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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:

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:

Kang, Byung-Tae

Title:

Issues in low-power and reliable wireless commuication system design

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

low power
substrate noise
wireless communication
mixed signal IC

File:

Download Thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Aylin Yener, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member

Author:

Nicopoulos, Chrysostomos A.

Title:

Network-on-Chip Architectures: A Holistic Design Exploration

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Networks-on-Chip
On-Chip Interconnects

File:

Download Nicopoulos_PhD_Thesis__12-2007_.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Committee Member
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
William Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ram Mohan Narayanan, Committee Member
Paul S Weiss, Committee Member

Author:

Duarte, David Enrique

Title:

Clock Network and Phase-Locked Loop Power Estimation and Experimentation

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

CPU clock energy modeling
power estimation
PLL design
low power VLSI design

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

William Evan Higgins, Committee Member
Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, 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:

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:

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:

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:

Kim, Jung Sub

Title:

HIGH-PERFORMANCE SIGNAL PROCESSING ON RECONFIGURABLE PLATFORMS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Two Dimensional Decomposition
Field Programmable Gate Array
Fast Fourier Transform
Numerical algorithms
System Generator
Hierarchical Memory Controller

File:

Download JungSubKim-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Ram Mohan Narayanan, Committee Member
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
M Jeya Chandra, Committee Member

Author:

Yoo, Jincheol

Title:

A TIQ Based CMOS Flash A/D Converter for System-on-Chip Applications

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Threshold Inverter Quantization (TIQ)
Flash ADC
Analog-to-Digital Converter
System-on-Chip (SoC)

File:

Download yoo_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Kyusun Choi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles Lee Croskey, 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:

Yum, Ki Hwan

Title:

Quality of Service Provisioning in Clusters

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

VirtualClock
Quality of Service
Cluster Network
Network Interface
Network Interface
Router Architecture
Wormhole Router

File:

Download main.pdf

Committee Members:

Chitaranjan Das, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Natarajan Gautam, Committee Member
George Kesidis, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Mary Jane Irwin, 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:

Pirretti, Matthew Gregory

Title:

Secure Communications in Sensor Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Sensor networks
security
secure localization
secure clusterhead election
energy attacks

File:

Download Pirretti_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Aylin Yener, 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:

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:

Krishnan, Ramakrishnan

Title:

Analysis of Failures in Nanoscale Devices

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Reliability

File:

Download Ramakrishnan_Krishnan_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suman Datta, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr Yuan Xie, Committee Member
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Kenan Unlu, Committee Member
Ram Mohan Narayanan, Committee Member
Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Member

Author:

Ramanarayanan, Rajaraman

Title:

SOFT ERRORS IN LOGIC CIRCUITS: ANALYSIS AND MODELING

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

modeling
reliability
logic circuits
soft errors
analysis

File:

Download Thesis_RRSE.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Charles Lee Croskey, Committee Member
Yuan X Ie, Committee Member
Kenan Unlu, 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:

Kim, Soontae

Title:

ENERGY-EFFICIENT HIGH PERFORMANCE CACHE ARCHITECTURES

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

energy
performance
caches

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Gurumurthi, Sudhanva

Title:

Power Management of Enterprise Storage Systems

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

disk
power
thermal
server
storage

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Bae, Sungmin

Title:

CLOSING THE GAP BETWEEN FPGAs AND ASICs: THE APPLICATIONS OF CLOCK SKEW SCHEDULING ON FPGAs

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

FPGA
clock skew scheduling
low power FPGA
thermal gradient
thermal gradient estimation

File:

Download Sungmin-PhD_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kyusun Choi, Committee Member
Kenan Unlu, 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:

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:

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:

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:

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