Nanosystem Design and Variability

Workshop, 18 March 2011, EPFL INF 328

Please note the room change to INF 328!

 

Program:

 

Morning: Technology Session
9:00-9:20 Nanosystems: technologies, devices, architectures and applications

Giovanni De Micheli
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland

9:20-9:40 On-Chip Monitoring for Self-Improvement

Dennis Sylvester
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan - USA

9:40-10:00 Nanometer-scale CMOS vs Silicon nanowire technologies:
Novel approaches for mitigating delay variations

Yusuf Leblebici
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland

10:00-10:20 DISCUSSION
10:20-10:40 Coffee break
10:40-11:00 Thermal-Aware Design for 3D Multi-Processor ICs in Datacenters

David Atienza
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland

11:00-11:20 Robust System Design

Subhashish Mitra
Stanford University, Stanford, California - USA

11:20-11:40 Process Variation Effects in 3-D Clock Distribution Networks

Vasilis Pavlidis
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland

11:40-12:00   DISCUSSION
12:00-14:00 Lunch Break

 

Afternoon: Systems Session
14:00-14:20 Characterization and Visualization of Power use Variability in High Performance Platforms

Rajesh Gupta
University of California, San Diego, California - USA

14:20-14:40 Telecommunications in the Deep Submicron Regime

Heinrich Meyr1, Andreas Burg2

1  RWTH Aachen University, Germany
2  Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland

14:40-15:00 Under-designed and Opportunistic Computing Machines

Puneet Gupta
University of California, Los Angeles, California - USA

15:00-15:20 DISCUSSION
15:20-15:40 Coffee break
15:40-16:00 Variability Models and Sensors with Impacts on Hardware Security

Wayne Burleson
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts - USA

16:00-16:20 Integrating End-to-End and Cross-Layer Optimizations for Reliable Cyber-Physical Systems

Nikil Dutt
University of California, Irvine, California - USA

16:20-16:40 Variability in Datacenters

Tajana Šimunić Rosing
University of California, San Diego, California - USA

16:40-17:00 DISCUSSION