - 15:20)
Title(Invited Paper) Prospects of Efficient Neural Computing with Arrays of Magneto-metallic Neurons and Synapses
AuthorAbhronil Sengupta, Karthik Yogendra, Deliang Fan, *Kaushik Roy (Purdue Univ., U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 115 - 120
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Session 2A  Advances in Verification
Time: 13:50 - 15:30 Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Location: TF4203
Chairs: Jason C. Verley (Sandia National Labs, U.S.A.), Zuochang Ye (Tsinghua Univ., China)

2A-1 (Time: 13:50 - 14:15)
TitleAutomatic Abstraction Refinement of TR for PDR
AuthorKuan Fan, *Ming-Jen Yang, Chung-Yang (Ric) Huang (National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan)
Pagepp. 121 - 126
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2A-2 (Time: 14:15 - 14:40)
TitleA Complete Approach to Unreachable State Diagnosability via Property Directed Reachability
Author*Ryan Berryhill, Andreas Veneris (Univ. of Toronto, Canada)
Pagepp. 127 - 132
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2A-3 (Time: 14:40 - 15:05)
TitleFormally Analyzing Fault Tolerance in Datapath Designs using Equivalence Checking
AuthorPayman Behnam (Univ. of Tehran, Iran), Bijan Alizadeh (Univ. of Tehran, and IPM, Iran), Sajjad Taheri (Univ. of Tehran, Iran), *Masahiro Fujita (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Pagepp. 133 - 138
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2A-4 (Time: 15:05 - 15:30)
TitleCoupling Reverse Engineering and SAT to Tackle NP-Complete Arithmetic Circuitry Verification in ~O(# of gates)
Author*Yi Diao, Xing Wei (Easy-Logic Technology, Hong Kong), Tak.Kei Lam (Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Yu.Liang Wu (Easy-Logic Technology, Hong Kong)
Pagepp. 139 - 146
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Session 2B  System Simulation and Testing
Time: 13:50 - 15:30 Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Location: TF4304
Chairs: Liang Shi (Chongqing Univ., China), Qiang Xu (Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

2B-1 (Time: 13:50 - 14:15)
TitleNVPsim: A Simulator for Architecture Explorations of Nonvolatile Processors
AuthorYizi Gu, *Yongpan Liu, Yiqun Wang, Hehe Li, Huazhong Yang (Tsinghua Univ., China)
Pagepp. 147 - 152
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2B-2 (Time: 14:15 - 14:40)
TitleMCSSim: A Memory Channel Storage Simulator
Author*Renhai Chen, Zili Shao (Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., Hong Kong), Chia-Lin Yang (National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan), Tao Li (Univ. of Florida, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 153 - 158
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2B-3 (Time: 14:40 - 15:05)
TitleTrace-Based Context-Sensitive Timing Simulation Considering Execution Path Variations
Author*Sebastian Ottlik, Jan Micha Borrmann, Sadik Asbach, Alexander Viehl (FZI Research Center for Information Technology, Germany), Wolfgang Rosenstiel, Oliver Bringmann (Univ. of Tübingen, Germany)
Pagepp. 159 - 165
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2B-4 (Time: 15:05 - 15:30)
TitleGenerating High Coverage Tests for SystemC Designs Using Symbolic Execution
Author*Bin Lin, Zhenkun Yang, Kai Cong, Fei Xie (Portland State Univ., U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 166 - 171
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Session 2C  Advanced Issues in Floorplanning and Placement
Time: 13:50 - 15:30 Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Location: TF4204
Chairs: Sheqin Dong (Tsinghua Univ., China), Yukihide Kohira (Univ. of Aizu, Japan)

2C-1 (Time: 13:50 - 14:15)
TitleCircular-Contour-Based Obstacle-Aware Macro Placement
Author*Chien-Hsiung Chiou, Chin-Hao Chang, Szu-To Chen, Yao-Wen Chang (National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan)
Pagepp. 172 - 177
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2C-2 (Time: 14:15 - 14:40)
TitleLearning-Based Prediction of Embedded Memory Timing Failures During Initial Floorplan Design
AuthorWei-Ting J. Chan (UC San Diego, U.S.A.), Kun Young Chung (Samsung Electronics, Republic of Korea), Andrew B. Kahng (UC San Diego, U.S.A.), Nancy D. MacDonald (ClariPhy Communications, U.S.A.), *Siddhartha Nath (UC San Diego, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 178 - 185
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2C-3 (Time: 14:40 - 15:05)
TitleStitch Aware Detailed Placement for Multiple E-Beam Lithography
AuthorYibo Lin (Univ. of Texas, Austin, U.S.A.), *Bei Yu (Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Yi Zou (Univ. of Texas, Austin, U.S.A.), Zhuo Li, Charles J. Alpert (Cadence Design Systems, U.S.A.), David Z. Pan (Univ. of Texas, Austin, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 186 - 191
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2C-4 (Time: 15:05 - 15:30)
TitleMinimum Implant Area-Aware Placement and Threshold Voltage Refinement
AuthorSeong-I Lei, *Wai Kei Mak (National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan), Chris Chu (Iowa State Univ., U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 192 - 197
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Session 3S  (Special Session) High-Level Synthesis – Now, the Future, and the "Dark Secrets"
Time: 15:50 - 17:30 Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Location: TF4303
Organizer: Deming Chen (UIUC, U.S.A.), Chair: Eric Yun Liang (Peking Univ., China)

3S-1 (Time: 15:50 - 16:15)
Title(Invited Paper) Design and Verification Using High-Level Synthesis
Author*Andres Takach (Mentor Graphics, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 198 - 203
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3S-2 (Time: 16:15 - 16:40)
Title(Invited Paper) High-Level Synthesis of Accelerators in Embedded Scalable Platforms
AuthorPaolo Mantovani, Giuseppe Di Guglielmo, *Luca P. Carloni (Columbia Univ., U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 204 - 211
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3S-3 (Time: 16:40 - 17:05)
Title(Invited Paper) High Quality IP Design using High-Level Synthesis Design Flow
Author*Qiang Zhu (Cadence Design Systems, Japan), Masato Tatsuoka (Socionext, Japan)
Pagepp. 212 - 217
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3S-4 (Time: 17:05 - 17:30)
Title(Invited Paper) Designing High-Quality Hardware on a Development Effort Budget: A Study of the Current State of High-Level Synthesis
AuthorZelei Sun, Keith Campbell, Wei Zuo (UIUC, U.S.A.), Kyle Rupnow, Swathi Gurumani (ADSC, Singapore), Frederic Doucet (Qualcomm, U.S.A.), *Deming Chen (UIUC, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 218 - 225
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Session 3A  Robust Timing Analysis and Optimization
Time: 15:50 - 17:30 Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Location: TF4203
Chairs: Ngai Wong (Univ. of Hong Kong, China), Hao Yu (Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore)

3A-1 (Time: 15:50 - 16:15)
TitleClock Buffer Polarity Assignment Utilizing Useful Clock Skews for Power Noise Reduction
Author*Deokjin Joo, Taewhan Kim (Seoul National Univ., Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 226 - 231
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3A-2 (Time: 16:15 - 16:40)
TitleBuffer Insertion to Remove Hold Violations at Multiple Process Corners
Author*Inhak Han, Daijoon Hyun, Youngsoo Shin (KAIST, Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 232 - 237
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3A-3 (Time: 16:40 - 17:05)
TitleSpeed Binning With High-Quality Structural Patterns From Functional Timing Analysis (FTA)
Author*Louis Y.-Z. Lin, Charles H.-P. Wen (National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan)
Pagepp. 238 - 243
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3A-4 (Time: 17:05 - 17:30)
TitleElectromigration Recovery Modeling and Analysis under Time-Dependent Current and Temperature Stressing
AuthorXin Huang (Univ. of California, Riverside, U.S.A.), Valeriy Sukharev (Mentor Graphics, U.S.A.), Taeyoung Kim (Univ. of California, Riverside, U.S.A.), Haibao Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., China), *Sheldon X.-D. Tan (Univ. of California, Riverside, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 244 - 249
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Session 3B  Low Power in Deep Sub-Micro: From Architecture to Physical Design
Time: 15:50 - 17:30 Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Location: TF4304
Chairs: Takashi Sato (Kyoto Univ., Japan), Pingqiang Zhou (ShanghaiTech Univ., China)

3B-1 (Time: 15:50 - 16:15)
TitleA Novel Low-Cost Dynamic Logic Reconfigurable Structure Strategy for Low Power Optimization
Author*Yu-Guang Chen, Wan-Yu Wen, Yun-Ting Wang, You-Luen Lee, Shih-Chieh Chang (National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan)
Pagepp. 250 - 255
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3B-2 (Time: 16:15 - 16:40)
TitleAn Energy-Efficient Random Number Generator for Stochastic Circuits
Author*Kyounghoon Kim (Seoul National Univ., Republic of Korea), Jongeun Lee (UNIST, Republic of Korea), Kiyoung Choi (Seoul National Univ., Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 256 - 261
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3B-3 (Time: 16:40 - 17:05)
TitleDesign of an All-Digital Temperature Sensor in 28 nm CMOS Using Temperature-Sensitive Delay Cells and Adaptive-1P Calibration for Error Reduction
AuthorShang-Yi Li, *Pei-Yuan Chou, Jinn-Shyan Wang (Chung-Cheng Univ., Taiwan)
Pagepp. 262 - 267
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3B-4 (Time: 17:05 - 17:30)
TitleDesign and Allocation of Loosely Coupled Multi-bit Flip-flops for Power Reduction in Post-Placement Optimization
Author*Hyoungseok Moon, Taewhan Kim (Seoul National Univ., Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 268 - 273
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Session 3C  Emerging Devices for Energy Efficient Computing
Time: 15:50 - 17:30 Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Location: TF4204
Chairs: Danghui Wang (Northwestern Polytechnical Univ., China), Jingtong Hu (Oklahoma State Univ., U.S.A.)

3C-1 (Time: 15:50 - 16:15)
TitleThermal Optimization for Memristor-Based Hybrid Neuromorphic Computing Systems
AuthorChi-Ruo Wu (National Cheng Kung Univ., Taiwan), Wei Wen (Univ. of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.), *Tsung-Yi Ho (National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan), Yiran Chen (Univ. of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 274 - 279
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3C-2 (Time: 16:15 - 16:40)
TitleAn Energy-efficient Matrix Multiplication Accelerator by Distributed In-memory Computing on Binary RRAM Crossbar
Author*Leibin Ni, Yuhao Wang, Hao Yu (Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore), Wei Yang, Chuliang Weng, Junfeng Zhao (Huawei Technologies, China)
Pagepp. 280 - 285
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3C-3 (Time: 16:40 - 17:05)
TitleA Racetrack Memory Based In-memory Booth Multiplier for Cryptography Application
Author*Tao Luo (Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore), Wei Zhang (Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Tech., Hong Kong), Bingsheng He, Douglas Maskell (Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore)
Pagepp. 286 - 291
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3C-4 (Time: 17:05 - 17:30)
TitleLook-ahead Schemes for Nearest Neighbor Optimization of 1D and 2D Quantum Circuits
Author*Robert Wille (Johannes Kepler Univ. Linz, Austria), Oliver Keszocze (DFKI GmbH, Germany), Marcel Walter, Patrick Rohrs (Univ. of Bremen, Germany), Anupam Chattopadhyay (Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore), Rolf Drechsler (Univ. of Bremen, Germany)
Pagepp. 292 - 297
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Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Session 2K  Keynote II
Time: 9:00 - 10:00 Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Location: TF Theatre
Chair: Pui-In Mak (Univ. of Macau, Macau)

2K-1 (Time: 9:00 - 10:00)
Title(Keynote Address) Systems of Systems - The Next Frontier of Semiconductor
Author*Qi Wang (Cadence Design Systems, U.S.A.)
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Session 4S  (Special Session) Design Challenges for Energy-Efficient IoT Edge Devices
Time: 10:20 - 12:00 Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Location: TF4303
Organizers/Chairs: Saibal Mukhopadhyay (Georgia Tech, U.S.A.), Vijay Raghunathan (Purdue Univ., U.S.A.)

4S-1 (Time: 10:20 - 10:45)
Title(Invited Paper) Energy-Efficient System Design for IoT Devices
AuthorHrishikesh Jayakumar, Arnab Raha, Younghyun Kim, Soubhagya Sutar, Woo Suk Lee, *Vijay Raghunathan (Purdue Univ., U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 298 - 301
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4S-2 (Time: 10:45 - 11:10)
Title(Invited Paper) Energy Delivery for Self-Powered IoT Devices
AuthorKhondker Z. Ahmed, Monodeep Kar, *Saibal Mukhopadhyay (Georgia Tech, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 302 - 307
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4S-3 (Time: 11:10 - 11:35)
Title(Invited Paper) Efficient Embedded Learning for IoT Devices
AuthorSwagath Venkataramani, Kaushik Roy, *Anand Raghunathan (Purdue Univ., U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 308 - 311
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4S-4 (Time: 11:35 - 12:00)
Title(Invited Paper) Computing with Coupled Spin Torque Nano Oscillators
AuthorKarthik Yogendra (Purdue Univ., U.S.A.), Deliang Fan (Univerisity of Central Florida, U.S.A.), Yong Shim, Minsuk Koo, *Kaushik Roy (Purdue Univ., U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 312 - 317
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Session 4A  Taking Advantages of Uncertainty in System Optimization
Time: 10:20 - 12:00 Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Location: TF4203
Chairs: Ing-Jer Huang (National Sun Yat-sen Univ., Taiwan), Chun Jason Xue (City Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

4A-1 (Time: 10:20 - 10:45)
TitleApproxMap: On Task Allocation and Scheduling for Resilient Applications
Author*Juan Yi (Chongqing Univ., China), Qian Zhang, Ye Tian, Ting Wang (Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, China), Weichen Liu, Edwin H.-M. Sha (Chongqing Univ., China), Qiang Xu (Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, China)
Pagepp. 318 - 323
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4A-2 (Time: 10:45 - 11:10)
TitleEnergy Optimization of Stochastic Applications with Statistical Guarantees of Deadline and Reliability
Author*Xiong Pan, Wei Jiang (Univ. of Electronic Science and Tech. of China, China), Ke Jiang (Linköping Univ., Sweden), Liang Wen, Qi Dong (Univ. of Electronic Science and Tech. of China, China)
Pagepp. 324 - 329
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4A-3 (Time: 11:10 - 11:35)
TitleSMoSi: A Framework for the Derivation of Sleep Mode Traces from RTL Simulations
Author*Dustin Peterson, Oliver Bringmann (Univ. of Tübingen, Germany)
Pagepp. 330 - 335
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4A-4 (Time: 11:35 - 12:00)
TitleOptimization of Behavioral IPs in Multi-Processor System-on-Chips
AuthorYidi Liu, *Benjamin Carrion Schafer (Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., Hong Kong)
Pagepp. 336 - 341
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Session 4B  Security and Reliability in Emerging Devices
Time: 10:20 - 12:00 Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Location: TF4304
Chairs: Yier Jin (Univ. of Central Florida, U.S.A.), Swaroop Ghosh (Univ. of South Florida, U.S.A.)

4B-1 (Time: 10:20 - 10:45)
TitleA Novel PUF based on Cell Error Rate Distribution of STT-RAM
Author*Xian Zhang, Guangyu Sun (Peking Univ., China), Yaojun Zhang, Yiran Chen, Hai Li (Univ. of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.), Wujie Wen (Florida International Univ., U.S.A.), Jia Di (Univ. of Arkansas, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 342 - 347
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4B-2 (Time: 10:45 - 11:10)
TitleData Privacy in Non-Volatile Cache: Challenges, Attack Models and Solutions
AuthorNitin Rathi, *Swaroop Ghosh, Anirudh Iyengar (Univ. of South Florida, U.S.A.), Helia Naeimi (Intel Labs, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 348 - 353
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4B-3 (Time: 11:10 - 11:35)
TitlePin Tumbler Lock: A Shift based Encryption Mechanism for Racetrack Memory
Author*Hongbin Zhang (Tsinghua Univ., China), Chao Zhang, Xian Zhang, Guangyu Sun (Peking Univ., China), Jiwu Shu (Tsinghua Univ., China)
Pagepp. 354 - 359
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4B-4 (Time: 11:35 - 12:00)
TitleRouting Path Reuse Maximization for Efficient NV-FPGA Reconfiguration
AuthorYuan Xue, Patrick Cronin, *Chengmo Yang (Univ. of Delaware, U.S.A.), Jingtong Hu (Oklahoma State Univ., U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 360 - 365
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Session 4C  Routing
Time: 10:20 - 12:00 Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Location: TF4204
Chairs: Iris Hui-Ru Jiang (National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan), Yao-Wen Chang (National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan)

4C-1 (Time: 10:20 - 10:45)
TitleMCMM Clock Tree Optimization based on Slack Redistribution Using a Reduced Slack Graph
Author*Rickard Ewetz, Cheng-Kok Koh (Purdue Univ., U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 366 - 371
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4C-2 (Time: 10:45 - 11:10)
TitleDynamic Planning of Local Congestion from Varying-Size Vias for Global Routing Layer Assignment
AuthorDaohang Shi, Edward Tashjian, *Azadeh Davoodi (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 372 - 377
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4C-3 (Time: 11:10 - 11:35)
TitleNegotiation-Based Track Assignment Considering Local Nets
Author*Man-Pan Wong (National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan), Wen-Hao Liu (Cadence Design Systems, U.S.A.), Ting-Chi Wang (National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan)
Pagepp. 378 - 383
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4C-4 (Time: 11:35 - 12:00)
TitleOrdered Escape Routing for Grid Pin Array Based on Min-cost Multi-commodity Flow
Author*Fengxian Jiao, Sheqin Dong (Tsinghua Univ., China)
Pagepp. 384 - 389
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Session 5S  (Special Session) Cross-Layer Resilience: Snapshots from the Frontier of Design
Time: 13:50 - 15:55 Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Location: TF4303
Organizer: Ulf Schlichtmann (TUM, Germany), Chair: Jörg Henkel (KIT, Germany)

5S-1 (Time: 13:50 - 14:15)
Title(Invited Paper) Efficient Reliability Management in SoCs – An Approximate DRAM Perspective
AuthorMatthias Jung, Deepak M. Mathew, Christian Weis, *Norbert Wehn (Univ. of Kaiserslautern, Germany)
Pagepp. 390 - 394
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5S-2 (Time: 14:15 - 14:40)
Title(Invited Paper) Cross-layer Virtual/Physical Sensing and Actuation for Resilient Heterogeneous Many-core SoCs
Author*Santanu Sarma, Tiago Mück, Majid Shoushtari, Abbas BanaiyanMofrad, Nikil Dutt (UC Irvine, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 395 - 402
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5S-3 (Time: 14:40 - 15:05)
Title(Invited Paper) On-chip Monitoring and Compensation Scheme with Fine-grain Body Biasing for Robust and Energy-Efficient Operations
AuthorA.K.M. Mahfuzul Islam (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan), *Hidetoshi Onodera (Kyoto Univ., Japan)
Pagepp. 403 - 409
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5S-4 (Time: 15:05 - 15:30)
Title(Invited Paper) Embedded Software Reliability Testing by Unit-Level Fault Injection
AuthorPetra R. Maier, Daniel Mueller-Gritschneder, Ulf Schlichtmann (TU Munich, Germany), *Veit B. Kleeberger (Infineon Technologies, Germany)
Pagepp. 410 - 416
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Session 5A  (Special Session) Design Automation of Energy-Efficient Smart Buildings and Smart Cars
Time: 13:50 - 15:55 Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Location: TF4203
Organizer: Naehyuck Chang (KAIST, Republic of Korea), Chair: Tohru Ishihara (Kyoto Univ., Japan)

5A-1 (Time: 13:50 - 14:15)
Title(Invited Paper) Thermal Modeling for Energy-Efficient Smart Building With Advanced Overfitting Mitigation Technique
AuthorWandi Liu, Hai Wang (Univ. of Electronic Science and Tech. of China, China), Hengyang Zhao, Shujuan Wang (Univ. of California, Riverside, U.S.A.), Haibao Chen, Yuzhuo Fu (Shanghai Jiaotong Univ., China), Jian Ma (Univ. of Electronic Science and Tech. of China, China), Xin Li (Carnegie Mellon Univ., U.S.A.), *Sheldon X.-D. Tan (Univ. of California, Riverside, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 417 - 422
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5A-2 (Time: 14:15 - 14:40)
Title(Invited Paper) Modeling, Analysis, and Optimization of Electric Vehicle HVAC Systems
Author*Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque, Korosh Vatanparvar (UC Irvine, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 423 - 428
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5A-3 (Time: 14:40 - 15:05)
Title(Invited Paper) Distributed Reconfigurable Battery System Management Architectures
Author*Sebastian Steinhorst (TUM CREATE, Singapore), Zili Shao (Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., Hong Kong), Samarjit Chakraborty (TU Munich, Germany), Matthias Kauer (TUM CREATE, Singapore), Shuai Li (Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., Hong Kong), Martin Lukasiewycz, Swaminathan Narayanaswamy (TUM CREATE, Singapore), Muhammad Usman Rafique, Qixin Wang (Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., Hong Kong)
Pagepp. 429 - 434
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5A-4 (Time: 15:05 - 15:30)
Title(Invited Paper) Minimum-Energy Driving Speed Profiles for Low-Speed Electric Vehicles
AuthorDonkyu Baek, Joonki Hong, *Naehyuck Chang (KAIST, Republic of Korea)
Pagep. 435
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Session 5B  Advanced Embedded Software Techniques: Sensing, Computation, and Storage
Time: 13:50 - 15:55 Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Location: TF4304
Chairs: Zili Shao (Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., China), Duo Liu (Chongqing Univ., China)

5B-1 (Time: 13:50 - 14:15)
TitleMulti-version Checkpointing for Flash File Systems
Author*Shih-Chun Chou (National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan), Yuan-Hao Chang, Yuan-Hung Kuan (Academia Sinica, Taiwan), Po-Chun Huang (Yuan Ze Univ., Taiwan), Che-Wei Tsao (National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan)
Pagepp. 436 - 443
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5B-2 (Time: 14:15 - 14:40)
TitleRelay-based Key Management to Support Secure Deletion for Resource-Constrained Flash-Memory Storage Devices
AuthorWei-Lin Wang (National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan), Yuan-Hao Chang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan), *Po-Chun Huang (Yuan Ze Univ., Taiwan), Chia-Heng Tu (Smart Network System Institute, Institute for Information Industry, Taiwan), Hsin-Wen Wei (Tamkang Univ., Taiwan), Wei-Kuan Shih (National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan)
Pagepp. 444 - 449
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5B-3 (Time: 14:40 - 15:05)
TitlePeak-to-average Pumping Efficiency Improvement for Charge Pump in Phase Change Memories
AuthorHuizhang Luo (Chongqing Univ., China), Jingtong Hu (Oklahoma State Univ., U.S.A.), *Liang Shi (Chongqing Univ., China), Chun Jason Xue (City Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Qingfeng Zhuge (Chongqing Univ., China)
Pagepp. 450 - 455
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5B-4 (Time: 15:05 - 15:30)
TitleExploiting Parallelism of Imperfect Nested Loops with Sibling Inner Loops on Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Architectures
Author*Xinhan Lin, Shouyi Yin, Leibo Liu, Shaojun Wei (Tsinghua Univ., China)
Pagepp. 456 - 461
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5B-5 (Time: 15:30 - 15:55)
TitleSlowMo – Enhancing Mobile Gesture-Based Authentication Schemes via Sampling Rate Optimization
Author*Kent W. Nixon, Xiang Chen, Zhi-Hong Mao, Yiran Chen (Univ. of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 462 - 467
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Session 5C  Advances in Logic Synthesis
Time: 13:50 - 15:55 Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Location: TF4204
Chairs: Benjamin Carrion Schafer (Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., Hong Kong), Kai-Chiang Wu (National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan)

5C-1 (Time: 13:50 - 14:15)
TitleLattice-Based Boolean Diagrams: Canonical, Order-Independent Graphical Representations of Boolean Functions
AuthorAhmed Nassar, *Fadi J. Kurdahi (Univ. of California, Irvine, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 468 - 473
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5C-2 (Time: 14:15 - 14:40)
TitleBDD Minimization for Approximate Computing
Author*Mathias Soeken, Daniel Große, Arun Chandrasekharan, Rolf Drechsler (Univ. of Bremen, Germany)
Pagepp. 474 - 479
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5C-3 (Time: 14:40 - 15:05)
TitleMajorSat: A SAT Solver to Majority Logic
AuthorYu-Min Chou (National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan), Yung-Chih Chen (Yuan Ze Univ., Taiwan), Chun-Yao Wang, *Ching-Yi Huang (National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan)
Pagepp. 480 - 485
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5C-4 (Time: 15:05 - 15:30)
TitleFast Synthesis of Threshold Logic Networks with Optimization
Author*Yung-Chih Chen, Runyi Wang, Yan-Ping Chang (Yuan Ze Univ., Taiwan)
Pagepp. 486 - 491
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5C-5 (Time: 15:30 - 15:55)
TitlePolysynchronous Stochastic Circuits
Author*M. Hassan Najafi, David J. Lilja, Marc Riedel, Kia Bazargan (Univ. of Minnesota, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 492 - 498
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Thursday, January 28, 2016

Session 3K  Keynote III
Time: 8:30 - 10:00 Thursday, January 28, 2016
Location: TF Theatre
Chair: David Pan (Univ. of Texas, Austin, U.S.A.)

3K-1 (Time: 8:30 - 9:00)
Title(Keynote Address) Majority-based Synthesis for Nanotechnologies
AuthorLuca Amaru, Pierre-Emmanuel Gaillardon, *Giovanni De Micheli (Integrated Systems Laboratory, EPFL, Switzerland)
Pagepp. 499 - 502
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3K-2 (Time: 9:00 - 9:30)
Title(Keynote Address) A Scalable Communication-Aware Compilation Flow for Programmable Accelerators
Author*Jason Cong, Hui Huang, Mohammad Ali Ghodrat (UCLA, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 503 - 510
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3K-3 (Time: 9:30 - 10:00)
Title(Keynote Address) Software and System Co-optimization in the era of Heterogeneous Computing
Author*Michael Gschwind (IBM, U.S.A.)
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Session 6S  (Special Session) Cyber-Physical Systems and Security
Time: 10:20 - 12:00 Thursday, January 28, 2016
Location: TF4303
Organizer/Chair: Jeyavijayan Rajendran (Univ. of Texas, Dallas, U.S.A.), Farinaz Koushanfar (Rice Univ., U.S.A.)

6S-1 (Time: 10:20 - 10:45)
Title(Invited Paper) Enabling Multi-Layer Cyber-Security Assessment of Industrial Control Systems through Hardware-in-the-Loop Testbeds
AuthorAnastasis Keliris, Charalambos Konstantinou, Nektarios Georgios Tsoutsos (New York Univ., U.S.A.), Raghad Baiad, *Michail Maniatakos (New York Univ. Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates)
Pagepp. 511 - 518
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6S-2 (Time: 10:45 - 11:10)
Title(Invited Paper) Security Analysis on Consumer and Industrial IoT Devices
AuthorJacob Wurm, Khoa Hoang, Orlando Arias (Univ. of Central Florida, U.S.A.), Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi (TU Darmstadt, Germany), *Yier Jin (Univ. of Central Florida, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 519 - 524
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6S-3 (Time: 11:10 - 11:35)
Title(Invited Paper) Covert Channels Using Mobile Device’s Magnetic Field Sensors
AuthorNikolay Matyunin (Tech. Univ. Darmstadt, Germany), *Jakub Szefer (Yale Univ., U.S.A.), Sebastian Biedermann, Stefan Katzenbeisser (Tech. Univ. Darmstadt, Germany)
Pagepp. 525 - 532
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6S-4 (Time: 11:35 - 12:00)
Title(Invited Paper) Multi-valued Arbiters for Quality Enhancement of PUF Responses on FPGA Implementation
Author*Siarhei S. Zalivaka (Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore), Alexander V. Puchkov, Vladimir P. Klybik, Alexander A. Ivaniuk (Belarusian State Univ. of Informatics and Radioelectronics, Belarus), Chip-Hong Chang (Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore)
Pagepp. 533 - 538
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Session 6A  Testing, Modeling and Optimization Techniques for Analog Circuits
Time: 10:20 - 12:00 Thursday, January 28, 2016
Location: TF4203
Chairs: Sheldon Tan (Univ. of California, Riverside, U.S.A.), Mark Po-Hung LIN (National Chung Cheng Univ., Taiwan)

6A-1 (Time: 10:20 - 10:45)
TitleEvery Test Makes a Difference: Compressing Analog Tests to Decrease Production Costs
AuthorSeyed Nematollah Ahmadyan (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A.), Suriyaprakash Natarajan (Intel, U.S.A.), *Shobha Vasudevan (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 539 - 544
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6A-2 (Time: 10:45 - 11:10)
TitleRe-thinking Polynomial Optimization: Efficient Programming of Reconfigurable Radio Frequency (RF) Systems by Convexification
AuthorFa Wang, Shihui Yin, Minhee Jun, *Xin Li, Tamal Mukherjee, Rohit Negi, Larry Pileggi (Carnegie Mellon Univ., U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 545 - 550
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6A-3 (Time: 11:10 - 11:35)
TitleAn Efficient Trajectory-based Algorithm for Model Order Reduction of Nonlinear Systems via Localized Projection and Global Interpolation
AuthorChenjie Yang, *Fan Yang, Xuan Zeng (Fudan Univ., China), Dian Zhou (Univ. of Texas, Dallas, China)
Pagepp. 551 - 556
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6A-4 (Time: 11:35 - 12:00)
TitleSTORM: A Nonlinear Model Order Reduction Method via Symmetric Tensor Decomposition
AuthorJian Deng, Haotian Liu, Kim Batselier, Yu-Kwong Kwok, *Ngai Wong (Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Pagepp. 557 - 562
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Session 6B  Energy-Efficient & Customized Computing
Time: 10:20 - 12:00 Thursday, January 28, 2016
Location: TF4304
Chairs: Weichen Liu (Chongqing Univ., China), Yaoyao Ye (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., China)

6B-1 (Time: 10:20 - 10:45)
TitleFootfall – GPS Polling Scheduler for Power Saving on Wearable Devices
Author*Kent W. Nixon, Xiang Chen, Yiran Chen (Univ. of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 563 - 568
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6B-2 (Time: 10:45 - 11:10)
TitleCP-FPGA: Computation Data-Aware Software/Hardware Co-design for Nonvolatile FPGAs based on Checkpointing Techniques
Author*Zhe Yuan, Yongpan Liu, Hehe Li, Huazhong Yang (Tsinghua Univ., China)
Pagepp. 569 - 574
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6B-3 (Time: 11:10 - 11:35)
TitleDesign Space Exploration of FPGA-Based Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
AuthorMohammad Motamedi, *Philipp Gysel, Venkatesh Akella, Soheil Ghiasi (Univ. of California, Davis, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 575 - 580
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6B-4 (Time: 11:35 - 12:00)
TitleLRADNN: High-Throughput and Energy-Efficient Deep Neural Network Accelerator using Low Rank Approximation
Author*Jingyang Zhu (Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Tech., Hong Kong), Zhiliang Qian (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., China), Chi-Ying Tsui (Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Tech., Hong Kong)
Pagepp. 581 - 586
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Session 6C  Design Methodologies for Microfluidic Biochips
Time: 10:20 - 12:00 Thursday, January 28, 2016
Location: TF4204
Chairs: Hailong Yao (Tsinghua Univ., China), Tohru Ishihara (Kyoto Univ., Japan)

6C-1 (Time: 10:20 - 10:45)
TitleSequence-Pair-Based Placement and Routing for Flow-Based Microfluidic Biochips
Author*Qin Wang, Yizhong Ru, Hailong Yao (Tsinghua Univ., China), Tsung-Yi Ho (National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan), Yici Cai (Tsinghua Univ., China)
Pagepp. 587 - 592
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6C-2 (Time: 10:45 - 11:10)
TitleCongestion- and Timing-Driven Droplet Routing for Pin-Constrained Paper-Based Microfluidic Biochips
Author*Jain-De Li, Sying-Jyan Wang (National Chung Hsing Univ., Taiwan), Katherine Shu-Min Li (National Sun Yat-sen Univ., Taiwan), Tsung-Yi Ho (National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan)
Pagepp. 593 - 598
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6C-3 (Time: 11:10 - 11:35)
TitleChain-Based Pin Count Minimization for General-Purpose Digital Microfluidic Biochips
Author*Yung-Chun Lei, Chen-Shing Hsu, Juinn-Dar Huang (National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan), Jing-Yang Jou (National Central Univ., Taiwan)
Pagepp. 599 - 604
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6C-4 (Time: 11:35 - 12:00)
TitleA Routability-Driven Flow Routing Algorithm for Programmable Microfluidic Devices
AuthorYi-Siang Su (National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan), *Tsung-Yi Ho (National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan), Der-Tsai Lee (National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan)
Pagepp. 605 - 610
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Session 7S  (Special Session) New Frontiers of Physical Design
Time: 13:50 - 15:30 Thursday, January 28, 2016
Location: TF4303
Organizer: Evangeline F.Y. Young (Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Chair: Bei Yu (Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

7S-1 (Time: 13:50 - 14:20)
Title(Invited Paper) Advanced Multi-Patterning and Hybrid Lithography Techniques
Author*Fedor G. Pikus, Andres Torres (Mentor Graphics, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 611 - 616
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7S-2 (Time: 14:20 - 14:50)
Title(Invited Paper) Recent Research Development and New Challenges in Analog Layout Synthesis
Author*Mark Po-Hung Lin (National Chung Cheng Univ., Taiwan), Yao-Wen Chang (National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan), Chih-Ming Hung (MediaTek, Taiwan)
Pagepp. 617 - 622
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7S-3 (Time: 14:50 - 15:20)
Title(Invited Paper) To Detect, Locate, and Mask Hardware Trojans in Digital Circuits by Reverse Engineering and Functional ECO
Author*Xing Wei, Yi Diao, Yu-Liang Wu (Easy-Logic Technology, Hong Kong)
Pagepp. 623 - 630
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Session 7A  System-Level Design for Energy-Efficiency and Reliability
Time: 13:50 - 15:30 Thursday, January 28, 2016
Location: TF4203
Chairs: Guihai Yan (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Donghwa Shin (Yeungnam Univ., Republic of Korea)

7A-1 (Time: 13:50 - 14:15)
TitleAging-aware High-level Physical Planning for Reconfigurable Systems
AuthorZana Ghaderi, *Eli Bozorgzadeh (Univ. of California, Irvine, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 631 - 636
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7A-2 (Time: 14:15 - 14:40)
TitleHardware Reliability Margining for the Dark Silicon Era
AuthorLiangzhen Lai, *Puneet Gupta (UCLA, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 637 - 642
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7A-3 (Time: 14:40 - 15:05)
TitleACR: Enabling Computation Reuse for Approximate Computing
Author*Xin He, Guihai Yan, Yinhe Han, Xiaowei Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Pagepp. 643 - 648
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7A-4 (Time: 15:05 - 15:30)
TitleWork hard, sleep well - Avoid irreversible IC wearout with proactive rejuvenation
Author*Xinfei Guo, Mircea R. Stan (Univ. of Virginia, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 649 - 654
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Session 7B  Design for Trustworthy IC
Time: 13:50 - 15:30 Thursday, January 28, 2016
Location: TF4304
Chairs: Yu Wang (Tsinghua Univ., China), Jeyavijayan Rajendran (Univ. of Texas, Dallas, U.S.A.)

7B-1 (Time: 13:50 - 14:15)
TitleNetlist Reverse Engineering for High-Level Functionality Reconstruction
Author*Travis Meade, Shaojie Zhang, Yier Jin (Univ. of Central Florida, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 655 - 660
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7B-2 (Time: 14:15 - 14:40)
TitleAssessing CPA Resistance of AES with Different Fault Tolerance Mechanisms
AuthorHoda Pahlevanzadeh, Jaya Dofe, *Qiaoyan Yu (Univ. of New Hampshire, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 661 - 666
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7B-3 (Time: 14:40 - 15:05)
TitleSPARTA: A Scheduling Policy for Thwarting Differential Power Analysis Attacks
Author*Ke Jiang, Petru Eles, Zebo Peng, Sudipta Chattopadhyay (Linköping Univ., Sweden), Lejla Batina (Radboud Univ., Netherlands)
Pagepp. 667 - 672
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7B-4 (Time: 15:05 - 15:30)
TitleAnalysis and Vulnerability Exploration of Current Secure Scan Designs
AuthorYanhui Luo, *Aijiao Cui (Harbin Inst. of Tech. Shenzhen Graduate School, China), Huawei Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Gang Qu (Univ. of Maryland College Park, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 673 - 678
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Session 7C  Design for Reliability
Time: 13:50 - 15:30 Thursday, January 28, 2016
Location: TF4204
Chairs: Martin Wong (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A.), Evangeline F.Y. Young (Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

7C-1 (Time: 13:50 - 14:15)
TitleLaplacian Eigenmaps and Bayesian Clustering Based Layout Pattern Sampling and Its Applications to Hotspot Detection and OPC
Author*Tetsuaki Matsunawa (Toshiba, Japan), Bei Yu (Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), David Z. Pan (Univ. of Texas, Austin, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 679 - 684
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7C-2 (Time: 14:15 - 14:40)
TitleBalancing Lifetime and Soft-Error Reliability to Improve System Availability
Author*Junlong Zhou (Univ. of Notre Dame, East China Normal Univ., U.S.A.), X. Sharon Hu, Yue Ma (Univ. of Notre Dame, U.S.A.), Tongquan Wei (East China Normal Univ., China)
Pagepp. 685 - 690
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7C-3 (Time: 14:40 - 15:05)
TitleA Closed-Form Stability Model for Cross-Coupled Inverters Operating in Sub-Threshold Voltage Region
Author*Tatsuya Kamakari, Jun Shiomi, Tohru Ishihara, Hidetoshi Onodera (Kyoto Univ., Japan)
Pagepp. 691 - 696
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7C-4 (Time: 15:05 - 15:30)
TitleDelay Uncertainty and Signal Criticality Driven Routing Channel Optimization for Advanced DRAM Products
AuthorSamyoung Bang (Samsung Electronics, Republic of Korea), Kwangsoo Han, Andrew B. Kahng, *Mulong Luo (Univ. of California, San Diego, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 697 - 704
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Session 8S  (Special Session) Reliability, Adaptability and Flexibility in Timing
Time: 15:50 - 17:30 Thursday, January 28, 2016
Location: TF4303
Organizer: Bing Li (Tech. Univ. München, Germany), Chair: Hidetoshi Onodera (Kyoto Univ., Japan)

8S-1 (Time: 15:50 - 17:30)
Title(Invited Paper) Reliability, Adaptability and Flexibility in Timing: Buy a Life Insurance for Your Circuits
Author*Ulf Schlichtmann (TU Munich, Germany), Masanori Hashimoto (Osaka Univ., Japan), Iris Hui-Ru Jiang (National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan), Bing Li (TU Munich, Germany)
Pagepp. 705 - 711
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Session 8A  Emerging Networks-on-Chip Designs
Time: 15:50 - 17:30 Thursday, January 28, 2016
Location: TF4203
Chairs: Mehdi Tahoori (Karlsruhe Inst. of Tech., Germany), Chun-Yi Lee (National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan)

8A-1 (Time: 15:50 - 16:15)
TitleA High Performance Reliable NoC Router
Author*Lu Wang, Sheng Ma, Zhiying Wang (National Univ. of Defense Tech., China)
Pagepp. 712 - 718
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8A-2 (Time: 16:15 - 16:40)
TitleDynamic Admission Control for Real-Time Networks-On-Chips
Author*Adam Kostrzewa, Selma Saidi, Leonardo Ecco, Rolf Ernst (TU Braunschweig, Germany)
Pagepp. 719 - 724
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8A-3 (Time: 16:40 - 17:05)
TitleFoToNoC: A Hierarchical Management Strategy Based on Folded Torus-Like Network-on-Chip for Dark Silicon Many-Core Systems
Author*Lei Yang, Weichen Liu, Weiwen Jiang, Mengquan Li, Juan Yi, Edwin Hsing-Mean Sha (Chongqing Univ., China)
Pagepp. 725 - 730
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8A-4 (Time: 17:05 - 17:30)
TitleAnalytical ThruChip Inductive Coupling Channel Design Optimization
Author*Li-Chung Hsu, Junichiro Kadomoto, So Hasegawa, Atsutake Kosuge, Yasuhiro Take, Tadahiro Kuroda (Keio Univ., Japan)
Pagepp. 731 - 736
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Session 8B  Test and Debug
Time: 15:50 - 17:30 Thursday, January 28, 2016
Location: TF4304
Chair: Shi-Yu Huang (National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan)

8B-1 (Time: 15:50 - 16:15)
TitleExtending Trace History Through Tapered Summaries in Post-silicon Validation
Author*Sandeep Chandran, Preeti Ranjan Panda, Smruti R. Sarangi (Indian Inst. of Tech. Delhi, India), Deepak Chauhan, Sharad Kumar (Freescale Semiconductors India Pvt, India)
Pagepp. 737 - 742
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8B-2 (Time: 16:15 - 16:40)
TitleNovel Applications of Deep Learning Hidden Features for Adaptive Testing
Author*Bingjun Xiao (Univ. of California, Los Angeles, U.S.A.), Jinjun Xiong (IBM Research, U.S.A.), Yiyu Shi (Univ. of Notre Dame, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 743 - 748
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8B-3 (Time: 16:40 - 17:05)
TitleMixed 01X-RSL-Encoding for Fast and Accurate ATPG with Unknowns
Author*Dominik Erb, Karsten Scheibler (Univ. of Freiburg, Germany), Michael A. Kochte (Univ. of Stuttgart, Germany), Matthias Sauer (Univ. of Freiburg, Germany), Hans-Joachim Wunderlich (Univ. of Stuttgart, Germany), Bernd Becker (Univ. of Freiburg, Germany)
Pagepp. 749 - 754
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8B-4 (Time: 17:05 - 17:30)
TitleTest and Diagnosis Pattern Generation for Dynamic Bridging Faults and Transition Delay Faults
Author*Cheng-Hung Wu, Saint James Lee, Kuen-Jong Lee (National Cheng Kung Univ., Taiwan)
Pagepp. 755 - 760
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Session 8C  Emerging Devices and Systems for Cyber-Physical Applications
Time: 15:50 - 17:30 Thursday, January 28, 2016
Location: TF4204
Chairs: Chengmo Yang (Univ. of Delaware, U.S.A.), Duo Liu (Chongqing Univ., China)

8C-1 (Time: 15:50 - 16:15)
TitleFlexible Transition Metel Dichalcogenide Field-Effect Transistors: A Circuit-Level Simulation Study of Delay and Power under Bending, Process Variation, and Scaling
AuthorYing-Yu Chen (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A.), *Morteza Gholipour (Babol Univ. of Tech., Iran), Deming Chen (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 761 - 768
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8C-2 (Time: 16:15 - 16:40)
TitleNon-Volatile Non-Shadow Flip-Flop using Spin Orbit Torque for Efficient Normally-off Computing
Author*Rajendra Bishnoi, Fabian Oboril, Mehdi B. Tahoori (Karlsruhe Inst. of Tech., Germany)
Pagepp. 769 - 774
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8C-3 (Time: 16:40 - 17:05)
TitleOptimal Co-Scheduling of HVAC Control and Battery Management for Energy-Efficient Buildings Considering State-of-Health Degradation
Author*Tiansong Cui, Shuang Chen (Univ. of Southern California, U.S.A.), Yanzhi Wang (Syracuse Univ., U.S.A.), Qi Zhu (Univ. of California, Riverside, U.S.A.), Shahin Nazarian, Massoud Pedram (Univ. of Southern California, U.S.A.)
Pagepp. 775 - 780
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8C-4 (Time: 17:05 - 17:30)
TitleAccurate Remaining Range Estimation for Electric Vehicles
Author*Joonki Hong, Sangjun Park, Naehyuck Chang (KAIST, Republic of Korea)
Pagepp. 781 - 786
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