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Author:

Ricketts, Andrew Jonathan Sylvester

Title:

Towards Minimizing the Adverse Effects of Temperature on High Performance Digital Systems

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

High temperature relaibility
NBTI
temperature induced clock skew

File:

Download RickettsFinalDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Yuan Xie, Committee Member
Kenan Unlu, Committee Member

Author:

Vaidyanathan, Balaji

Title:

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS AND OPTIMIZATION FOR NANOSCALE SYSTEM-ON-CHIP DESIGN

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

circuit reliability
system-on-chip

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuan Xie, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yuan Xie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Heng Xu, Committee Member
Anthony S Oates, Committee Member
Raj Acharya, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Feihui

Title:

SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE OPTIMIZATIONS FOR NOC-BASED CHIP MULTIPROCESSORS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Network-on-Chip
Chip Multiprocessor
cache
optimization
power
performance

File:

Download feli-thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Yuan Xie, Committee Member
Kenan Unlu, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Feng

Title:

DEEP SUBMICRON (DSM) DESIGN AUTOMATION TECHNIQUES TO MITIGATE PROCESS VARIATIONS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

high level synthesis
design automation
process variations

File:

Download FWthesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuan Xie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member

Author:

Sun, Guangyu

Title:

EXPLORING THE MEMORY HIERARCHY DESIGN WITH EMERGING MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

memory hierarchy
emerging memory
STT-RAM
PCM
performance
power
reliability

File:

Download Guangyu-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuan Xie, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yuan Xie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Member
Xiaolong Zhang, Committee Member

Author:

Lin, Ing-Chao

Title:

System Level Power and Reliability Modeling

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

System-on-Chip
SoC
TLM
Device Degradation Modeling
Power Modeling
Negative Bias Temperature Instability
Hot Carrier Effect
NBTI
Reliability Modeling
HCE
Transaction level modeling
Bus-based
PCI Express

File:

Download ingchao_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Yuan Xie, Committee Member
W Kenneth Jerkins, Committee Member
Nagu Dhanwada, Committee Member

Author:

Hu, Jie

Title:

ORCHESTRATING THE COMPILER AND MICROARCHITECTURE FOR REDUCING CACHE ENERGY

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Power-Aware Systems Design
Energy-Efficient Cache Architectures
Computer Architecture
Compiler Optimization
Characterization
Algorithm
Performance

File:

Download huthesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Yuan Xie, Committee Member
Richard R Brooks, Committee Member

Author:

Irick, Kevin Maurice

Title:

A Configurable Platform for Sensor and Image Processing

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Image Processing
Hardware Acceleration
FPGA

File:

Download Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Yuan Xie, Committee Member
Vittaldas V Prabhu, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Lin

Title:

DESIGNING ENERGY-EFFICIENT AND RELIABLE CACHES AND INTERCONNECTS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Energy-Efficiency
Reliability
Cache
Interconnect

File:

Download lin-thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Yuan Xie, Committee Member
Kenan Unlu, Committee Member

Author:

DeBole, Michael Vincent

Title:

CONFIGURABLE ACCELERATORS FOR VIDEO ANALYTICS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

FPGA
Hardware Acceleration
Image Processing
3D IC
FPGA Framework

File:

Download Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Yuan Xie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Antonios Armaou, Committee Member

Author:

Soundararajan, Niranjan Kumar

Title:

Addressing Reliability Issues in Performance-Critical Processor Structures

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Microprocessor
Reliability
Soft Errors
Process Variations
Wearout
Fault Tolerance

File:

Download Niranjan_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Yuan Xie, Committee Member
Suman Datta, Committee Member

Author:

Ozturk, Ozcan

Title:

COMPILER DIRECTED MEMORY HIERARCHY DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT IN CHIP MULTIPROCESSORS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

memory
compiler
management
chip
multiprocessor
computer
hierarchy
design

File:

Download ozcanthesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Yuan Xie, Committee Member
Aylin Yener, Committee Member

Author:

Mangalagiri, Prasanth

Title:

A Reliable Design Flow for Platform FPGAs.

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

FPGA
TDDB
HCI
NBTI
CMOS
Dual Vdd
Thermal Estimation
Electromigration

File:

Download Prasanth-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Yuan Xie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Vittaldas V Prabhu, Committee Member

Author:

Das, Reetuparna

Title:

Application-Aware On-Chip Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

On-chip networks
multi-core
arbitration
prioritization
memory systems
packet scheduling
slack
criticality
topology
compression
hierarchical

File:

Download Reetu-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Yuan Xie, Committee Member
Ravishankar Iyer, Committee Member
Onur Mutlu, Committee Member

Author:

Eachempati, Soumya Siva

Title:

Influence of Emerging Technologies on Interconnect Architectures

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

carbon nanotube
radio frequency
FPGA
network on chip

File:

Download soumya-proposal.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Yuan Xie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Member
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Suman Datta, Committee Member
Heng Xu, Committee Member

Author:

Srinivasan, Suresh

Title:

Toward Low Power and Reliable FPGA Design

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Soft Errors
Leakage Power
Permanent Failures
FPGAs
Process Variations

File:

Download Suresh-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Yuan Xie, Committee Member
Vittaldas V Prabhu, Committee Member

Author:

Theocharides, Theocharis

Title:

EMBEDDED HARDWARE FACE DETECTION FOR DIGITAL SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

face detection
embedded systems
hardware implementations

File:

Download theocharides_phd_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Yuan Xie, Committee Member
William Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Member
Wayne Wolf, Committee Member

Author:

Degalahal, Vijay Sai

Title:

Soft Errors: Modeling And Interactions with Power Optimizations

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

reliability in DSM
Soft errors
Single event upsets
low power VLSI

File:

Download MYTHESIS.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Kenan Unlu, Committee Member
Yuan Xie, Committee Member

Author:

Hung, Wei-Lun

Title:

Designing Cool Chips: Low Power and Thermal-Aware Design Methodologies

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

placement
algorithm
VLSI
CAD
thermal
EDA
floorplanning

File:

Download whung.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuan Xie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member

Author:

Wu, Xiaoxia

Title:

Design Exploration for Three-dimensional Integrated Circuits (3DICs)

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

3D ICs
hybrid cache
3D testing
3D EDA

File:

Download XiaoxiaWu-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuan Xie, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yuan Xie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Heng Xu, Committee Member
Sidney Kung, Committee Member
Jian Li, Committee Member

Author:

Dong, Xiangyu

Title:

Modeling and Leveraging Emerging Non-Volatile Memories for Future Computer Designs

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

application
architecture
circuit
non-volatile memory
STTRAM
PCRAM
ReRAM

File:

Download main.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuan Xie, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yuan Xie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Suman Datta, Committee Member
Norman P Jouppi, Committee Member

Author:

Chen, Yibo

Title:

VARIATION-AWARE BEHAVIORAL SYNTHESIS FOR NANOMETER VLSI CHIPS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

High-Level Synthesis
Behavioral Synthesis
ESL

File:

Download Yibo-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuan Xie, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yuan Xie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Suman Datta, Committee Member

Author:

Tsai, Yuh-Fang

Title:

Tools and Techniques for Leakage Power Analysis

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

VLSI design
Leakage power
Power simulator
Low power techniques

File:

Download ytsai-thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Yuan Xie, Committee Member
William Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Member
David Duarte, Committee Member

Author:

Ouyang, Jin

Title:

Architecting On-Chip Interconnection Network for Future Many-Core Chip-Multiprocessors

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Chip-Multiprocessors
Network-on-Chip
Computer Architecture

File:

Download 1-Jin_Ouyang-Disseration.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuan Xie, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yuan Xie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member

Author:

Al Maashri, Ahmed

Title:

Accelerating Design and Implementation of Embedded Vision Systems

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Embedded Vision Systems
Domain-Specific Computing
Reconfigurable Computing
Power Efficiency
Neuromophic Accelerators

File:

Download maashri_accelerated_embedded_vision_systems_v4.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yuan Xie, Committee Member
Robert Collins, Committee Member
Richard A Behr, Special Member

Author:

Eze, Melvin

Title:

Sub-50 nm Multi-Segment Interconnect Design: A treatise on Speed, Reliability and Signal Integrity

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Interconnect
Signal Integrity
Offset Switching
Variable Cycle Timing with Temporal Redundancy
NBTI

File:

Download MelvinEze-Dissertation-Final-eTD.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Yuan Xie, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Special Member

Author:

Niu, Dimin

Title:

Modeling and Architecting Emerging Non-volatile Resistive Random Access Memory for Future Computer System

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Memory System
Non-Volatile Memory
Resistive Memory

File:

Download Dimin-Dissertation-final2.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuan Xie, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Donghai Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Tao

Title:

A Study of DRAM Optimization to Break the Memory Wall

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

DRAM
Memory Wall
3D-stacked DRAM
Wide IO
Activation
Precharge
Refresh
Sub-array Level Parallelism

File:

Download TaoZhang-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuan Xie, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yuan Xie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Raj Acharya, Committee Member

Author:

Zhao, Jishen

Title:

Rethinking the memory hierarchy design with nonvolatile memory technologies

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Memory hierarchy
Nonvolatile memory
Persistence
Memory/storage stack
Energy efficiency
Graphics memory
CMP
GPU

File:

Download jishen-zhao-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuan Xie, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yuan Xie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Onur Mutlu, Special Member

Author:

Xiao, Yang

Title:

using attention to enhance efficiency in video-based computer systems

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

FPGA; neuromorphic algorithm; video-based; embedded system

File:

Download Yang_thesis_8.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Yuan Xie, Committee Member
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Bradley Paul Wyble, Committee Member
Jack Sampson, Committee Member
Lee David Coraor, Committee Member
Kevin M Irick, Special Member

Author:

Wang, Jue

Title:

Architecture-level Designs using Emerging Non-volatile Memories

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

architecture design
main memory
on-chip cache
non-volatile memory
low power
high performance

File:

Download 1-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuan Xie, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yuan Xie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Xiaolong Zhang, Committee Member

Author:

Xu, Cong

Title:

Modeling, Circuit Design, and Microarchitectural Optimization of Emerging Resistive Memory

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Non-Volatile Memory
ReRAM
Computer Architecture
Memory System

File:

Download CongXu-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuan Xie And Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yuan Xie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Suman Datta, Committee Member

Author:

Zou, Qiaosha

Title:

design methodologies of three-dimensional integrated circuits (3D ICs)

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Integrated circuits
design methodologies
three-dimensional circuits
cost-aware designs
reliability-aware designs

File:

Download Dissertation_Qiaosha.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuan Xie, Mary Jane Irwin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yuan Xie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Donghai Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Poremba, Matthew Raymond

Title:

Architecting Byte-addressable Non-volatile Memories for Main Memory

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Computer Memory
Non-Volatile Memory
DRAM
Memory Scheduling
Memory Modeling
Memory Simulation

File:

Download Poremba-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

John Morgan Sampson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yuan Xie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
William Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Member

Author:

Xie, Jing

Title:

Three Dimensional Integrated Circuit Design and Test

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

VLSI
Three Dimensional Integrated Circuit
Testing
Circuit Design
Low Power
High Performance

File:

Download JingXie-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuan Xie, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Jane Irwin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Lee David Coraor, Committee Member

Author:

Jog, Adwait

Title:

Design and Analysis of Scheduling Techniques for Throughput Processors

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

GPUs
Bandwidth
Latency
Parallelism
Memory-Systems
Scheduling
Prefetching

File:

Download dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Yuan Xie, Committee Member
William Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Member
Ravishankar Iyer, Special Member
Onur Mutlu, Special Member

Author:

Kayiran, Onur

Title:

Parallelism-aware Resource Management Techniques for Many-core Architectures

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

GPU
GPGPU
architecture
many-core
throughput
warp
wavefront
scheduling
TLP
thread
parallelism
CTA
heterogeneous

File:

Download dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Yuan Xie, Committee Member
Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Member
Onur Mutlu, Special Member

Author:

Ma, Kaisheng

Title:

Self-powered Internet-of-Things Nonvolatile Processor and System Exploration and Optimization

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Nonvolatile Processor
Self-powered
Internet-of-Things
Architecture Exploration
Energy Harvesting
Fog Computing

File:

Download YourName-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John (Jack) Sampson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Soundar Kumara, Committee Member
Yuan Xie, Outside Member