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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:

Sampath Kumar, Vikram

Title:

An FPGA based Real-Time Tracking System for Indoor Environments

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

tracking
image processing
connected components

File:

Download Vikram_SampathKumar_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suman Datta, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Saripalli, Vinay

Title:

DEVICE AND ARCHITECTURE CO-DESIGN FOR ULTRA-LOW POWER LOGIC USING EMERGING TUNNELING-BASED DEVICES

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Tunnel FET
Single Electron Transistor
Low Power Electronics
Heterogeneous Architecture
Variation-Aware SRAM

File:

Download VinaySaripalli-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Suman Datta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suman Datta, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Kyusun Choi, Committee Member
M Jeya Chandra, Committee Member
Raj Acharya, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Wei

Title:

LEAKAGE ENERGY OPTIMIZATIONS AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Reliability
Dcache
Compiler
Low Power
Icache

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Ye, Wu

Title:

ARCHITECTURAL LEVEL POWER ESTIMATION AND EXPERIMENTATION

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

SimplePower
Power Estimation
RTL
Architectural Level Power Estimation/Optimization
Partitioning Power Modeling Technique
Transition-Sensitive Energy Model

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr Ali R Hurson, Committee Member
John Joseph Hannan, Committee Member
Shizhuo Yin, 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:

Jiao, Yu

Title:

Mobile Agent-Based Energy-Efficient and Secure Global Information Systems

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

power management
information retrieval
mobile agents
mobile computing
security

File:

Download ThesisMaster.pdf

Committee Members:

Ali R Hurson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Guohong Cao, Committee Member
John Joseph Hannan, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, 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:

Kestur Vyasa Prasanna, Srinidhi

Title:

Domain-specific Accelerators on Reconfigurable Platforms

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

accelerators
NuFFT
FPGA
N-body problem
matrix vector
sparse
saliency
HMAX
attention
recognition
neuromorphic
vision

File:

Download 1-SrinidhiKestur-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suman Datta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vishal Monga, Committee Member
M Jeya Chandra, Committee Member
John D Davis, Special 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:

Aliyaru Kunju, Ashkar Ali

Title:

Design Fabrication and Characterization of Antimonide MOS Transistors

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

MOS
Low Power
Antimonide
MOSFET
High-k Dielectric
Quantum Well
CV

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_AshkarAli.pdf

Committee Members:

Suman Datta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suman Datta, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peter E Schiffer, Committee Member
Theresa Stellwag Mayer, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Suzanne E Mohney, Committee Member

Author:

Cho, Yong

Title:

Accelerating Cortical Processing for Real Time Neuromorphic Vision Systems

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Gabor
feature extraction
primary visual cortex
multi-resolution
bio-inspired vision

File:

Download Cho_final_2.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Kyusun Choi, Committee Member
M Jeya Chandra, Committee Member

Author:

Wray, Kyle Hollins

Title:

A Game Theoretic Approach to Multi-agent Systems in Highly Dynamic, Information-sparse, Role Assignment Scenarios

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Multiagent Systems
Game Theory
Fictitious Play
Anti-Coordination Games
Predator Prey
Uncertainty
Robotics
Cooperation

File:

Download KyleWray-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Benjamin Berry Thompson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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:

Sahin, Dagistan

Title:

Tracing footprints of Environmental events in tree ring chemistry using Neutron Activation Analysis

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

neutron activation analysis
NAA
kzero
k0
Westcott formalism
Geant4
MCNP
Monte Carlo
tree ring
Dendrochemistry
climate

File:

Download DagistanSahinPhD.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenan Unlu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenan Unlu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kostadin Nikolov Ivanov, Committee Member
Igor Jovanovic, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Peter Ian Kuniholm, Special Member
Charlotte Pearson, Special Member

Author:

Mohata, Dheeraj Kumar

Title:

Arsendie-Antmonide Tunnel Transistors for Low Power Logic Applications

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Transistor
TFET
Arsenide
Antimonide
Hetero-junction
Fabrication
low power
steep switching
supply voltage

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_DheerajMohata_May_2013.pdf

Committee Members:

Suman Datta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Theresa Stellwag Mayer, Committee Member
Jun Zhu, Committee 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:

Park, Sungho

Title:

system-on-chip integration of heterogeneous accelerators for perceptual computing

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

perceptual computing
system-on-chip
heterogeneous accelerator
stream processing

File:

Download Sungho_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Member
Dongwon Lee, Committee Member
Kevin M Irick, Special Member

Author:

Ranade, Rohit Rajiv

Title:

Image Processing Using Coupled Oscillators

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

oscillators
image processing
kuramoto model

File:

Download MSTHESIS_RRR_Finaldraft.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth Jenkins, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Liu, Lu

Title:

Classical And Coulomb Blockade Iii-v Multi-gate Quantum Well Field Effect Transistors For Ultra Low Power Logic Applications

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

multi-gate
quantum well FET
single electron
Coulomb blockade
non-volatile
low power

File:

Download Dissertation_Lu_Dec22013.pdf

Committee Members:

Suman Datta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suman Datta, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Theresa Stellwag Mayer, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member

Author:

Gala, Charles Joseph

Title:

Utilizing Graphics Processing Units for Rapid Facial Recognition using Video Input

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

facial recognition
graphics processing unit
GPU
CUDA
detection
tracking
recognition
live streaming data

File:

Download CharlesGala_thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Raj Acharya, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bruce Einfalt, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Collins, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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:

Park, Mi Sun

Title:

Configurable Accelerators for Visual and Text Analytics

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Accelerators
Recognition
Vision
Text Processing
Personal Analytics

File:

Download mspark_dissertation_final_submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Jane Irwin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
C Lee Giles, Committee Member
Bradley Paul Wyble, Committee Member
Omesh Tickoo, 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:

Swaminathan, Karthik Venkataraman

Title:

An examination of Post-CMOS computing techniques using steep-slope device-based architectures

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Beyond-CMOS computing
Heterojunction Tunnel FET (TFET)
device-to-architecture abstraction
heterogeneous architectures

File:

Download thesis_karthik_swaminathan.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Committee Member
Jack Sampson, Committee Member
M Jeya Chandra, 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:

Chandrashekhar, Anusha

Title:

Acceleration of monocular depth extraction for images

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Monocular depth extraction
GPU
CUDA
Hardware acceleration
non-parametric depth
fast depth estimator
computer vision

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Liu, Huichu

Title:

Device Circuit Interactions for Steep Switching Slope Devices

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Tunneling-field-effect-transistor
device-circuit interaction
steep subthreshold slope
energy efficiency
soft error reliability

File:

Download Ph.D_Thesis_Huichu_Liu-Final_1-12_2.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suman Datta, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Joshua Alexander Robinson, 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:

Zheng, Yang

Title:

Modeling And Design Analysis Of Emerging Non-volatile Memories For Future Computer Systems

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

STT-RAM
ReRAM
Non-volatile Memory

File:

Download YangZhengThesisFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Yuan Xie, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Cotter, Matthew Joseph

Title:

Enabling Intelligent Vision Systems in a Configurable Multi-algorithm Pipeline

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Configurable Systems
Vision Algorithms
Intelligent Vision
Hardware Accelerators

File:

Download Cotter_Dissertation_PSU_CSE_2015_FinalDraft.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Committee Member
John Phillip Sustersic Jr., Special Member
Dr Steven P Levitan, Special Member

Author:

Smith, Brigid Louise

Title:

improving object recognition performance through semantic context extraction

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

computer vision
machine vision
vision
image processing
context

File:

Download THESIS-grad.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Davis, Kameran J

Title:

Real Time Object Tracking On Active Pan Tilt Zoom Camera Using Cmt

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

CMT
Keypoints
Tracking
Real-time
Pan-Tilt-Zoom
Camera
Consensus-Based
Matching
Software
Canon
VB-C300

File:

Download KJDThesisFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Phillip Sustersic Jr., Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jack Sampson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Heo, Unsuk

Title:

A High-efficiency Switched-capacitance Htfet Charge Pump For Low-input-voltage Applications

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Charge pump
DC-DC converter
power-conversion-efficiency (PCE)
switched-capacitance
tunnel FET (TFET)

File:

Download UnsukHeo_Master_Thesis0403_1.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kyusun Choi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Snyder, Joshua Scott

Title:

Optimization and Hardware Acceleration of Consensus-based Matching and Tracking

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

hardware acceleration
object tracking
FPGA
CMT
hardware architecture
vision system
computer vision

File:

Download 1-Snyder_Joshua_OptimizationandAccelerationofCMT.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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:

Agrawal, Nidhi

Title:

Variation Study on Advanced Cmos Systems for Low Voltage Applications

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

FinFET
TFET
Line Edge Roughness (LER)
Line Width Roughness (LWR)
SRAM
Rean Static Noise Margin (RSNM)
NBTI
PBTI

File:

Download Thesis_Final_Nidhi_Agrawal.pdf

Committee Members:

Suman Datta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Roman Engel Herbert, Special Member

Author:

Sabarad, Jagdish Shivaji

Title:

A Reconfigurable Accelerator For Neuromorphic Object Recognition

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Hardware Accelerator
HMAX
FPGA
Machine Vision
Computer Vision
Hardware Architecture
High Performance Computing
Bio-Vision

File:

Download JagdishSabarad.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Madineedi, Komala Subhadra

Title:

A platform for evaluating embedded multi-core systems

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Heterogeneous multi-core systems
Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface (CAPI)
OpenRISC cores

File:

Download PSUThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sumeet Kumar Gupta, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Committee Member

Author:

Advani, Siddharth Kishin

Title:

Large-Scale Object Recognition for Embedded Wearable Platforms

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Embedded vision systems
Real-time systems

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jack Sampson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lee Giles, Committee Member
Kevin Irick, Committee Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Outside Member

Author:

Pandey, Rahul

Title:

COMPLIMENTARY III-V HETERO-JUNCTION TUNNEL TRANSISTORS FOR ENERGY EFFICIENT NANOELECTRONICS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Tunnel
Tunnel Transistor
Energy
Power
Efficient
Low-power
Energy efficient
low voltage
TFET
MOSFET
CMOS
Moore's law
Transistor
on-current
steep
subthreshold
switching
sub-thermal
logic
circuits
systems
memory
semiconductors
TunnelFET
complimentary
III-V
compound semiconductors
Germanium
GeSn
Hetero-junctions
tunnel barrier engineering
quantum mechanical tunneling

File:

Download Energy_Efficient_Tunnel_Transistors_by_Rahul_Pandey.pdf

Committee Members:

Suman Datta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Sumeet Gupta, Committee Member
Roman Engel-Herbert, Outside Member

Author:

Cheng, Hsiang-Yun

Title:

EXPLOITING AND ACCOMMODATING ASYMMETRIES IN MEMORY TO ENABLE EFFICIENT MULTI-CORE SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Memory systems
Asymmetric access
Energy efficiency
Cache
Memory request scheduling
Power management
Non-volatile memory

File:

Download Dissertation_HsiangYunCheng_final.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Kim, Moon Seok

Title:

DIGITAL/MIXED-SIGNAL CIRCUIT DESIGNS WITH STEEP SLOPE III-V TUNNEL TRANSISTORS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Steep Slope Transistor
Heterojunction Tunnel FETs
TFETs
HTFETs
Digital/Mixed-Signal Circuit Designs
Energy Efficiency

File:

Download Moon_PhD_Dissertation_Final_v3.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member
Lee David Coraor, Committee Member
Sumeet Kumar Gupta, Outside Member

Author:

Mohapatra, Jagruti

Title:

PREDICTION AND ASSESSMENT OF AMBIENT ENERGY SIGNALS FOR ENERGY HARVESTING SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Prediction
energy harvesting
Non-volatile processors
backup

File:

Download jagrutimohapatra_thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Morgan Sampson, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member