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ISBN : 978-1-4244-2182-4; International audience; This paper introduces a new methodology for optimizing the performance of Asynchronous-Linear Pipelines. The method supports all delay types, static and variable time delays, enabling the designers to optimize their architecture taking into account the timing information of data dependencies, circuit structure and process variations. The method not only determines the minimum degree of pipelining necessary to satisfy a given performance target, but also computes the optimum placement of the pipeline stages to maximize the throughput.

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ISBN : 978-1-4244-2182-4; International audience; Fault-injection based dependability analysis has proved to be an efficient mean to predict the behavior of a circuit in presence of faults. Emulation-based approaches enable fast and flexible analyses of significant designs such as processors running significant application software. This paper presents the results obtained with an encryption application and questions the usefulness and the effectiveness of detection mechanisms in both hardware and software.