Inaugural Lecture Prof. Akash Kumar: “Design Methodologies for Reliable and Energy-Efficient Multiprocessor System”

Date

Jan 12, 2016

Time

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Speaker

Prof. Akash Kumar

Language

en

Main Topic

Willkommen

Other Topics

Willkommen

Host

conny.okuma@tu-dresden.de

Description

As the performance demands of applications (e.g., multimedia) are growing, multiple processing cores are integrated together to form multiprocessor systems. Energy minimization is a primary optimization objective for these systems. An emerging concern for designs at deep-submicron technology nodes (65nm and below) is the lifetime reliability, as escalating power density and hence temperature variation continues to accelerate wear-out leading to a growing prominence of device defects. As such, reliability and energy need to be incorporated in the multiprocessor
design methodology. In this talk, I will present a platform-based design methodology in order to minimize temperature-related wear-outs addressing two key aspects:

• lifetime amelioration, i.e. improving the lifetime reliability through energy- and performanceaware
  intelligent task mapping; and
• graceful degradation, i.e. determining the task mapping for different fault-scenarios while
  minimizing the energy consumption and providing graceful performance degradation

The inaugural lecture will be followed by a small reception.

Akash Kumar received the joint Ph.D. degree in embedded systems from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Eindhoven University of Technology (TUe), Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in 2009. He is currently the Chair for Processor Design at the Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany.

His research interests include design, analysis and resource management of low-power and fault tolerant embedded multiprocessor systems. He has published over 100 papers in leading international electronic design automation journals and conferences on these topics. He has received best paper award nominations including SC 2015, DATE 2015 and FPL 2014. He is also a member of technical program committees of major conferences in the design automation and FPGA design area like, DAC, DATE, CASES, ASPDAC, FPL, FPT, etc.

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