Ieee Transaction On Computers (december 2004)

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTERS IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTERS A publication of the IEEE Computer Society DECEMBER 2004 VOLUME 53 NUMBER 12 ITCOB4 (ISSN 0018-9340) Editor’s Note V.K. Prasanna .................................................................................................................................................................... 1505 PAPERS Computer Organizations and Architectures Specification A Combined Approach to High-Level Synthesis for Dynamically Reconfigurable Systems M. Meribout and M. Motomura .......................................................................................................................................... 1508 Digital Devices and Modeling Performance Evaluations A Gaussian Noise Generator for Hardware-Based Simulations D. Lee, W. Luk, J.D. Villasenor, P.Y.K. Cheung .................................................................................................................. 1523 Digital Devices, Computer Components, and Interconnection Networks Lower Bounds on the Loading of Multiple Bus Networks for Binary Tree Algorithms H.P. Dharmasena and R. Vaidyanathan ............................................................................................................................ Designing WDM Optical Interconnects with Full Connectivity by Using Limited Wavelength Conversion Y. Yang and J. Wang .......................................................................................................................................................... 1535 1547 Performance, Fault Tolerance, Reliability, Security, and Testability Susceptibility of Commodity Systems and Software to Memory Soft Errors A. Messer, P. Bernadat, G. Fu, D. Chen, Z. Di