Shinji Kimura

Multi-Operand Adder Synthesis on FPGAs using Generalized Parallel Counters (2009)

Matsunaga, Taeko, Kimura, Shinji, Matsunaga, Yusuke, 松永, 多苗子, 木村, 晋二, 松永, 裕介, ...

Multi-operand adders, which are also found in parallel multipliers, usually consist of the compression trees which reduce the number of operands per a bit to two, and the carrypropagate adder for the...

Folding of Logic Functions and Its Application to Look Up Table Compaction (2008)

Shinji Kimura, Takashi Horiyama, Masaki Nakanishi, Hirotsugu Kajihara

The paper describes the folding method of logic functions to reduce the size of memories for keeping the functions. The folding is based on the relation of fractions of logic functions. We show that...

Issue Mechanism for Embedded Simultaneous Multithreading Processor (2008)

ZANG, Chengjie, IMAI, Shigeki, FRANK, Steven, KIMURA, Shinji

Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) technology enhances instruction throughput by issuing multiple instructions from multiple threads within one clock cycle. For in-order pipeline to each thread, SMT...

The Optimal Architecture Design of Two-Dimension Matrix Multiplication Jumping Systolic Array (2008)

YANG, Yun, KIMURA, Shinji

This paper proposes an efficient systolic array construction method for optimal planar systolic design of the matrix multiplication. By connection network adjustment among systolic array processing...

Efficient Hybrid Grid Synthesis Method Based on Genetic Algorithm for Power/Ground Network Optimization with Dynamic Signal Consideration (2008)

YANG, Yun, KIMURA, Shinji

This paper proposes an efficient design algorithm for power/ground (P/G) network synthesis with dynamic signal consideration, which is mainly caused by Ldi/dt noise and Cdv/dt decoupling capacitance...

Fine-Grained Power Gating Based on the Controlling Value of Logic Elements (2008)

CHEN, Lei, HORIYAMA, Takashi, NAKAMURA, Yuichi, KIMURA, Shinji

Leakage power consumption of logic elements has become a serious problem, especially in the sub-100-nanometer process. In this paper, a novel power gating approach by using the controlling value of...

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FCSCAN: An efficient multiscan-based test compression technique for test cost reduction (2006)

Youhua Shi, Nozomu Togawa, Shinji Kimura, Masao Yanagisawa, Tatsuo Ohtsuki

Abstract — This paper proposes a new multiscan-based test input data compression technique by employing a Fan-out Compression Scan Architecture (FCSCAN) for test cost reduction. The basic idea of...

Bit-Length Optimization Method for High-Level Synthesis Based on Non-linear Programming Technique (2006)

DOI, Nobuhiro, HORIYAMA, Takashi, NAKANISHI, Masaki, KIMURA, Shinji

High-level synthesis is a novel method to generate a RT-level hardware description automatically from a high-level language such as C, and is used at recent digital circuit design. Floating-point to...

Coverage Estimation Using Transition Perturbation for Symbolic Model Checking in Hardware Verification (2006)

XU, Xingwen, KIMURA, Shinji, HORIKAWA, Kazunari, TSUCHIYA, Takehiko

Lack of complete formal specification is one of the major obstacles to the deployment of model checking. Coverage estimation addresses this issue by revealing the unverified part of the design...

Selective Low-Care Coding: A Means for Test Data Compression in Circuits with Multiple Scan Chains (2006)

SHI, Youhua, TOGAWA, Nozomu, KIMURA, Shinji, YANAGISAWA, Masao, OHTSUKI, Tatsuo

This paper presents a test input data compression technique, Selective Low-Care Coding (SLC), which can be used to significantly reduce input test data volume as well as the external test channel...

Axial load-dependent cervical spinal alterations during simulated upright posture: a comparison of healthy controls and patients with cervical degenerative disease (2005)

Kimura, Shinji, Hesselink, John R, Garfin, Steven R, Kawaji, Yoichi, Hasegawa, Kazuhiro, Hargens, Alan R

Object. The objectives of this study were to simulate the upright loading condition in the cervical spine by applying a new compression device during supine posture and to assess intervertebral...

Anisotropic Optical Conductivity of Nd2-xCexCuO4 Thin Films (2002)

Yanagisawa, Takashi, Koikegami, Shigeru, Shibata, Hajime, Kimura, Shinji, Kashiwaya, Satoshi, Sawa, Akihito, ...

Opticcal conductivity spectra $\sigma_1(\omega)$ of Nd2-xCexCuO4 thin films, measured by the reflectance-transmittance method (R-T method) which has been proposed to investigate far-infrared...

An application specific Java processor with reconfigurabilities (2000)

Shinji Kimura, Hiroyuki Kida, Kazuyoshi Takagi, Tatsumori Abematsu, Katsumasa Watanabe

Abstract — The paper presents an application specific Java processor including reconfigurabilities, which is a DLX like pipeline processor with 5 stages and executes Java byte codes directly....

Waiting False Path Analysis of Sequential Logic Circuits for Performance Optimization (1998)

Kazuhiro Nakamura, Kazuyoshi Takagi, Shinji Kimura, Katsumasa Watanabe

This paper introduces a new class of false path, which is sensitizable but does not affect the decision of the clock period. We call such false paths waiting false paths, which correspond to...

Layer-specific NO dependence of long-term potentiation and biased NO release in layer V in the rat auditory cortex

Wakatsuki, Hidemitsu, Gomi, Hiroshi, Kudoh, Masaharu, Kimura, Shinji, Takahashi, Kota, Takeda, Masayuki, ...

We investigated the role of nitric oxide (NO) in the induction of long-term potentiation (LTP) in slices prepared from the rat auditory cortex.Tetanic stimulation of layer IV elicited LTP of field...

Significant correlation between cerebrospinal fluid nitric oxide concentrations and neurologic prognosis in incomplete cervical cord injury

Hosaka, Noboru, Kimura, Shinji, Yamazaki, Akiyoshi, Wang, Xianjun, Denda, Hiroshi, Ito, Takui, ...

In animal models of spinal cord injury (SCI), inducible NO (nitric oxide) synthase is expressed in the spinal cord immediately after sustaining SCI. Excessive NO production has cytotoxic effects and...