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Sep 15, 2011 Variability Research to Be Showcased at 49th Annual Allerton Conference At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on Sept. 29, Variability investigators will deliver invited papers, including 'Tackling Intercell Variability in TLC Flash through Error Correcting Codes' (UCLA and UCSD co-authors)and 'Probabilistic Design of Robust Circuits and Systems' (UCLA and Stanford). [more] Sep 13, 2011 UIUC Members Win Best Paper Co-PI Rakesh Kumar at UIUC co-authored a paper on 'Algorithmic Techniques for Fault Detection for Sparse Linear Algebra', which received the Best Paper in Session Award at the Semiconductor Research Corp.'s TECHCON conference, which took place in Austin, TX, in mid-September 2011. [more] Aug 20, 2011 Variability Outreach at UCLA Completes Inaugural Program Under the umbrella of the Variability Expedition, UCLA's new Los Angeles Computing Circle (LACC) outreach program completed its inaugural 8-week program on August 19. Eight high-schoolers from around California worked in the labs of Variability co-PIs Lara Dolecek, Puneet Gupta and Mani Srivastava. They learned various aspects of programming through specially-designed teaching modules and challenging programming assignments. The program culminated in a poster session. [more] Jul 27, 2011 La Jolla Light Features Variability Outreach The La Jolla Light newspaper took note of the Variability Expedition's MyLab outreach activity at UCSD, where girls aged 7 to 16 from underserved communities spent six weeks learning the basics of building simple electromechanical systems. [more] Jul 27, 2011 Rajesh Gupta Upcoming Talks in China, NSF Variability Expedition PI Rajesh Gupta will deliver a CISE Distinguished Lecture next Jan. 19, 2012, at the National Science Foundation. Meanwhile, he has a trip to China and two talks there on his agenda. On Aug. 8, Gupta will focus on Variability for an audience in the Computer Science department of the City University of Hong Kong; and on Aug. 4 he'll deliver the first keynote at the IEEE/ACM GreenCom conference, in Chengdu, China (see Events for more details). Jul 24, 2011 Variability PI Chairs CASES 2011 Program Variability Expedition PI Rajesh Gupta from UC San Diego is the Program Chair for the International Conference on Compilers, Architectures and Synthesis of Embedded Systems (CASES). The forum for emerging technology in embedded computing systems takes place Oct. 9-14 in Taipei, Taiwan. In related news, the conference has accepted "FFT-Cache: A Flexible Fault-tolerant Cache Architecture for Ultra Low Voltage Operation," a paper by UCI's Abbas BanaiyanMofrad, Houman Homayoun and Nikil Dutt. [more] Jul 23, 2011 Variability Outreach Blends Fashion, Engineering At UCSD, MyLab @ Variability Expedition, with support from ViaSat, got young girls age 7 to 16 excited about the basics of electro-mechanical engineering. Two dozen girls from an underserved community were part of the six-week, hands-on engineering program at Calit2 that culminated this week, when they took part in opening day of the racing season at Del Mar -- and showed off their hats driven by gears and electronics in the annual hat contest. [more] Jul 22, 2011 UC Irvine Paper Accepted at CODES Luis Bathen reports that CODES has accepted a paper titled "SPMVISOR: Dynamic Scratchpad Memory Virtualization for Secure, Low Power and High Performance, Distributed On-Chip Memories." Bathen's co-authors include Dongyun Shin, Sung-Soo Lim and Nikil Dutt. CODES+ISSS -- the International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis -- is part of Embedded Systems Week, scheduled for Oct. 9-14 in Taipei, Taiwan. Jun 5, 2011 SRC on Design-Dependent Process Monitoring The Semiconductor Research Corp. issued a press release on "Design-Dependent Process Monitoring" for semiconductor wafer manufacturing. The work took place in UCLA's Nano CAD Lab and quoting Variability Expedition co-PI Puneet Gupta. According to the release, the "research promises semiconductor manufacturing cost and production savings up to 15 percent, potentially increasing profit per chip significantly." [more] Jun 3, 2011 Phase Change Memory-Based Moneta System Points to Future of Computer Storage A team led by Variability Expedition co-PI Steven Swanson and PI Rajesh Gupta, both at UCSD, is about to demonstrate a first-of-its-kind, phase-change memory solid state storage device that provides performance thousands of times faster than a conventional hard drive. Grad students working on the project include Variability's Arup De. [more] May 26, 2011 Rakesh Kumar gives a Keynote talk at LPonTR, Norway. Rakesh Kumar has been invited to be a Keynote Speaker at the 4th IEEE Workshop on Impact of Low Power Design on Test and Reliability (LPonTR) to be held on May 26th-27th in Trondheim, Norway. [more] May 26, 2011 UCI Researcher Presents Work at DAC-Affiliated Poster Sessions Luis A.D. Bathen, a Ph.D. candidate at UC Irvine affiliated with the Variability Expedition, will present his work at two events during the Design Automation Conference 2011, held in San Diego this year. On June 5 he'll present his poster, TrustGeM: Dynamic Trusted Environment Generation for Chip-Multiprocessors, at the 4th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust (HOST). The research is co-authored by Variability investigator Nikil Dutt. Then on June 7, Bathen will present at the SIGDA-DAC PhD Forum. The title of his poster: SeReVraL: Secure, Reliable and Dynamic Virtualization Layer for On-Chip Distributed Memories. [more] May 26, 2011 Rakesh Kumar gives a Keynote talk at IEEE/IFIP DSN, Hong Kong Rakesh Kumar has been invited to give a Keynote at the Workshop on Dependable and Secure Nanocomputing (WDSN). The 2011 workshop will be held in conjunction with DSN (IEEE/IFIP Symposium on Dependable Systems and Networks) on June 26 in Hong Kong. [more] May 25, 2011 EETimes: IBM to test wafer pruning R. Colin Johnson reports in EETimes that a new wafer pruning technique developed at UCLA with funding from SRC is currently being characterized by IBM for its 45-nanometer process, using on-wafer monitoring structures that can be probed during fabrication to spot bad wafers early-on. UCLA's Puneet Gupta is quoted as saying 'wafer pruning ultimately leads to less expensive and higher performing electronics devices, especially if the pruning can be done during the early stages of manufacturing.' [more] May 16, 2011 Co-PI Industry Interactions with STMicroelectronics In March 2011, co-PI Dennis Sylvester from the University of Michigan visited STMicroelectronics in France. Subsequently, in March through May, Sylvester hosted a visitor from STMicroelectronics, Mehdi Saligane, to work on porting the lab's aging sensors to 32nm. May 4, 2011 Mitra Student Wins Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award Co-PI Subhasish Mitra at Stanford advised Nishant Patil, who was selected for the ACM SIGDA top Ph.D. dissertation of 2011. Patil's dissertation focused on 'Design and Fabrication of Imperfection-Immune Carbon Nanotube Digital VLSI Circuits'. He was cited for presenting design and processing techniques to overcome fundamental challenges in creating digital VLSI circuits using carbon nanotube field effect transistors (CNFETs). [more] |
