When writing code for a new hardware platform, the last thing you want to do is bother with the minutiae of I/O routines, string handling and other similarly tedious details that have nothing to do ...

As technology advances, power dissipation has now become the number one challenge facing today’s chip designers. Total power consumption consists of two parts - dynamic power and leakage power.

Technology scaling and process evolution is the most prominent nature of VLSI/ULSI industry. Following the Moore’s law and the advancements in both fabrication process and characterization the VLSI ...