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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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

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:

Tsai, Wei Yu

Title:

Enabling New Computation Paradigms with Emerging Technologies

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Non-Boolean Computation
Neural Networks
Coupled Scillators
Low-power Computation
Image Processing
Audio Processing

File:

Download dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

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