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On Optimizing the Performance of Interference-Limited Wireless Systems

Name: Rana A. Abdelaal Date: January 30, 2017 Time: 1:00 PM Location: Engineering Hall 3106 Committee: Professor Ahmed Eltawil Abstract: Multi Input Multi Output (MIMO) technology has seen prolific use to achieve higher data rates and an improved communication experience for cellular systems. However, one of the challenging problems in MIMO systems is interference. Interference limits the […]

Runtime Memory Management in Many-core Systems

Name: Hossein Tajik Date: November 15, 2016 Time: 3:00PM - 4:00PM Location: DBH 3011 Conference Room Committee: Nikil Dutt (Chair), Tony Givargis, Alex Nicolau Abstract: With the increasing number of cores on a chip, we are moving towards an era where many-core platforms will soon be ubiquitous. Efficient use of tens to hundreds of cores on […]

Low Power Reliable Design using Pulsed Latch Circuits

Name: Wael Mahmoud Elsharkasy Date: February 15, 2017 Time: 11:00 AM Location: Engineering Hall 3206 Committee: Prof. Fadi J. Kurdahi, Prof. Ahmed Eltawil, Rainer Doemer Abstract: System-on-Chip (SoC) faced lots of challenges over the past decade. With nowadays applications centered around Internet-of-Everything (IoE), these challenges are expected to be more critical. Among these challenges are the reduction of power consumption […]

Optimizing Many-Threads-to-Many-Cores Mapping in Parallel Electronic System Level Simulation

Name: Guantao Liu Date: March 2, 2017 Time: 4:00 PM Location: Engineering Hall 3206 Committee: Rainer Doemer (Chair), Kwei-Jay Lin, Mohammad Al Faruque Abstract: In hardware/software co-design, Discrete Event Simulation (DES) has been in use for decades to verify and validate the functionality of Electronic System Level (ESL) models. Since the parallel computing platforms are readily available […]

Quoc-Viet Dang PhD Defense

Name: Quoc-Viet Dang Date: May 30, 2017 Time: 02:00 P.M Location: Engineering Hall 3206 Committee: Professor Daniel Gajski (Chair), Fadi Kurdahi, Rainer Doemer Abstract: Public education is on the brink of […]

SIMD Assisted Fault Detection and Fault Attack Mitigation

Name: Zhi Chen Date: May 15, 2018 Time: 2:30pm Location: Donald Bren Hall 3011 Committee: Professor Alex Nicolau (Chair), Alex Veidenbaum, Nikil Dutt Abstract: Modern processors continue to aggressively scale down the feature […]