University of Texas
ECE

Research Review for Industry

Computer Architecture and VLSI/CAD Research Areas

Tues, Aug 28, 2007
Agenda

9:20am Welcome. Professor Anthony P. Ambler, Chairman of ECE: ACE 2.302
9:30am Designing integrated systems for the next generation of applications:
Professor Jacob Abraham
10:20am Harnessing the next wave of process technology improvements over the next decade: What will the microprocessor look like?
Professor Yale Patt
11:10am Coffee break - ACE 2.402
11:40am Dual tracks  
 

Computer Architecture: ACE 2.302

1. Derek Chiou:
FPGA-Accelerated Simulation Technologies (FAST): An Overview
2. Dam Sunwoo:
FAST Functional Models
3. Nikhil Patil: FAST Timing Models
4. William Reinhart:
Abstracting Timing and Statistics in a Hardware Simulator
5. Hari Angepat: RAMP-White

VLSI/CAD: RLM 4.102

1. Nur Touba, Research in Test Compression and Error Detection
2. Jacob Abraham, Self-Test of Embedded Systems
3. Shobha Vasudevan, High-Level Analysis for Reducing Verification
Complexity,
4. Adnan Aziz, Reduced Models for Functional Verification

1:10pm Lunch - ACE Connector Lobby  
2:10pm Dual tracks  
 

Computer Architecture: ACE 2.302

1. Lizy John, LCA Research in Computer Architecture, Performance Evaluation
and Workload Characterization
2. Ajay Joshi, Applying Workload Synthesis for Microprocessor Performance
Evaluation
3. Lloyd Bircher, Complete System Power Measurement, Modeling and Management
4. Ciji Isen, Embedded Java Workloads: Peeling through the layers of execution
5. Dimitris Kaseridis, Performance analysis and exploration of multiple
threads/cores using Sun UltraSPARC T1 (Niagara)"

VLSI/CAD: RLM 4.102

1. David Pan,
Nanometer IC Physical Design and Manufacturing Closure
2. Minsik Cho,
Model Based DFM Aware Routing
3. Michael Orshansky,
Statistical Design Methods for Power Reduction
and Yield Improvement
4. Murari Mani, Joint Design-Time and Post-Silicon Parametric Yield
Optimization

3:30pm Break - RLM 4.102 Foyer  
3:50pm Dual tracks  
 

Computer Architecture: ACE 2.302

1. Mattan Erez, Saving Power and Overcoming the von Neumann Bottleneck with Hierarchical Bulk Operations
2. Moinuddin Qureshi, Adaptive Caching for High-Performance Memory Systems
3. Francis Tseng, Braids: Out-of-order Performance with (almost) In-Order Complexity
4. Aater Suleman, ACMP: An Architecture to Handle Amdahl's Law
5. Jose Joao, Dynamic Predication of Indirect Jumps; removing a performance bottleneck in Object-oriented code

VLSI/CAD: RLM 4.102

1. Shouli Yan,
Mixed Signal Integrated Circuits Research
2. Ranjit Gharpurey,
An Overview of Research in RF and High-Speed Analog Circuit Design
3. Arjang Hassibi,
Integrated Biochips
4. Ramtilak Vemu,
Application-Level Fault Tolerance

5:15pm Wind-up - ACE 2.302  
6:00pm Small dinner parties as desired