FULL PROGRAM Monday 3rd October 2011 08:45 – 09:15 Opening Ceremony and Committees Address by General Chair and Program Chair 09:15 – 10:15 Keynote speech 1: Rigorous System Design (Grand Ballroom I) Joseph Sifakis CNRS-Grenoble INP-UJF, Verimag Laboratory, Grenoble, France 10:35 – 12:15 Session 1. Biomedical Sensors (Grand Ballroom II) Organizer: Jun Ohta, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Chair: Jun Ohta, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Co-chair: Amine Bermak, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China 1.1 A Low Cost CMOS Polarimetric Ophthalmoscope Scheme for Cerebral Malaria Diagnostics Xiaojin Zhao1,2, Amine Bermak1, and Farid Boussaid3 1 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China 2 Shenzhen University, China 3 The University of Western Australia 1.2 Multimodal Proton and Fluorescence Image Sensor for Bio Applications Hirokazu Nakazawa, Makoto Ishida, and Kazuaki Sawada Toyohashi University of Technology, Aichi, Japan 1.3 Fabrication of a Flexible Neural Interface Device with CMOS-based Smart Electrodes Toshihiko Noda1, Takuya Kitao1, Takasuke Ito1, Kiyotaka Sasagawa1, Takashi Tokuda1, Yasuo Terasawa2, Hiroyuki Tashiro3, Hiroyuki Kanda4, Takashi Fujikado4, and Jun Ohta1 1 Graduate School of Materials Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan 2 Vision Institute, NIDEK Co Ltd., Gamagori, Japan 3 Faculty of Medical Science, Kyushu University, Japan 4 Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Japan 1.4 Micro CMOS Image Sensor for Multi-area Imaging Kiyotaka Sasagawa, Hiroyuki Masuda, Ayato Tagawa, Takuma Kobayashi, Toshihiko Noda, Takashi Tokuda and Jun Ohta Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan --------------Session 2. Digital design and architectures (Grand Ballroom III) Chair: Shoushun Chen, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Co-chair: Ricardo Reis, UFRGS, Brazil 2.1 A Novel Low-Leakage 8T Differential SRAM Cell Khawar Sarfraz Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan 2.2 Area-Efficient 3-Input Decimal Adders Using Simplified Carry and Sum Vectors Tso-Bing Juang1, Hsin-Hao Peng1, Chao-Tsung Kuo2 1 National Pingtung Institute of Commerce, Taiwan 2 National Quemoy University, Taiwan 2.3 STT-RAM based Energy-Efficiency Hybrid Cache for CMPs Jianhua Li1, Chun Jason Xue1, Yinlong Xu2 1 City University of Hong-Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China 2 USTC, China 2.4 Embedded MRAM for High-speed Computing Weisheng Zhao1, Lionel Torres2, Luis V. Cargnini2, Raphael M. Brum2, Yoann Guillemenet2, Gilles Sassatelli2, Yue Zhang1, Yahya Lakys1, Jacques O. Klein1, Dafiné Ravelosona1, Claude Chappert1 1 IEF University Paris-Sud/CNRS 2 LIRMM, University of Montpellier/CNRS 13:30 – 14:45 Session 3. Analog IC Design I (Grand Ballroom II) Chair: Jose Manuel de la Rosa, IMSE-CNM-Universidad de Sevilla, Spain Co-Chair: Jacob Wikner, Linköping University, Sweden 3.1 A High Efficiency Synchronous Buck Converter with Adaptive Dead Time Control for Dynamic Voltage Scaling Application Shaowei Zhen, Bo Zhang, Ping Luo, Kang Yang, Xiaohui Zhu, Jiangkun Li University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China 3.2 Design of Two-Tone RF Generator for On-Chip IP3/IP2 Test Shakeel Ahmad, Jerzy Dabrowski Linkoping University, Sweden 3.3 A Low-Power Ultra-Fast Capacitor-Less LDO With Advanced Dynamic Push-Pull Techniques Xin Ming, Ze-Kun Zhou, Bo Zhang University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China --------------Session 4. Digital signal and image processing (Grand Ballroom III) Chair: Jason Xue, City University, Hong Kong SAR Co-chair: Luc Claesen, Hasselt University, Belgium 4.1 Generating High Tail Accuracy Gaussian Random Numbers in Hardware Using Central Limit Theorem Jamshaid Sarwar Malik1, Jameel Nawaz Malik2, Ahmed Hemani1, N. D. Gohar2 1 KTH, Sweden 2 NUST SEECS Pakistan 4.2 Adaptive Priority Toggle Asynchronous Tree Arbiter for AER-based Image Sensor Myat Thu Linn Aung, Anh Tuan Do, Shoushun Chen, Yeo Kiat Seng Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 4.3 MUX-MCM Based Quantization VLSI Architecture for H.264/AVC High Profile Encoder Yibo Fan1, Xiaoyang Zeng1, Ying Jiang2, Xinhua Chen2 1 2 Fudan University, China Shandong University of Science and Technology, China 14:45 – 16:00 Poster Session 1 (Grand Ballrooms II and III) Chair: Ngai Wong, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China P1.1 Topology Synthesis of Analog Circuits with Yield Optimization and Evaluation using Pareto Fronts Oliver Mitea, Markus Meissner, Lars Hedrich University of Frankfurt, Germany P1.2 New 12-bit Source-Follower Track-and-Hold Circuit Suitable for High-Speed Applications Marcel V. Campos1, Andre L. Fortunato2, Carlos A. R. Filho3 1 University State of Montes Claros, Brazil 2 University State of Campinas, Brazil 3 Federal University of ABC, Brazil P1.3 A Low Loss Rectifier Unit for Biomedical Applications Qingyun Ma, Mohammad Haider, Yehia Massoud The University of Alabama at Birmingham, United States P1.4 Prospects of 3D Inductors on Through Silicon Vias Processes for 3D ICs Yiorgos Bontzios, Michael Dimopoulos, Alkis Hatzopoulos Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece P1.5 Performance Evaluation of Air-gap-Based Coaxial RF TSV for 3D Le Yu, Haigang Yang, Jia Zhang, Wei Wang Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China P1.6 Comparative ODE benchmarking of unidirectional and bidirectional DP networks for 3D-IC Kai Lam, Terrence Mak, Chi-Sang Poon 1 Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China 2 Newcastle University, United Kingdom 3 MIT, United States P1.7 Worst Case Analysis for Evaluating VLSI Circuit Performance Bounds using optimization Method Siwat Saibua, Liuxi Qian, Dian Zhou University of Texas at Dallas, USA P1.8 An Easily Testable Routing Architecture of FPGA Masahiro Iida, Kazuki Inoue, Motoki Amagasaki, Toshinori Sueyoshi Kumamoto University, Japan P1.9 Minimizing redundancy-based Motion Estimation design for High-Definition Jeong Hoon Kim, In Jung Lyu, Hyun June Lyu, Jun Rim Choi Kyungpook National University, South Korea P1.10 FPGA Implementation of High Sampling Rate In-Car Non-Stationary Noise Cancellation Based on Adaptive Wiener Filter Hong-Yuan Jheng1, Yen-Hsiang Chen1, Shanq-Jang Ruan1, Ziming Qi2 1 National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan 2 Auckland Institute of Smart Technology, New Zealand P1.11 MCM-Based Implementation of Block FIR Filters for High-Speed and Low-Power Applications Pramod Kumar Meher, Yu Pan Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore P1.12 1024-Point Pipeline FFT Processor with Pointer FIFOs based on FPGA Guanwen Zhong, Hongbin Zheng, Zhenhua Jin, Dihu Chen, Zhiyong Pang Sun Yat-sen University, China 16:00 – 17:15 Session 5. Low-power design (Grand Ballroom II) Chair: José Ayala, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Co-chair: Luis Miguel Silveira, INESC ID, Portugal 5.1 A 230mV 8-bit Sub-threshold Microprocessor for Wireless Sensor Network Wei Jin, Sheng Lu, Weifeng He, Zhigang Mao Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China 5.2 Exploiting Maximum Throughput in 3D Multicore Architectures with Stacked NUCA Cache Asim Khan, Kyungsu Kang, Chong-Min Kyung Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea 5.3 Run-time Self-tuning Banked Loop Buffer Architecture for Power Optimization of Dynamic Workload Applications Antonio Artes1, Jose L. Ayala1, Ashoka Visweswara Sathanur2, Jos Huisken3, Francky Catthoor4 1 Complutense University of Madrid, Spain 2 Holst Centre/IMEC, India 3 Holst Centre/IMEC, Netherlands 4 IMEC, Belgium --------------Session 6. Logic and high-level synthesis (Grand Ballroom III) Chair: Dominique Borrione, TIMA Laboratory, France Co-chair: Lionel Torres, University of Montpellier/LIRMM, France 6.1 Improvements to Satisfiability-Based Boolean Function Bi-Decomposition Huan Chen, Joao Marques-Silva University College Dublin, Ireland 6.2 A Hybrid Algorithm for the Optimization of Area and Delay in Linear DSP Transforms Levent Aksoy1, Eduardo Da Costa2, Paulo Flores1, Jose Monteiro1 1 INESC-ID/IST, TU Lisbon, Portugal 2 Catholic University of Pelotas, Brazil 6.3 Early Planning for RT-Level Delay Insertion during Clock Skew-Aware Register Binding Keisuke Inoue, Mineo Kaneko JAIST, Japan --------------- Tuesday 4th October 2011 08:45 – 09:45 Keynote speech 2: Design and Optimization of Thousand-core Systems: Challenges and Opportunities (Grand Ballroom I) Radu Marculescu Carnegie Mellon University, USA 09:45 – 10:45 Poster Session 2 (Grand Ballrooms II and III) Chair: Jiang Xu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China P2.1 Frequency-Domain Transient Analysis of Multitime Partial Differential Equation Systems Haotian Liu1, Fengrui Shi2, Yuanzhe Wang1, Ngai Wong1 1 The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China 2 Zhejiang University, Hang Zhou, China P2.2 Post-Silicon Failing-Test Generation through Evolutionary Computation Ernesto Sanchez, Giovanni Squillero, Alberto Tonda Politecnico di Torino, Italy P2.3 Communication-aware Middleware-based Design-Space Exploration for Networked Embedded Systems Franco Fummi, Davide Quaglia, Francesco Stefanni University of Verona, Italy P2.4 A General Statistical Estimation for Application Mapping in Network-on-Chip Naifeng Jing, Weifeng He, Zhigang Mao Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China P2.5 On-chip Structure and Addressing Scheme for 2-D Block Data Processing in a 64-core Array System Jing Xie, Huimin Xing, Zhigang Mao Shanghai Jiaotong University, China P2.6 Communication Centric On-Chip Power Grid Models for Networks-On-Chip Nizar Dahir, Terrence Mak, Alex Yakovlev Newcastle University, United Kingdom P2.7 A Clock-less Transceiver for Global Interconnect Jianfei Jiang, Xu Wang, Weiguang Sheng, Weifeng He, Zhigang Mao Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China P2.8 An Optimized TTA-like Vertex Shader Datapath for Embedded 3D Graphics Processing Unit Jizeng Wei, Yisong Chang, Wei Guo, Jizhou Sun Tianjin University, China P2.9 A Fault-tolerant NoC Design using Dynamic Reconfiguration of Partial-Faulty Routing Resources Zhiliang Qian, Ying Fei Teh, Chi-Ying Tsui The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China P2.10 Communication Service for hardware tasks executed on dynamic and partial reconfigurable resource Surya Narayanan1, Ludovic Devaux2, Daniel Chillet2, Sebastien Pillement2, Ioannis Sourdis3 1 Delf University of Technology, Netherlands 2 University of Rennes 1, Inria/Irisa, France 3 Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden P2.11 Combinational Logic Synthesis for Material Implication Anupam Chattopadhyay, Zoltan Rakosi RWTH Aachen University, Germany P2.12 SNM-Aware Power Reduction and Reliability Improvement in 45nm SRAMs Seokjoong Kim, Matthew Guthaus University of California Santa Cruz, USA 10:45 – 12:25 Session 7. MEMS and new devices (Grand Ballroom II) Chair: Man Wong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China Co-Chair: Mohamad Sawan, Ecole Polytehcnique de Montreal, Canada 7.1 Self-dependent Equivalent Circuit Modeling of Electrostatic Comb Transducers for Integrated MEMS Toshiyuki Tsuchiya, Hiroyuki Tokusaki, Yoshikazu Hirai, Koji Sugano, Osamu Tabata Kyoto University, Japan 7.2 Wide-Band Piezoresistive Aero-Acoustic Microphone Zhijian Zhou1, Libor Rufer2, Man Wong1 1 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China 2 TIMA Laboratory, University of Grenoble/CNRS, France 7.3 Designs for Improving the Performance of an Electro-Thermal In-Plane Actuator Man Ho Kwan1, Sichao Song1, Xing Lu1, Lei Lu1, Ying Khai Teh1, Ying Fei Teh1, Wing Cheung Chong1, Yan Gao1, William Hau1, Fan Xeng1, Man Wong1, Chunmei Huang2, Akira Taniyama2, Yoshihide Makino2, So Nishino2, Toshiyuki Tsuchiya2, Osamu Tabata2 1 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China 2 Kyoto University, Japan 7.4 Uniform Carbon Nanotube Diameter and Nanoarray Pitch for VLSI of 16nm P-channel MOSFETs Yanan Sun, Volkan Kursun The Hong-Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China --------------Session 8. Emerging Technologies for Networks on Chip (Grand Ballroom III) Organizer: Ian O'Connor, Lyon Institute of Nanotechnology, France Chair: Ian O'Connor, Lyon Institute of Nanotechnology, France Co-chair: Yuichi Nakamura, NEC, Japan 8.1 3D NoC Using Through Silicon Via: an Asynchronous Implementation Pascal Vivet, Denis Dutoit, Yvain Thonnart and Fabien Clermidy CEA-LETI, France 8.2 Thru-Chip Interface (TCI) for 3D Networks on Chip Tadahiro Kuroda Keio University, Japan 8.3 Layout Guidelines for 3D Architectures including Optical Ring Network-on-Chip (ORNoC) Sébastien Le Beux1, Jelena Trajkovic2, Ian O’Connor1 and Gabriela Nicolescu2 1 Lyon Institute of Nanotechnology, France 2 Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada 8.4 Towards Future VLSI Interconnects Using Aligned Carbon Nanotubes Yang Chai1, Minghui Sun1, Zhiyong Xiao1, Yuan Li1, Min Zhang1, and Philip C. H. Chan1,2 1 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China 2 Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China --------------- 13:35 – 15:40 Session 9. Design for variability, fault tolerance, test (Grand Ballroom II) Chair: Xiaoqing Wen, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan Co-chair: Matthew Guthaus, University of California Santa Cruz, USA 9.1 New SEC-DED-DAEC Codes for Multiple Bit Upsets Mitigation in Memory Li Yi Xiao1, Ming Zhu1, Hong Wei Luo2 1 Harbin Institute of Technology, China 2 National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology, China 9.2 Self-Test Method and Recovery Mechanism for High Frequency TSV Array Jia Zhang, Le Yu, Haigang Yang, Yuanlu Xie, Fabiao Zhou, Wei Wang Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 9.3 Fault Tolerant Design for Low Power Hierarchical Search Motion Estimation Algorithms Charvi Dhoot1, Vincent J. Mooney2, Shubhajit Roy Chowdhury3, Lap Pui Chau 1 International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India 2 Georgia Institute of Technology, USA 3 Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 9.4 Crosstalk Avoidance in NoC Channels Using Numeral-Based Data Coding Mansour Shafaei, Ahmad Patooghy, Seyed Ghassem Miremadi, Somayyeh Taheri Sharif University of Technology, Iran 9.5 On the Functional Test of Branch Prediction Units based on Branch History Table Ernesto Sanchez, Matteo Sonza Reorda, Alberto Tonda Politecnico di Torino, Italy --------------Session 10. Networks-on-Chip (Grand Ballroom III) Chair: Wei Zhang, NanYang Technological University, Singapore Co-Chair: Terrence Mak, Newcastle University, United Kingdom 10.1 Agent-based On-Chip Network Using Efficient Selection Method Masoud Daneshtalab, Masoumeh Ebrahimi, Hannu Tenhunen University of Turku, Finland 10.2 Network-on-Chip Multicasting with Low Latency Path Setup Wenmin Hu1, Zhonghai Lu2, Axel Jantsch2, Hengzhu Liu1, Botao Zhang1, Dongpei Liu1 1 National University of Defense Technology, China 2 Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden 10.3 A Fault-Tolerant NOC using Combined Link Sharing and Partial Fault Link Utilization Scheme Ying Fei Teh, Zhiliang Qian, Chi-Ying Tsui The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China 10.4 Two-levels of adaptive buffer for virtual channel router in NoCs Caroline Concatto1, Anelise Kologeski1, Luigi Carro1, Fernanda Kastensmidt1, Gianluca Palermo2, Cristina Silvano2 1 UFRGS, Brazil 2 Politecnico de Milano, Italy 10.5 System-Level Infrastructure for Boot-time Testing and Configuration of Networks-on-Chip with Programmable Routing Logic Alberto Ghiribaldi, Daniele Ludovici, Michele Favalli, Davide Bertozzi University of Ferrara, Italy --------------- 16:00 – 17:15 Panel – SoC for biomedical applications : trends and challenges (Grand Ballroom III) Organizers: Chi-Ying Tsui1, Salvador Mir2 1 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China 2 TIMA Laboratory, Grenoble, France Panelists: Mohamad Sawan, Ecole Polytehcnique de Montreal, Canada Jun Ohta, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Zhihua Wang, Tsinghua University, China Yong Lian, National University of Singapore, Singapore --------------- Wednesday 5th October 2011 08:45 – 09:45 Keynote speech 3: The Evolution of Fabless IC Industry in China: Past, Present, and Future (Grand Ballroom I) Ping K. Ko1, 2 and C. Patrick Yue2, 3 1 Silicon Federation Inc., Shanghai, China 2 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China 3 University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA 09:45 – 10:30 PhD Forum (Grand Ballroom III) Chair: Philip Mok, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China PhD.1 Design and Implementation of an Object-Oriented Framework for Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration Norbert Abel KIP Heidelberg, Germany PhD.2 Hardware and Software Support for Parallel Programming Models on NoC-based MPSoCs Gustavo Girão and Flávio Rech Wagner UFRGS, Brazil PhD.3 Hierarchical Interconnection for Low Power Circuits in Future Technologies Debora Matos UFRGS, Brazil PhD.4 An Adaptive Multi-stage Rectifier for RF Energy Harvesting Applications Xing Li, Chi-Ying Tsui and Wing-Hung Ki The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China PhD.5 Implementation of Decision Trees in a Configurable Multiprocessor Architecture Bashar Badr, David Mulvaney and Vassilios Chouliaras Loughborough University, United Kingdom PhD.6 A Novel Modeling Methodology and Optimization Technique for RF Circuits using Design Of Experiments Jai Narayan Tripathi IIT Bombay, India PhD.7 Adaptive Routing Scheme for Networks-on-Chip Using Minimal and Non-minimal Paths Masoumeh Ebrahimi and Masoud Daneshtalab University of Turku, Finland 10:30 – 12:10 Session 11. Analog IC Design II (Grand Ballroom II) Chair: Jerzy Dabrowski, Linkopings University, Sweden Co-chair: George-Jie Yuan, Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Tech., Hong Kong 11.1 Multirate Hybrid Continuous-Time/Discrete-Time Cascade 2-2 Sigma-Delta Modulator for Wideband Telecom J. Gerardo García-Sánchez, Jose M. De La Rosa CSIC/Universidad de Sevilla, Spain 11.2 A Voltage Mode Power Converter with the Function of Digitally Duty Cycle Tuning Xiaohui Zhu, Ping Luo, Shaowei Zhen, Kang Yang, Jiangkun Li, Zekun Zhou University of Electronic Science and Technology of China 11.3 A high performance band-pass DAC architecture and design targeting a low voltage silicon process Brendan Mullane, Vincent O'Brien University of Limerick, Ireland 11.4 Clockless asynchronous delta modulator based ADC for smart dust applications Venkata Narasimha Manyam, Dhurv Chhetri, Jacob Wikner Linköping University, Sweden --------------Session 12. Frontier in 3D Integration Engineering (Grand Ballroom III) Organizers Terrence Mak1, Chi-Sang Poon2 1 Newcastle University, United Kingdom 2 MIT, USA Chair: Terrence Mak, Newcastle University, United Kingdom Co-chair: Chi-Sang Poon, MIT, USA 12.1 Low Latency and Energy Efficient Multicasting Schemes for 3D NoC-based SoCs Xiaohang Wang1, Maurizio Palesi2, Mei Yang3, Yingtao Jiang3, Michael Huang4 and Peng Liu1 1 Zhejiang University, China 2 Kore University, Italy 3 University of Nevada Las Vegas 4 Rochester University 12.2 3-D Integration and the Limits of Silicon Computation Dinesh Pamunuwa1, Matthew Grange1, Roshan Weerasekera1 and Axel Jantsch2 1 Lancaster University, United Kingdom 2 Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden 12.3 Architecture and Design of a Programmable 3D-Integrated Cellular Processor Array for Image Processing Alexey Lopich, Piotr Dudek University of Manchester, United Kingdom 12.4 Cycle Avoidance in 2D/3D Bidirectional Graphs Using Shortest-path Dynamic Programming Network Kai-Pui Lam1, Terrence Mak2, and Chi-Sang Poon3 1 The Chinese University of Hong Kong 2 Newcastle University, UK 3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 13:20 – 15:00 Session 13. Emerging Energy Harvesting Integrated Circuits and Systems (Grand Ballroom II) Organizer: Dongsheng Ma, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA Chair: Dongsheng Ma, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA Co-chair: Alex Leung, CUHK, Hong-Kong SAR, China 13.1 A Battery-free Energy Harvesting System with the Switch Capacitor Sampler (SCS) Technique for High Power Factor in Smart Meter Applications Tzu-Chi Huang1, Yao-Yi Yang1, Yu-Huei Lee1, Ming-Jhe Du2, Shih-Hsien Cheng2, and Ke-Horng Chen1 1 National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan 2 Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Hsinchu, Taiwan 13.2 A Subthreshold Digital Maximum Power Point Tracker for Micropower Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Applications Joey Sankman and Dongsheng Ma The University of Texas at Dallas, USA 13.3 Interface Model Based Cyber-physical Energy System Design for Smart Grid Janet Roveda, Susan Lysecky, Young-Jun Son, Hyungtaek Chang, Anita Annamalai and Xiao Qin The University of Arizona, Tucson, USA 13.4 Design and Analysis of On-Chip Charge Pumps for Micro-Power Energy Harvesting Applications Wing-Hung Ki1, Yan Lu1, Feng Su2 and Chi-Ying Tsui1 1 The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China 2 Broadcom Corporation, San Jose, CA, USA --------------Session 14. Modeling techniques for effective validation (Grand Ballroom III) Chair: Masahiro Fujita, University of Tokyo, Japan Co-chair: Matteo Sonza Reorda, Politecnico di Torino, Italy 14.1 SystemC-AMS behavioral modeling of a CMOS video sensor Fabio Cenni1,2, Serge Scotti1, Emmanuel Simeu2 1 STMicroelectronics, Grenoble, France 2 TIMA Laboratory, University of Grenoble/CNRS, France 14.2 Context-aware compiled simulation of out-of-order processor behavior based on atomic traces Roman Plyaskin, Andreas Herkersdorf Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany 14.3 C-Routing: An Adaptive Hierarchical NoC Routing Methodology Manas Kumar Puthal1, Virendra Singh2, Manoj Gaur1, Vijay Laxmi1 1 Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India 2 Indian Institute of Science, India 14.4 Positive Realization of Reduced RLCM Nets Jorge Fernandez Villena, Luis Miguel Silveira INESC ID / IST - TU Lisbon, Portugal 15:20 – 17:00 Session 15. Simulation and optimization (Grand Ballroom II) Chair: Andreas Burg – EPFL, Switzerland Co-chair: Virendra Singh, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India 15.1 3D-IC Floorplanning: Applying Meta-Optimization to Improve Performance Felipe Frantz, Lioua Labrak, Ian O'Connor Lyon Institute of Nanotechnology, France 15.2 Characterizing Statistical Cells Timing Metrics with Semi-Monte-Carlo Method Zeqin Wu1, Philippe Maurine1, Nadine Azemard1, Gilles Ducharme2 1 LIRMM, University of Montpellier/CNRS 2 I3M / University of Montpellier/CNRS 15.3 A More Efficient Arrangement of the Sparse LU Factorization for the Large-Scale Circuit Analysis Josef Dobes, David Cerny, Abhimanyu Yadav Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic 15.4 State Space Optimization within the DEVS Model of Computation for Timing Efficiency H. Gregor Molter1, André Seffrin2, Sorin A. Huss1 1 Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany 2 CASED, Germany --------------Session 16. Digital design and signal processing (Grand Ballroom III) Chair: Luigi Carro, Universidad Federal Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Co-chair: Pramod Kumar Meher, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore 16.1 High-Throughput Pipelined Realization of Adaptive FIR Filter Based on Distributed Arithmetic Pramod Kumar Meher, Sang Yoon Park Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore 16.2 A Full-mode FME VLSI Architecture Based on 8x8/4x4 Adaptive Hadamard Transform For QFHD H.264/AVC Encoder Jialiang Liu1, Yibo Fan2, Xinhua Chen1, Xiaoyang Zeng2 1 Shandong University of Science and Technology, China 2 Fudan University, China 16.3 Robust Design of Sub-threshold Flip-Flop Cells for Wireless Sensor Network Wei Jin, Sheng Lu, Weifeng He, Zhigang Mao Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China --------------- 17:00 – 17:15 Closing Session: Closing remarks by the conference chairs, Best paper award ceremony (Grand Ballroom III)