Our work focuses on allocating and scheduling a synchronous data-flow (SDF) graph onto a multi-core platform subject to a minimum throughput requirement. This problem has traditionally be tackled by incomplete approaches based on problem decomposition and local search, which could not guarantee optimality. Exact algorithms used to be considered reasonable only for small problem instances. We propose a complete algorithm based on Constraint Programming which solves the allocation and scheduling problem as a whole. We introduce a number of search acceleration techniques that significantly reduce run-time by aggressively pruning the search space without compromising optimality. The solver has been tested on a number of non-trivial instances and demonstrated promising run-times on SDFGs of practical size and one order of magnitude speed-up w.r.t. the fastest known complete approach.

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Complete simulation of advanced double layer polysilicon bipolar technology is presented using 2D process, equipment and device modelling in the STORM simulat ion environment. Polysilicon emitter size scaling and the perimeter depletion effect are studied. Process simulation results for non-planar polysilicon topographies are presented and the consequences of these on the device characteristics are explored

Abstract-This paper presents a detailed analysis of an architectural pipeline scheme for Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA); this scheme utilizes the so-called Bennett clocking for attaining high throughput and low power dissipation. In this arrangement, computation stages (utilizing Bennett clocking) and memory stages combine the low power dissipation of reversible computing with the high throughput feature of a pipeline. An example of the application of the proposed scheme to an XOR tree circuit (parity generator) is presented; a detailed analysis of throughput and power consumption is provided to show the effectiveness of the proposed architectural solution for QCA. I. INTRODUCTIONAmong so-called emerging technologies that have been proposed to overcome the limitations of CMOS at the "end of the technology roadmap", Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) shows features that are very promising to achieve both high computational throughput and low power dissipation In addition to great promise due to its small size and high computational speed, it has been shown that QCA has great potential for low power operation. The reversible computational paradigm is particularly well suited to QCA because Timler has shown that in a clocked, information preserving system, the energy dissipation of a QCA circuit can be significantly lower than k B T ln2 [9]. Reversible computation is drawing increasing interest as a low power computation paradigm because it may overcome the fundamental power limitation