Computer Engineering

Seminar Series

Yale University

FORTHCOMING:

2008 April 23^rd, 10.30am, Dl514, Prabhakar Kudva, IBM TJ Watson, “Soft Error Challenges in VLSI Design”, host: Yiorgos Makris

Abstract:

Robust design in the face of radiation induced soft errors continues to

pose an important challenge in VLSI design and architecture. With

technology scaling as well as growth in the number of transistors on a

chip, design techniques at all levels: technology, circuit,

microarchitecture and system are used to ensure correct operation of

systems. In addition to novel circuit designs, error detection and

correction techniques both at the hardware and software level continue

to be investigated to protect systems from potential errors. With

emerging design trends towards voltage scaling and agressive power

management, solutions for reliability should be chosen carefully so as

to accomplish the required protection of systems while meeting power

budgets. This talk will review new challenges posed by soft errors and

hard errors, techniques used in reliable systems design and discuss

current research trends in this area.

Biography:

Prabhakar Kudva is a research staff member at the IBM T.J. Watson

Research Center in the Power and Reliability Aware Microarchitecture

Group. At IBM, he has led design methodology, CAD, architecture research

and development teams to create innovations which have been applied to

the design of the Z and P series systems as well as high-end ASICs. For

this work, he has received numerous IBM awards. He has chaired and

organized many technical conferences as well as participated in IBM

technical advisory boards. Between 2005 and 2007, he taught courses as

an Adjunct at Columbia University and continues to serve on student

dissertation committees at many universities.

PAST VISITORS:

2008 April 14^th, 4pm, Dunham Laboratories DL514, Sheila S. Hemami, Cornell university, Electrical and Computer Engineering, “Incorporating Perception and Cognition into Image and Video Coding: A Task-based Approach”, host: Eugenio Culurciello.

2008 February 22^nd, Sameer Sonkusale, Tufts University, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Nanoscale Integrated Sensors and Circuits Laboratory, “Circuits and Systems for Sensing and Communication in Biological Implants”, host: Eugenio Culurciello.

2008 January 29^th, Mani Soma, University of Washington, “On-chip Analog and Mixed-Signal Measurements: Frequency Domain or Time Domain?”, host: Yiorgos Makris.

2008 January 23^rd, John Harris, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, “Biologically Inspired Sensing and Coding of Signals”, host: Eugenio Culurciello.

2007 December 7^th, Adit Singh, ECE Deprtment, Aubusrn University, “Statistical Screening Methods for “Zero Defect”, Quality in Nanometer Integrated Circuits”, host: Yiorgos Makris.

2007 November 14^th, Matthias Schneider, Institute for Physics, Augsburg University, “Acoustic Driven Microfluidics --- Self Organized Blood Clotting”, host: Eugenio Culurciello.

2007 November 2^nd, Viktor Gruev, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, “Camera-on-Chip: Low Power Sensors for Visual Information Extraction”, host: Eugenio Culurciello.

2007 September 20^th, Rajit Manohar, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, “Reconfigurable Asynchronous Logic”, host: Eugenio Culurciello.

2007 September 21^st, Euripides Sotiriades, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technincal university of Crete, “A General Reconfigurable Architecture for the BLAST Algorithm”, host: Yiorgos Makris.

2007 May 4^th - Arto V. Nurmikko, Division of Engineering and Department of Physics, Brown University, “Interconnecting the Brain by Implantable Microelectronics: A Different Interface Challenge”, host: Eugenio Culurciello and Jung Han

2007 April 24th ^- Yannis Tsividis, Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, “Continuous-time DSPs, Analog/Digital Computers and other Mixed-Domain Systems”, host: Eugenio Culurciello.

2006 October 3rd, - Dr. Ilia Polian, Senior Researcher, Institute of Computer Science, Albert Ludwigs Universitty of Freiburg, Germany, "Transient Error Tolerance" Host prof. Yiorgos Makris.

2006 March 22nd - Prof. Paul Hasler, Georgia Institute of technology, "Analog signal processing for low-power sensor systems" Host prof. Eugenio Culurciello.

2006 Thursday February 23rd - Teresa Ko, Sandia National Laboratories, Hosts: Andreas Savvides and Eugenio Culurciello.

2006 Wednesday February 22nd, "Neuromorphic Vision Systems", Prof. Ralph Etienne-Cummings, Johns Hopkins University. Host prof. Eugenio Culurciello.

2006 Thu. February 16th, "IC’s at Light Speed: Merging VLSI with Photonics", Prof. Alyssa Apsel, Cornell University. Host prof. Eugenio Culurciello.

2006 Wed., January 18th - Prof. Iris Bahar, Brown University. Host prof. Yiorgos Makris "Designing Noise-Tolerant Circuits using Principles of Markov
Random Fields".

2005 Wed., Nov. 30 "Aristotle's Dream: A language for actions - the Behaviorome project" Prof. Yiannis Aloimonos, Computer Vision Laboratory, University of Maryland. Host. Prof. Andreas Savvides and Eugenio Culurciello.

2004 Fri., Sept. 24, Prof. Sudhakar Reddy,Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Iowa, "Post Layout Scan Chain Ordering to Increase Fault Coverage by Two-Pattern Tests," Host. Prof. Yiorgos Makris.

2004 Thurs., Nov. 4, "Development of a MEMS Testing Methodology," Prof. Ronald (Shawn) Blanton, Electrical andComputer Engineering Department, Carnegie Mellon University. Host: Prof. Yiorgos Makris.

2004 Thurs., Dec. 2, "Low Cost Alternate Testing of Analog/Mixed-Signal/RF Circuits and Systems: Fault Models and Test Strategies," Prof. Abhijit Chatterjee, School of Electrical and ComputerEngineering, Georgia Institute of Technology. Host: Prof. Yiorgos Makris.

2004 Friday, Dec. 10, "Taming Complexity Through Abstraction and Hierarchy Applications to Test and Verification," Prof. Jacob A. Abraham, Computer Engineering Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin. Host Prof. Yiorgos Makris

2003 Tues., April 15, "Design for Reliability in Sub-100nm Technologies," Prof. Martin Margala, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Rochester. Host: Prof. Yiorgos Makris.

2002 Wed., Dec. 4, "Minimum Dynamic Power CMOS Circuits," Dr. Vishwani D. Agrawal, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. Host: Prof. Yiorgos Makris.