• Nikhil A. Patil, Ankit Bansal and Derek Chiou.  "Enforcing Architectural Contracts in High-level Synthesis."  Proceedings of the 48th Design Automation Conference, San Diego, CA, June 2011.  Discusses transforming a FAST-like description into a full implementation.
  
• Maysam Lavasani, Larry Dennison, ands Derek Chiou.  "Methodology for Leveraging Reconfigurability in Domain Specific Languages." The First Workshop on the Intersections of Computer Architecture and Reconfigurable Logic (CARL 2010), December 2010. 
  
• Varun Koyyalagunta, Hari Angepat, and Derek Chiou.  "HLS^2 : High-Level Synthesis for High-Level Simulation using FPGAs."  The First Workshop on the Intersections of Computer Architecture and Reconfigurable Logic (CARL 2010), December 2010.
•  Hari Angepat, Gage Eads, Christopher Craik, and Derek Chiou.  "NIFD: Non-Intrusive FPGA Debugger:  Debugging FPGA 'Threads' for Rapid HW/SW Systems Prototyping."  The 20th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications, Milano, Italy, August 2010.
  
• Michael Pellauer, Michael Adler, Derek Chiou, and Joel Emer.  "Soft Connections: Addressing the Hardware-Design Modularity Problem."  Design Automation Conference, San Francisco, CA, July 2009.
  

FAST Performance and Power Modeling

• Dam Sunwoo, Gene Y. Wu, Nikhil A. Patil, and Derek Chiou.  "PrEsto: An FPGA-Accelerated Power Estimation Methodology for Complex Systems."  The 20th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications, Milano, August 2010.  Nominated for Best Paper.
  Derek Chiou, Hari Angepat, Nikhil A. Patil, and Dam Sunwoo.  "Accurate Functional-First Multicore Simulators."  Computer Architecture Letters, July 2009.
• Dam Sunwoo and Joonsoo Kim and Derek Chiou.  "QUICK: A Flexible Full-System Functional Model."  Proceedings of ISPASS, April 2009.
  
• Derek Chiou, Dam Sunwoo, Joonsoo Kim, Nikhil Patil, William Reinhart, Eric Johnson, Jebediah Keefe and Hari Angepat. "FPGA-Accelerated Simulation Technologies (FAST): Fast, Full-System, Cycle-Accurate Simulators." Proceedings of MICRO, December 2007.***
  
• Derek Chiou, Dam Sunwoo, Joonsoo Kim, Nikhil A. Patil, William H. Reinhart, D. Eric Johnson and Zheng Xu. "The FAST Methodology for High-Speed SoC/Computer Simulation." Proceedings of International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), November 2007.***
• Derek Chiou, Huzefa Sanjeliwala, Dan Sunwoo, Zheng Xu and Nikhil Patil.  "FPGA-based Fast, Cycle-Accurate, Full-System Simulators."  Proceedings of the second Workshop on Architectural Research using FPGA Platforms (WARFP) held in conjunction with HPCA 2006, Austin, TX, February 2006.***
• Derek Chiou.  "FAST: FPGA-based Acceleration of Simulator Timing Models."  Proceedings of the first Workshop on Architectural Research using FPGA Platforms (WARFP) held in conjunction with HPCA 2005, San Francisco, CA, February 2005.***

RAMP

• John Wawrzynek, David Patterson, Mark Oskin, Shih-Lien Lu, Christoforos Kozyrakis, James C. Hoe, Derek Chiou and Krste Asanovic.  RAMP: Research Accelerator for Multiple Processors.  IEEE Micro, 27(2):46-57, March/April 2007.
• Hari Angepat and Dam Sunwoo and Derek Chiou. RAMP-White: An FPGA-Based Coherent Shared Memory Parallel Computer Emulator. 8th Annual Austin CAS Conference, March 2007.

• Joel Emer, Mark D. Hill, Yale N. Patt, Joshua J. Yi, Derek Chiou, and Resit Sendag.  "Single-Threaded vs. Multithreaded: Where Should We Focus?."  IEEE Micro, November 2007.
• Shay Gueron, Geoffrey Strongin, Jean-Pierre Seifert, Derek Chiou, Resit Sendag, Joshua Y. Yi.  "Where Does Security Stand? New Vulnerabilities vs. Trusted Computing." IEEE Micro, November 2007.
• Antonio Gonzalez, Scott Mahlke, Shubu Mukherjee, Resit Sendag, Derek Chiou, and Joshua Y. Yi.  "Reliability: "Fallacy or Reality?"  IEEE Micro, November 2007.
• Kevin Skadron, Pradip Bose, Kanad Ghose, Resit Sendag, Joshua Y. Yi, and Derek Chiou.  "Low-Power Design and Temperature Management."  IEEE Micro, November 2007. 
  

Networking

• Nick Duffield (editor), Derek Chiou, Benoit Claise, Albert Greenberg, Matthias Grossglauser, Peram Marimuthu, Jennifer Rexford , and Ganesh Sadasivan.  "IETF Packet Sampling Working Group Framework RFC 5474."  March, 2009.
  
• Itamar Elhanany, Derek Chiou, Vahid Tabatabaee, Raffaele Noro and Ali Poursepanj.  "The Network Processing Forum Switch Fabric Benchmark Specifications: An Overview."  IEEE Network, March 2005.
• Itamar Elhanany, Kurt Busch and Derek Chiou.  "Switch Fabric Interfaces".  IEEE Computer 36(9): 106-108, September 2003.
• Nick Duffield (editor), Derek Chiou, Benoit Claise, Albert Greenberg, Matthias Grossglauser, Peram Marimuthu, Jennifer Rexford, and Ganesh Sadasivan.  “IETF Packet Sampling Working Group Framework Draft. draft-ietf-psamp-framework-10.txt.”  Expires July 2005.
  
• Derek Chiou.  “Network Processing Forum Fabric Benchmarking Performance Metrics.”  NPForum Implementation Agreement.

Caching

• Derek Chiou, Prabhat Jain, Larry Rudolph and Srinivas Devadas. “Application-specific memory management for embedded systems using software-controlled caches.” Proceedings of the 37^th Design Automation Conference, Los Angeles, CA, pages 416-419, June 2000. ***      
  
• Derek Chiou.  “RISCy Memory: Column and Curious Caches.”  Proceedings of the 1998 MIT LCS Student Workshop on High-Performance Computing in Science and Engineering,  January 1998. ***

*T, StarT-NG, StarT-Voyager

• Boon S. Ang, Derek Chiou, Larry Rudolph and Arvind. “Micro-Architectures of High Performance, Multi-User System Area Network Interface Cards.” Proceedings of IPDPS 2000, Cancun, Mexico, pages 13-20, May 2000.
• Boon S. Ang, Derek Chiou, Larry Rudolph and Arvind.  “Message Passing Support in StarT-Voyager.” HiPC98, Madras, India, pages 228-237, December 1998.
• Boon S. Ang, Derek Chiou, Larry Rudolph and Arvind.  “The StarT-Voyager Parallel System.”  Proceedings of  PACT’98, Paris, France, pages 185-194, October 1998.  Presentation won the “Best Student Paper” Award. ***
• Boon S. Ang, Derek Chiou, Daniel Rosenband, Mike Ehrlich, Larry Rudolph, and Arvind. “StarT-Voyager: A Flexible Platform for Exploring Scalable SMP Issues.”  SuperComputing 98, Orlando, Florida, November 1998.
• Derek Chiou et. Al. “StarT-NG: Delivering Seamless Computing”.  In Proceedings of Euro-Par'95, volume 966 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science pages 101-116.  Springer-Verlag, August 1995. ***
• James E. Hicks, Mike Beckerle, Bob Greiner, Horace Thompson, Derek Chiou, Boon Ang, Andy Boughton, Tony Dahbura, and Venkat Natarajan. “Start architecture white paper.” MCRC memo, Motorola Cambridge Research Center, One Kendall Sq., Building 200, Cambridge, MA, 02139, 1994
• Boon S. Ang and Derek Chiou.  “StarT-Voyager.”  Proceedings of the 6^th Annual MIT Student Workshop on Computing Technology, Salem, MA.  August, 1996
• Boon S. Ang and Derek Chiou.  “Finding Deadlocks in Cache-Coherent Distributed Shared Memory Machines.”  Proceedings of the 5^th Annual MIT Student Workshop on Scalable Computing, August 1995.
• Boon Seong Ang, Arvind and Derek Chiou. “StarT the Next Generation: Integrating Global Caches and Dataflow Architecture.”  Advanced Topics in Dataflow Computing and Multithreading, Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Press, 1995.

Monsoon Performance

• James Hicks, Derek Chiou, Boon Seong Ang, and Arvind. “Performance Studies of the Monsoon Dataflow Processor.”  Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 18(3):273-300, 1993.
• Venkat Natarajan, Derek Chiou and Boon Seong Ang. “Performance Visualization on Monsoon”. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 18(2):169-180, 1993.

Compilation

• Derek Chiou.  “Using GCC as an Efficient, Portable Back-End.”  Proceedings of the 5^th Annual MIT Student Workshop on Scalable Computing, August 1995.