Research Topics
Technology Areas:
Track 1: Silicon & System Design
Track 2: Platform Validation
Track 3: Software Solution
Track 1: Silicon & System Design
1. Processor, Memory, IO subsystem architecture, simulations for architectures
2. Platform Power Management and energy efficient general purpose computing
3. Chip multiprocessing – CMP architecture, including interconnect and scalability issues including transactional memory
4. Verification issues and physical design challenges for SOC designs
5. CMOS analog and digital circuits
6. Scalable platform architecture for multi processor (MP) platforms for higher performance
7. Micro-architecture techniques (multi-core and multithread) for low power - Power-aware performance tuning of Chip Multi Processor (CMP) interconnect, and cache architectures
8. System architecture and Micro-architecture for Power Management and Energy efficient computing
9. Battery life optimization techniques for mobile platform
10. Full platform performance and power modeling (including I/O) and tuning
11. Ubiquitous computing
12. Silicon Packaging Research
Track 2: Platform Validation
1. Efficient (decrease in cost, time of validation and increased bug finding in less time) validation methodology for many core and multi-processor platforms (both pre and post silicon)
2. Efficient (decrease in cost, time to debug failure, ease of debug etc) debug methodologies for many core and multi core and multi processor platforms
3. Quantitative logic validation coverage feedback techniques in Post Si domain
4. Multiprocessor power consumption simulation using open source simulators
5. Thermal dissipation simulation using open source simulators
6. 3D Graphics and High-definition media workload analyses
Track 3: Software Solution
1. Thread/task optimization for Multi-core
2. Taking advantage of Multi-core in Enterprise/System Software
3. Compression (Image/Data) algorithms implementation Analyses on Multicore
4. Cloud Computing – Imperatives for traditional Software Design
5. Security and remote management software for Virtual Machines (OS Independent, OOB Management, I/O virtualization etc)
6. GPU and CPU Load sharing and Load balancing techniques |
