SIM 2010 – Program Schedule


Monday, 10 May
13:30h - 15:30h
Session S1: DESIGN AUTOMATION TOOLS 1

KL-Cuts: Logic Synthesis Targeting Multiple Output Blocks
Osvaldo Martinello Jr, Felipe S Marques, Renato P Ribas and André I Reis

A Tool for the Automatic Generation of the Ordering and Partitioning of Coefficients
in FIR Filters
Angelo Luz, Eduardo da Costa and Marilton Aguiar

AIG Rewriting Considering Multiple Objectives
Thiago Figueiro, Renato Ribas and Andre Reis

Automatic Cell Layouts Generation Using the ASTRAN Tool
Gracieli Posser, Daniel Guimarães Jr , Adriel Ziesemer, Gustavo Wilke and Ricardo Reis

A Graph-based Approach to Generate Optimized Transistor Networks
Vinicius Possani, Eric Timm, Luciano V Agostini and Leomar da Rosa Junior

Clock Mesh Size for Wirelength and Capacitance Minimization
Guilherme Flach, Gustavo Wilke, Marcelo Johann and Ricardo Reis


Monday, 10 May
13:30h - 15:30h
Session S2: VIDEO CODING 1

Power Efficient Motion Estimation Architecture Using QSDS Algorithm with Dynamic
Iteration Control
Marcelo Porto, João Altermann, Eduardo Costa, Luciano Agostini and Sergio Bampi

A Low-Cost Hardware Architecture Design for Binarizer Defined by H 264/AVC Standard
André Martins, Vagner Rosa, Dieison Deprá and Sergio Bampi

Adaptive Distortion Metric Architecture for H 264/AVC Video Coding
Guilherme Corrêa, Cláudio Diniz, Luciano Agostini and Sergio Bampi

A New Parallel Motion Estimation Algorithm
Diego Noble, Gabriel Siedler, Marcelo Porto and Luciano Agostini

A Dedicated Hardware Solution for the H 264/AVC Half-Pixel Interpolation Unit
Marcel Corrêa, Mateus Schoenknecht and Luciano Agostini

A Low Cost Real Time Motion Estimation/Compensation Architecture for the H 264/AVC
Video Coding Standard
Robson Dornelles, Luciano Agostini and Sergio Bampi


Monday, 10 May
16:00h - 18:00h
Session S3: DESIGN AUTOMATION TOOLS 2

Improvements in the Detection of False Path by Using Unateness and Satisfiability
Felipe Marques, Osvaldo Martinello Jr, Renato Ribas and André Reis

A Case Study about Variability Impact in a Set of Basic Blocks Designed to Regular Layouts
Jerson Paulo Guex, Cristina Meinhardt and Ricardo Reis

SwitchCraft - A Tool for Generating Switch Networks for Digital Cells
Vinicius Callegaro, Felipe de Souza Marques, Carlos Eduardo Klock,
Leomar S da Rosa Jr, Renato P Ribas and André I Reis

GDLR: a Detailed Routing Tool
Charles Leonhardt, Adriel Ziesemer and Ricardo Reis
A Software Tool for the Analysis of Reliability in Combinational Logic Circuits
Mateus Teixeira Borges, Rafael Florentino de Oliveira and Denis Franco

Evaluating Power Consumption on Buses Under the Effect of Crosstalk
Carolina Metzler, Gustavo Wilke, Ricardo Reis and Luigi Ferreira


Monday, 10 May
16:00h - 18:00h
Session S4: VIDEO CODING 2

Low Latency and High Throughput Architecture for the H 264/AVC Transforms and
Quantization Loop Targeting Intra Prediction
Daniel Palomino, Felipe Sampaio and Luciano Agostini

Efficiency Evaluation and Architecture Design of SSD Unities for the H 264/AVC Standard
Felipe Sampaio, Gustavo Freitas Sanchez, Robson Dornelles and Luciano Agostini

Evaluating the Ginga Media Processing Component for Implementation of a Video Player
Marco Beckmann, Tiago H Trojahn, Juliano L Gonçalves, Lisane Brisolara and
Luciano V Agostini 1

A Implementation of Media Processing Component Using LibVLC Library for the
Ginga Middleware
Tiago H Trojahn, Juliano L Gonçalves, Leomar S da Rosa Junior and Luciano V Agostini

A Media Processing Implementation Using Xine-Lib for the Ginga Middleware
Rafael Pereira, Juliano L Gonçalves, Julio C B Mattos and Luciano V Agostini

Proposal of a Diamond Search Design with Integrated Motion Compensation for a
Half/Quarter-Pixel H 264/AVC Motion Estimation Architecture
Gustavo Freitas Sanchez, Robson Sejanes Soares Dornelles and Luciano Volcan Agostini


Tuesday, 11 May
16:00h - 18:00h
Session S5: NOCS AND MPSOCS
Wire Length Evaluation of Dedicated Test Access Mechanisms in
Networks-on-Chip based SoCs
Alexandre Amory, Cristiano Lazzari, Marcelo Lubaszewski and Fernando Moraes

Model-Based Power Estimation of NOC-Based MPSoCs
Luciano Ost, Guilherme Guindani, Leandro Indrusiak and Fernando Moraes

Implementation and Evaluation of a Congestion Aware Routing Algorithm for
Networks-On-Chip
Leonel Tedesco, Thiago Gouvea da Rosa and Fernando Moraes

Flow Oriented Routing for NOCs
Everton Carara and Fernando Moraes 3

Adaptive Buffer Size Based on Flow Control Observability for NoC Routers
Anelise Kologeski, Caroline Concatto, Débora Matos, Fernanda Kastensmidt,
Luigi Carro, Altamiro Susin and Márcio Kreutz

Crosstalk Fault Tolerant NOC - Design and Evaluation
Alzemiro Lucas, Alexandre Amory and Fernando Moraes


Tuesday, 11 May
16:00h - 18:00h
Session S6: ARITHMETIC AND DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING

Radix-2 Decimation in Time (DIT) FFT Implementation Based on Multiple Constant
Multiplication Approach
Sidinei Ghissoni, Eduardo Costa, José Monteiro, Cristiano Lazzari and Ricardo Reis

Synthesis-Based Dedicated Radix-2 DIT Butterflies Structures for a Low Power FFT Implementation
Mateus Beck Fonseca, Eduardo da Costa and João B dos S Martins

Implementation of Adders Circuits Using Residue Number System – RNS
Alexsandro O Schiavon, Eduardo A C Costa and Sérgio J M Almeida

Optimal Arrangement of Parallel Prefix Adder(PPA) Trees Acording to Area and
Performace Criteria
Kim Escobar, Luca Manique and Renato Perez Ribas

Implementation of a Floating Point Unit in the Technology X-FAB 0 35
Raphael Da Costa Neves and Iuri Castro

Floating Point Unit Implementation for a Reconfigurable Architecture
Bruno Hecktheuer, Mateus Grellert, Julio C B Mattos, Antonio C S Beck,
Mateus Rutzig and Luigi Carro


Wednesday, 12 May
16:00h - 18:00h
Session S7: DEVICES AND ANALOG DESIGN

1V Self-Biased Current Sources with 10nW of Maximum Power Consumption
Roddy Romero and Henrique Mamoru

Automatic Sizing of Analog Integrated Circuits Including Analysis of Parameter Variation
Lucas Compassi Severo and Alessandro Girardi

Photoluminescence Behavior of Si Nanocrystals Produced by Hot Implantation into
Silicon Nitride
Fellipe C Pereira, Pietro S Konzgen, Felipe L Bregolin and Uilson S Sias

Study of the Electroluminescence from Ge Nanocrystals Obtained by Hot Ion
Implantation into SiO2
Pietro S Konzgen, Fellipe C Pereira, Felipe L Bregolin and Uilson S Sias


Wednesday, 12 May
16:00h - 18:00h
Session S8: DIGITAL DESIGN AND EMBEDDED SYSTEMS

Designing NBTI Robust Gates
Paulo F Butzen, Vinicius Dal Bem, André I Reis and Renato P Ribas

A Study About Transient Vulnerabilities in Combinational Circuits
Mayler Martins, Fernanda Lima, Renato Ribas and André Reis

Design and Verification of a Layer-2 Ethernet MAC Search Engine and Frame Marker
for a Gigabit Ethernet Switch
Jorge Tonfat, Gustavo Neuberger and Ricardo Reis

Evaluating the Efficiency of Software-only Techniques in Microprocessors
José Rodrigo Azambuja, Fernando Sousa, Lucas Rosa, João Almeida and Fernanda Lima

Exploring Embedded Software Efficiency through Code Refactoring
Wellisson G P, Da Silva, Lisane Brisolara, Ulisses B Corrêa and Luigi Carro

A Front-End Development Environment for the Brazilian Digital Television System
Jônatas Romani Rech, Leonardo Roveda Faganello and Altamiro Amadeu Susin