Wednesday, Sept 4, 2013

Keynote 1
0845-0945

Energy Efficient Computing: From Milliwatt to Megawatt

Feng Zhao, Microsoft Research
Session 1
1015-1155

Energy Efficient Processors and GPGPUs

Session Chairs: Duo Liu (Chongqing University), Steven P Levitan (University of Pittsburgh)
1A.1 Compiler Assisted Dynamic Register File in GPGPU
Naifeng Jing1, Haopeng Liu1, Yao Lu1, XiaoYao Liang1
1Shanghai Jiao Tong University
1A.2 An Energy Efficient GPGPU Memory Hierarchy With Tiny Incoherent Caches
Alamelu Sankaranarayanan1, Ehsan K Ardestani1, José Luis Briz Velasco2, Jose Renau1
1University of California, Santa Cruz, 2University of Zaragoza
1A.3 Design and Analysis of 3D IC-Based Low Power Stereo Matching Processors
Seung-Ho Ok1, Kyeong-ryeol Bae1, Sung Kyu Lim2, Byungin Moon1
1Kyungpook National University, 2Georgia Institute of Technology
1A.4 Design and Analysis of Ultra Low Power Processors Using Sub/Near-Threshold 3D Stacked ICs
Sandeep Kumar Samal, Yarui Peng, Yang Zhang, Sung Kyu Lim
Georgia Institute of Technology

Low Power Design Automation

Session Chair: Yongpan Liu (Tsinghua University), co-chair: Guoqing Chen (AMD Research China Lab)
1B.1 Automated Checkpointing for Enabling Intensive Applications on Energy Harvesting Devices
Azalia Mirhoseini, Ebrahim Songhori, Farinaz Koushanfar
Rice University
1B.2 SIMES: A Simulator for Hybrid Electrical Energy Storage Systems
Siyu Yue1, Di Zhu1, Yanzhi Wang1, Younghyun Kim2, Naehyuck Chang2, Massoud Pedram1
1University of Southern California, 2Seoul National University
1B.3 Power Mapping and Modeling of Multi-core Processors
Kapil Dev, Abdullah Nowroz, Sherief Reda
Brown University
1B.4 Early Detection of Current HotSpots in Power Gated Designs
Dipanjan Sengupta1, Erhan Ergin2, Andreas Veneris1
1University of Toronto, 2Advanced Micro Devices
Session 2
1330-1445

SRAM and Emerging Memory

Session Co-chairs: Srini Sridhara (TI), Sean Lee (TSMC Taiwan)
2A.1 A 40nm 0.32V 3.5MHz 11T Single-Ended Bit-Interleaving Subthreshold SRAM with Data-Aware Write-Assist
Yi-Wei Chiu, Yu-Hao Hu, Ming-Hsien Tu, Jun-Kai Zhao, Shyh-Jye Jou, Ching-Te Chuang
National Chiao Tung University
2A.2 SRAM Cell Optimization for low AVT Transistors
Lawrence Clark, Samuel Leshner, George Tien
SuVolta Inc.
2A.3 Multi-level Magnetic RAM Using Domain Wall Shift for Energy Efficient, High Density Caches
Mrigank Sharad, Rangharajan Venkatesan, Anand Raghunathan, Kaushik Roy
Purdue University

Energy-Aware Task Scheduling and DVFS

Session: Massimo Poncino (Politecnico di Torino), co-chair: Junli Gu (AMD Research China Lab)
2B.1 A Framework of Concurrent Task Scheduling and Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling in Real-Time Embedded Systems with Energy Harvesting
Xue Lin1, Yanzhi Wang1, Siyu Yue1, Naehyuck Chang2, Massoud Pedram1
1University of Southern California, 2Seoul National University
2B.3 Characterizing and Evaluating Voltage Noise in Multi-Core Near-Threshold Processors
Xuan Zhang, Tao Tong, Svilen Kanev, Saekyu Lee, Gu-Yeon Wei, David Brooks
Harvard University
Session 3
1515-1630

Renewable Energy and Storage Management

Session Chair: Tohru Ishihara (Kyoto University), co-chair: Guangyu Sun (Peking University)
3A.1 Maximum Power Transfer Tracking in a Solar USB Charger for Smartphones
Sangyoung Park1, Bumkyu Koh1, Yanzhi Wang2, Jaemin Kim1, Younghyun Kim1, Massoud Pedram2, Naehyuck Chang1
1Seoul National University, 2University of Southern California
3A.2 A Statistical Model of Cell-to-Cell Variation in Li-Ion Batteries for System-Level Design
Donghwa Shin1, Massimo Poncino1, Enrico Macii1, Naehyuck Chang2
1Politecnico di Torino, 2Seoul National University
3A.3 Chameleon: Adapting Throughput Server to Time-Varying Green Power Budget Using Online Learning
Chao Li1, Rui Wang2, Nilanjan Goswami1, Xian Li2, Tao Li1, Depei Qian2
1University of Florida, 2Beihang University

Software Power Analysis and Optimization for Mobile Devices

Yiran Chen (Univ. of Pittsburgh), co-chair: Yao Guo (Peking University)
3B.1 Content-Driven Adaptive Computation Offloading for Energy-Aware Hybrid Distributed Video Coding
Muhammad Shafique, Muhammad Usman Karim Khan, Jörg Henkel
KIT-Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
3B.2 Update Rate Tradeoffs for Improving Online Power Modeling in Smartphones
Frank Maker, Rajeevan Amirtharajah, Venkatesh Akella
University of California, Davis
3B.3 Power Estimation for Mobile Applications with Profile-Driven Battery Traces
Chengke Wang, Fengrun Yan, Yao Guo, Xiangqun Chen
Peking University
Session 4
1645-1800

Special Session: Industry Presentations

Session Co-Chairs: Yuan Xie (AMD) and Tanay Karnik (Intel)
4A.1 Breaking the Boundary for Whole-System Performance Optimization of Big Data
Yan Li1, Kun Wang1, Qi Guo1, Xin Li1, Xiaochen Zhang2, Guancheng Chen1, Tao Liu1, Jian Li3
1IBM Research China, 2City University of New York, 3IBM Research Austin
4A.2 Low-Power Networks-on-Chip: Progress and Remaining Challenges
Mark Buckler1, Wayne Burleson1, 2, Greg Sadowski1
1AMD Research, 2University of Massachusetts

Embedded Tutorial: Beyond Charge-Based Computing

Arijit Raychowdhury1, Kaushik Roy2
1Georgia Insitute of Technology, 2Purdue University
Industry Reception
1800-2000

Industry Reception and Cocktail Hour

TBD

Thursday, Sept 5, 2013

Keynote 2
0830-0930

Advanced Technology for Greener Application

Yongjoo Jeon, Samsung Electronics, Director, Foundry Marketing, System LSI Division
Session 5
1000-1140

Would Emerging Technologies Revolutionize How We Achieve Low Power?

Session Chair: Deming Chen (UIUC)
5A.4 Graphene Nano-Ribbon Field-Effect Transistors as Future Low-Power Devices
Deming Chen1, Ying-Yu Chen1, Amit Sangai1, Morteza Gholipour1, 2
1University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2University of Teheran

Analog and Mixed Signal Circuits

Session Chair: Lei Wang (Univ. of Connecticut), co-chair: Haibo Wang (Southern Illinois University)
5B.1 Tunnel FET-based Ultra-Low Power, High-Sensitivity UHF RFID Rectifier
Huichu Liu, Ramesh Vaddi, Suman Datta, Vijaykrishnan Narayanan
The Pennsylvania State University
5B.2 An Energy-efficient 5-MHz to 20-MHz, 12-bit Reconfigurable Continuous-time Sigma-delta Modulator for 4G-LTE Application
Jing Li1, Ruiyuan Zhu1, Ting Yi1, Bill Liu2, Zhiliang Hong1
1Fudan University, 2Analog Device (Shanghai)
5B.3 Switched-Capacitor Boost Converter Design and Modeling for Indoor Optical Energy Harvesting with Integrated Photodiodes
Stanley Hsu, Erin Fong, Vipul Jain, Travis Kleeburg, Rajeevan Amirtharajah
University of California, Davis
5B.4 A Practical Low-Power Memristor-based Analog Neural Branch Predictor
Jianxing Wang1, Yenni Tim1, Weng-Fai Wong1, Hai (Helen) Li2
1National University of Singapore, 2University of Pittsburgh
Session 6
1330-1445

Timing Enhancement from Circuits to Architecture

Session Co-Chairs: Wayne Burleson (UMass/AMD), Will Luo (TI)
6A.1 Minimum Supply Voltage for Sequential Logic Circuits in a 22nm Technology
Chia-Hsiang Chen1, Keith Bowman2, Charles Augustine2, Zhengya Zhang1, Jim Tschanz2
1University of Michigan, 2Intel
6A.2 REEL: Reducing Effective Execution Latency of Floating Point Operations
Vignyan Reddy Kothinti Naresh1, Syed Zohaib Gilani1, Erika Gunadi1, Nam Sung Kim1, Michael J Schulte2, Mikko H Lipasti1
1University of Wisconsin Madison, 2AMD
6A.3 Single-Cycle, Pulse-Shaped Critical Path Monitor in the Power7+ Microprocessor
Alan Drake1, Michael Floyd2, Richard Williaman2, Derek Hathaway2, Joshua Hernandez2, Crystal Soja3, Marshall Tiner2, Gary Carpenter1, Robert Senger1
1IBM Research, 2IBM Systems and Technology Group, 3Continuum IO

Energy Efficient Branch Prediction, Pipeline, and DRAM

Session Co-Chairs: Xiaoyao Liang (Shanghai Jiaotong Univ), Sungjoo Yoo (POSTECH)
6B.1 A Pipeline Architecture with 1-Cycle Timing Error Correction for Low Voltage Operations
Insup Shin1, Jae-Joon Kim2, Yu-Shiang Lin3, Youngsoo Shin1
1KAIST, 2POSTECH, 3IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
6B.2 Coordinated Refresh: Energy Efficient Techniques for DRAM Refresh Scheduling
Ishwar Bhati1, Zeshan Chishti2, Bruce Jacob1
1University of Maryland, 2Intel
6B.3 An Energy-efficient Branch Prediction Technique via Global-history Noise Reduction
Zichao Xie, Dong Tong, Xu Cheng
Microprocessor Research & Development Center, Peking University, China
Session 7
1515-1630

Performance and Power Efficient Nonvolatile Memories

Session Co-Chairs: Guangyu Sun (Peking Univ), Jae-Joon Kim (POSTECH)
7A.1 WoM-SET: Low Power Proactive-SET-based PCM Write using WoM Code
Xianwei Zhang1, Lei Jiang2, Youtao Zhang1, Chuanjun Zhang3, Jun Yang2
1Department of Computer Science, 2University of Pittsburgh, 3Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, 4University of Pittsburgh, 5Intel Labs
7A.2 Write Intensity Prediction for Energy-Efficient Non-Volatile Caches
Junwhan Ahn1, Sungjoo Yoo2, Kiyoung Choi1
1Seoul National University, 2POSTECH
7A.3 Variable-Energy Write STT-RAM Architecture with Bit-Wise Write-Completion Monitoring
Tianhao Zheng, Jaeyoung Park, Michael Orshansky, Mattan Erez
University of Texas at Austin

Special Session: Energy Efficient Computing Paradigm above the Horizontal Line

Session Co-Chairs: Yu Wang (Tsinghua Univ), Huazhong Yang (Tsinghua University)
7B.1 Associative Processing with Coupled Oscillators
Steven P. Levitan1, Yan Fang1, John A. Carpenter1, Chet N. Gnegy1, Natalie S. Janosik1, Soyo Awosika-Olumo1, Donald M. Chiarulli1, Gyorgy Csaba2, Wolfgang Porod2
1University of Pittsburgh, 2Notre Dame University
7B.2 TFET-based Cellular Neural Network Architectures
Indranil Palit, X. Sharon Hu, Joseph Nahas, Michael Niemier
University of Notre Dame
7B.3 Memristor-based Approximated Computation
Boxun Li1, Yi Shan1, Miao Hu2, Yu Wang1, Yiran Chen2, Huazhong Yang1
1Tsinghua University, 2University of Pittsburgh
Session 8
1645-1800

Design Contest

Session Co-Chairs: Yiran Chen (Univ. of Pittsburgh), Mingsoo Seok (Columbia University)
A 20uW 10Mhz Relaxation Oscillator with Adaptive Bias and Fast Self-Calibration in 40nm CMOS for Micro-Aerial Robotics Application
Xuan Zhang, David Brooks, Gu-Yeon Wei
Harvard University
An Adaptive PLL in 32nm SOI for Optimal Processor Power and Performance under Resonant Supply Noise
Bongjin Kim, Weichao Xu, Chris H. Kim
University of Minnesota
An Energy Efficient Fully Integrated OOK Transceiver SoC for Wireless Body Area Networks
Bo Zhao, Yinan Sun, Wei Zou, Yongpan Liu, Pengpeng Chen, Huazhong Yang
Tsinghua University
Energy Harvesting for Remote-Monitoring Cathodic Protection Systems
Sehwan Kim1,2, Pai H. Chou1
1University of California, Irvine and 2Dankook University

Poster Session

Page Policy Control with Memory Partitioning for DRAM Performance and Power Efficiency
Mingli Xie, Dong Tong, Yi Feng, Kan Huang, Xu Cheng
Peking University
Exploring Synergistic DVFS Control of Cores and DRAMs for Thermal Efficiency in CMPs with 3D-stacked DRAMs
Ping-Sheng Lin1, Yi-Jung Chen2, Chia-Lin Yang1, Yi-Chang Lu1
1National Taiwan University, 2National Chi Nan University
Composable Accelerator-rich Microprocessor Enhanced for Adaptivity and Longevity
Jason Cong, Mohammad Ali Ghodrat, Michael Gill, Beayna Grigorian, Hui Huang, Glenn Reinman
UCLA
Platform-Dependent, Leakage-Aware Control of the Driving Current of Embedded Thermoelectric Coolers
Mohammad Javad Dousti, Massoud Pedram
University of Southern California
Understanding the Critical Path in Power State Transition Latencies
Sam (Likun) Xi, Marisabel Guevara, Jared Nelson, Patrick Pensabene, Benjamin Lee
Duke University
Robustness-Driven Energy-Efficient Ultra-Low Voltage Standard Cell Design with Intra-Cell Mixed-Vt Methodology
Wenfeng Zhao, Yajun Ha, Chin Hau Hoo, Anastacia B. Alvarez
National University of Singapore
Energy-Efficient Pass-Transistor-Logic Using Decision Feedback Equalization
Zafar Takhirov, Bobak Nazer, Ajay Joshi
Boston University
A Hybrid Display Frame Buffer Architecture for Energy-Efficient Display Subsystem
Kyungtae Han, Alexander Min, Nithyananda Jeganathan, Paul Diefenbaugh
Intel
An Analytical Solution for Multi-Core Energy Calculation with Consideration of Leakage and Temperature Dependency
Ming Fan, Vivek Chaturvedi, Shi Sha, Gang Quan
Florida International University
A Biomass-based Marine Sediment Energy Harvesting System
Guoxian Huang, Ridvan Umaz, Udayarka Karra, Baikun Li, Lei Wang
University of Connecticut
An Automated Framework for Generating Variable-Accuracy Battery Models from Datasheet Information
Massimo Petricca, Donghwa Shin, Alberto Bocca, Alberto Macii, Enrico Macii, Massimo Poncino
Politecnico di Torino
A Novel Envelope Edge Detector for Ultra-low Power Sensor Wake-up Circuit
Yao Wang1, Haibo Wang2, Guangjun Wen1
1University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, 2Southern Illinois University
ESPN: A Case for Energy-Star Photonic on-chip Network
Zhongqi Li and Tao Li1
1Qualcomm Inc., 2University of Florida
Rethinking DC-DC Converter Design Constraints for Adaptable Systems that Target the Minimum-Energy Point
Matthew J. Turnquist1, Markus Hiienkari1, Jani Mäkipää2, Hanh-Phuc Le3, Lauri Koskinen1
1Aalto University, 2VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, 3Berkeley Wireless Research Center
Quantifying Acceleration: Power/Performance Tradeoffs of Application Kernels in Hardware
Brandon Reagen, Sophia Shao, Gu-Yeon Wei, David Brooks
Harvard University
Understanding Query Complexity and its Implications for Energy-Efficient Web Search
Emily Bragg1, Marisabel Guevara2, Benjamin Lee2
1Georgia Institute of Technology, 2Duke University
Litho-Aware and Low Power Design of a Secure Current-Based Physically Unclonable Function
Raghavan Kumar, Wayne Burleson
University of Massachusetts Amherst
A Low Power ECG Acquisition System Implemented with a Fully Integrated Analog Front-End
Yayu Cheng, Jun Wang, Meiying Wen, Ye Li
Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Hardware Acceleration for Similarity Measurement in Natural Language Processing
Prateek Tandon1, Jichuan Chang2, Ronald Dreslinski1, Vahed Qazvinian1, Parthasarathy Ranganathan2, Thomas Wenisch1
1University of Michigan, 2HP Labs
vCap: Adaptive Power Capping for Virtualized Servers
Can Hankendi1, Sherief Reda1, Ayse Coskun2
1Boston University, 2Brown University
Power Reduction by Aggressive Synthesis Design Space Exploration
Matthew Ziegler, George Gristede, Victor Zyuban
IBM
Event
1800-2100

Social Event

Banquet at Ting Li Guan, Awards Presentation

Friday, Sept 6, 2013

Keynote 3
0845-0945

Holistic Approach to Low-Power System Design

Cheng-Wen Wu, Vice President and General Director of ICL, Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI); and Tsing Hua Chair Professor, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Session 9
1000-1205

Low Voltage Techniques

Session Co-Chairs: Matt Ziegler (IBM), Jae-Joon Kim (POSTECH)
9A.2 (Invited) Heterogeneous Integration of Nano Enabling Devices for 3D ICs
Albert Wang1, Li Wang1, Rui Ma1, Chen Zhang1, Zongyu Dong1, Xin Wang2, Zitao Shi3, Jian Liu4, Lin Lin5, Hui Zhao3, Fei Lu1, Qiang Fang6, Chen Yang7, Jin Zhan8, Tianling Ren9, Xinxin Li8, Ru Huang10
1University of California, 2Riverside, 3OmniVision Technologies, 4Marvell Semiconductor, 5RFMD, 6IBM Microelectronics, 7Broadcom, 8University of California, 9Berkeley, 10SIMIT, 11Tsinghua University, 12Peking University
9A.4 Low-Voltage Low-Overhead Asynchronous Logic
Akshay Sridharan, Carl Sechen, Roozbeh Jafari
University of Texas at Dallas

Hardware Support for Power Management

Session Co-Chairs: Naehyuck Chang (Seoul National University), Eric Liang (Peking University)
9B.1 (Invited) SimICT: A Fast and Flexible Framework for Performance and Power Evaluation of Large-Scale Architecture
Dongrui Fan, Xiaochun Ye, Ninghui Sun
Institute of Computing, Chinese Academy of Science
9B.2 Energy-Efficient Computing Using Adaptive Table Lookup Based on Nonvolatile Memories
Jason Cong, Milos Ercegovac, Muhuan Huang, Sen Li, Bingjun Xiao
UCLA
9B.3 Active SSD Design for Energy-efficiency Improvement of Web-scale Data Analysis
Jian Ouyang1, Shiding Lin1, Zhenyu Hou1, Peng Wang2, Yong Wang1, Guangyu Sun2
1Baidu Corp., 2Peking University
Lunch
1215-1400

Lunch

TBD