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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:

Yanamandra, Aditya

Title:

Exploring Power Reliability Tradeoffs in On-Chip Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Electromigration
Soft Errors
Reliability
Network on chip
Router Cache
Iso-reliable

File:

Download AdityaYanamandra-dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mary Jane Irwin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member
Vittaldas V Prabhu, Committee Member

Author:

Parashar, Angshuman

Title:

Redundancy and Parallelism Tradeoffs for Reliable, High-Performance Architectures

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Transient Faults
Reliability
Microarchitecture
Redundant Threading

File:

Download AngshumanParashar-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Anand Sivasubramaniam, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Member
Sudhanva Gurumurthi, Committee Member

Author:

Gayasen, Aman

Title:

Implications of Future Technologies on the Design of FPGAs

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

field programmable gate array
power
thermal
three-dimensional stacking
three-dimensional integration
nanotechnology
interconnect

File:

Download gayasen-thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Vittaldas V Prabhu, Committee Member

Author:

Cover, Bryan Alan

Title:

Analyzing the Benefits of Scratchpad Memories for Scientific Matrix Computations

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

software-controlled
CMP
computer architecture
cache
scratchpad
memory
matrix multiplication

File:

Download thesis-main.pdf

Committee Members:

Mary Jane Irwin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Padma Raghavan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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:

Patrick, Christina M

Title:

Minimizing End-To-End Interference in I/O Stacks Spanning Shared Multi-Level Buffer Caches

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

storage cache
interference
Multi-level buffer caches
performance
I/O
disk
cache

File:

Download Christina-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member
Brian Cameron, Committee Member
Raj Acharya, Committee Member

Author:

Liu, Chun

Title:

EXPLOITING MULTI-THREADED APPLICATION CHARACTERISTICS TO OPTIMIZE PERFORMANCE AND POWER OF CHIP-MULTIPROCESSORS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

multi-threaded characteristics performance power c

File:

Download thesis_chliu.pdf

Committee Members:

Anand Sivasubramaniam, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Natarajan Gautam, 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:

Kandiraju, Gokul B

Title:

Towards Self-Optimizing Memory Management

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Memory Management
Computer Architecture
Operating Systems
TLB

File:

Download mymain.pdf

Committee Members:

Anand Sivasubramaniam, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Ekanadham Kattamuri, Committee Member
Gautam Natarajan, Committee Member

Author:

Giger, Gary Fred

Title:

An Operator-Centric Mission Planning Environment to Reduce Mission Complexity for heterogeneous Unmanned Vehicles

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Genetic Algorithms
Multi-Objective
unmanned vehicles
UUV
mission planning

File:

Download GaryGigerDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member
David J Cannon, Committee Member

Author:

Link, Greg

Title:

Temperature-Aware Computing

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

design automation
architecture
thermal
Temperature
hotspot
hot spot

File:

Download Link-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Chitaranjan Das, Committee Member
Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Member

Author:

Chen, Guangyu

Title:

Java Virtual Machine for Resource Constrained Environments

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Java Virtual Machine
Embedded Systems

File:

Download thesis-chen.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Soundar R Kumara, Committee Member
Kenan Unlu, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Guiling

Title:

Dependable Sensor Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

sensor networks
mobile sensor
sensor deployment
motion planing
sensor security
pairwise key establishment

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas F Laporta, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Piotr Berman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Srimat Chakradhar, Committee Member
George Kesidis, Committee Member
Runze Li, Committee Member

Author:

Kim, Hyun Suk

Title:

Energy-aware hardware and software optimizations for embedded systems

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

compiler optimizations
embedded systems
dynamic power
leakage power
power optimiations
VLIW architectures
Presburger arithmetic
Polyhedran modeling
loop tiling
instruction level parallelism
Trimaran

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Lee, Ingyu

Title:

Sparse Scientific Applications: Improving Performance and Energy Characteristics on Advanced Architectures

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Performance
Scientific Application
Sparse
Energy

File:

Download mythesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Padma Raghavan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Zi Kui Liu, 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:

Sustersic, John Phillip

Title:

The Control, Communication, and Computation Language (C3L): Completing the Design Cycle in Complex Distributed System Development

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Parallelizing Compiler
Distributed Systems Programming
Formal Semantics
Embedded Systems
Computer Languages
Mine Counter Measures

File:

Download sustersic_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shashi Phoha, Committee Member
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Robert Nickel, Committee Member

Author:

Lim, Joford T.

Title:

PROGRAM ALLOCATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF CACHE IN A DATAFLOW ENVIRONMENT

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

dataflow
program allocation
loop scheduling
computer architecture
cache

File:

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Committee Members:

Ali R Hurson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
John Metzner, Committee Member
Ali Borhan, Committee Member
Octavia I Camps, Committee Member