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SUMMARY:Power-\, Temperature-\, and Reliability-Aware Design and Managemen
 t of Integrated Circuits
DTSTART:20090427T141500
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Robert Dick\nAbstract:\nPower consumption is the root ca
 use of substantial problems facing digital system designers. Rapid power v
 ariation brings transient errors. High power densities bring high temperat
 ures\, harming reliability and increasing leakage power consumption. The w
 ages of power are bulky\, short-lived batteries\, huge heat sinks\, large 
 on-die capacitors\, high server electric bills\, and unreliable microproce
 ssors. The design of high-quality digital systems depends on accurate and 
 efficient models and analysis techniques\, as well as design-time and run-
 time optimization of power and thermal characteristics. In this talk\, we 
 give a taxonomy of the problems caused by high power consumption and tempe
 rature. We then present some recent progress in rapid thermal analysis for
  use in architectural design\; design-time techniques to control power\, t
 emperature\, and reliability\; and run-time techniques for characterizatio
 n and management of integrated circuit power consumption and temperature. 
 Finally\, we will briefly summarize recent work on (1) the use of new memo
 ry hierarchy organizations to enhance functionality\, security\, and perfo
 rmance and (2) the design of languages to support wireless sensor network 
 design by those who most need them\, i.e.\, application experts who are no
 t experienced programmers.\n\nBiography:\nRobert Dick is an Associate Prof
 essor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of 
 Michigan. He received his Ph.D. degree from Princeton University and his B
 .S. degree from Clarkson University. He worked as a Visiting Professor at 
 Tsinghua University's Department of Electronic Engineering\, as a Visiting
  Researcher at NEC Labs America\, and as an Associate Professor at Northwe
 stern University. Robert received an NSF CAREER award and won his departme
 nt's Best Teacher of the Year award in 2004. His technology won a Computer
 world Horizon Award and his paper was selected by DATE as one of the 30 mo
 st influential in the past 10 years in 2007. He served as a technical prog
 ram subcommittee chair for the International Conference on Hardware/Softwa
 re Codesign and System Synthesis. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transa
 ctions on VLSI Systems and serves on the technical program committees of s
 everal embedded systems and CAD/VLSI conferences.\n\nRobert Dick's homepag
 e
LOCATION:BM 1 119
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