News

  • Apr. 2020 – Congrats to Cesar for the acceptance of Cache Capacity Curves in the ISPASS Poster Session!
  • Feb. 2020 – Congrats to Parnian, Maziar, and Yuelin Liu for the acceptance of their reconfigurable shared accelerator work to FPGA 2020 Poster Session!
  • Feb. 2020 – Congrats to Karthik and Mike for publishing SnackNoC, a method for computing using unused resources in the network on chip at HPCA 2020.
  • Nov. 2019 – Congrats to Alex, Tomer, Karthik, and Mike for publishing their work on Evaluating NVMs for the LLC in IISWC!
  • July. 2019 – Congrats to Dr. Guru Prasad Srinivasa (co-advised student at U. Buffalo) for defending his PhD on Power and Thermal characterization and management of Android Smartphones.
  • Oct. 2018 – Congrats to Dave for the publication of Machine Learning on the Thermal Side-Channel in ICCD!
  • Jan. 2018 – Congrats to Mike and Karthik for the publication of our new improved modular workload characterization tool PRISM!
  • Jan. 2018 – Congrats to Karthik and Mike for their TACO publication on SynchroTrace! Thanks to our ARM collaborators for adding additional tracing capabilities.
  • Nov 2017 – Congrats to Cesar for presenting Cache Watermarking at the NOPE workshop! The workshop was held in Conjunction with MICRO.
  • Jun. 2017 – Congrats to Dr. Rizwana Begum for successfully defending her PhD. Best of luck at Intel!
  • Mar. 2017 – Congrats to Guru, Rizwana and Scott for the publication at HotMobile 2017, pointing out the thermal differences in smartphones!
  • Oct. 2016 – Congrats to Rizwana for another publication in ICCD!
  • Sept. 2016 – Prof. Hempstead is teaching a new course “Introduction to the Internet of Things (IoT)” with Prof. Hassoun
  • Jan. 2016 – TCAL and the Drexel VLSI lab have three papers at the Boston Area Computer Architecture workshop. Please take a look.
  • Oct. 2015 – We are offering tutorials at IISWC and ICCD on Sigil and SynchroTrace. Please take a look at the tutorial page at the VLSI lab for our materials!
  • Oct. 2015 – Congrats to Cesar for his work on Caches and Prefetching presented at ICCD!
  • Oct. 2015 – Congrats to Rizwana and the Power-Agile team for two papers, one at IISWC and one at ICCD!
  • Jun. 2015 – Congrats to Steven Battle and Siddharth Nilakantan who successfully defended their PhD’s and graduated! We wish them luck at IBM and Nvidia!
  • Mar. 2015 – Congrats to the SynchroTrace team for their successful publication of SynchroTrace at ISPASS 2015. The software has been released see the SynchroTrace page for details.
  • Feb. 2014 – We are holding a Tutorial at HPCA on Sigil and Many-Accelerator Architectures with David-Brook’s group at Harvard Research Infrastructures for Accelerator-Centric Architectures.
  • Feb. 2014 – Congrats to Prof. Hempstead for the funding of the NSF CAREER grant titled: “Combating Dark Silicon through Specialization: Communication-Aware Tiled Many-Accelerator Architectures”. This funding will be used over the next five years to support two students as they develop architectures for the next generation of microprocessors containing many specialized accelerators.
  • Oct. 2013 – Congrats to Mark Hempstead on his ICCD 2013 Keynote: http://www.iccd-conf.com/Home.html http://www.iccd-conf.com/mark_hempstead.html
  • Oct. 2013 – Congrats to Steven Battle for his two ICCD 2013 papers, “Register Allocation and VDD-gating algorithms for Out-of-Order Architectures” and “Characterizing the Costs and Benefits of Hardware Parallellism in Accelerator Cores.”
  • Sept. 2013 – Congrats to Siddharth Nilakantan for his IISWC 2013 paper, “Platform-independent Analysis of Function-level Communication in Workloads.”
  • Aug. 2013 – Congrats to Steven Battle and Siddharth Nilakantan for passing their PhD Proposals.
  • May 2013 – Congrats to Rizwana Begum for passing her PhD Candidacy.
  • Apr. 2013 – Congrats to Rizwana Begum for winning the Suryadevara Basavaiah Family Educational Fund Award.