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COMPUTER ENGINEERING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON

COMPUTER ENGINEERING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON. Agenda. Program Overview Research Activities. Degrees Faculty Students. Program Overview of Computer Engineering. Degrees. BS - Computer Engineering New in January 2000 Five Areas of Specialization

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COMPUTER ENGINEERING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON

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  1. COMPUTER ENGINEERING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON

  2. Agenda • Program Overview • Research Activities

  3. Degrees • Faculty • Students Program Overview of Computer Engineering

  4. Degrees • BS - Computer Engineering • New in January 2000 • Five Areas of Specialization • VLSI Systems Design • Embedded Systems • Networks and Communications • Electronic Design Automaton • Electrical Engineering Applications Software • MS - Electrical Engineering • PhD - Electrical Engineering

  5. Faculty • Full Professors: Agrawal (also Comm.), Kime, Saluja, Smith • Associate Professors: Hu (also DSP), Marleau (also Control), Ramanathan • Assistant Professors (Chen, He, Lipasti)

  6. Faculty Areas Current Hiring Target AREAFTE FTE FTE • Architecture 2.0 0.0 2.0+ • EDA 3.0 1.0 4.0 • Networks 1.5 2.0 3.5 • Embedded Systems 0.5 2.0 2.5 • VLSI 1.5 1.0 2.5 • [Anticipated Losses] - 1.0 - 1.0 TOTALS 8.5 6.0 13.5

  7. Students • Currently about 40 % of EE undergraduate degree candidates in Computer Engineering option program • In future, expect 40 to 50 % of ECE undergraduates in Computer Engineering degree program • About 20 to 25% of graduate EE degree candidates in Computer Engineering areas

  8. Architecture • EDA • Networks Research Activities in Computer Engineering

  9. Architecture Group • James E. Smith • High performance processors • Mikko Lipasti • High performance processors and systems • James Goodman, Mark Hill, Guri Sohi, and David Wood • Computer Sciences

  10. Jim Smith • Next generation processors • Instruction level distributed processing • Accommodate increasing on-chip wire delays • New microarchitectures based on hierarchy/replication • Prediction/speculation to enhance instruction level parallelism • Co-designed virtual machines • Support architecture via a combination of hw and sw • Dynamic optimization at runtime Funding from NSF, IBM, Sun and Intel

  11. Jim Smith

  12. Mikko Lipasti Research Interests: • Computer architecture: both at the microarchitectural and system level • Interaction of architecture with modern operating systems, advanced compilation techniques, and commercial server workloads Funding from IBM and UW Graduate School

  13. Mikko Lipasti Research Goals: • Application of value prediction and value locality to system level issues, including: • Memory consistency models • Cache coherence protocols • Read/write data sharing in commercial applications • Application of value prediction to commercial workloads

  14. UW Computer Architecture Group • Comp. Sci. Research • Memory hierarchies: Goodman • Parallel systems: Hill, Wood • Processors: Sohi • Computer Architecture Affiliates • IBM, Intel, Sun, HP, SGI/Cray, Compaq/DEC, etc. • Well-attended annual meeting

  15. EDA Group • Charles (Chuck) Kime • VLSI Design and Test • Kewal Saluja • VLSI Design and Test • Chung-Ping Chen • VLSI System Design and EDA • Lei He • VLSI Design and Design Automation

  16. Kewal Saluja Research interest: Manufacturing Testing of ICs Research projects: • Test generation for sequential circuits using combinational test generators • Efficient fault diagnosis for signature-based test methods • Test algorithms for flash RAMs • Iddq-based testing and diagnosis • Fault-tolerance for systems using high performance architectures (joint project with Prof. Ramanathan) Funding from NSF and AT&T

  17. Charlie Chen Research goal: Develop breakthrough technologies to facilitate high-end VLSI system design Research projects: • Global design optimization • Early design planning, prediction, and budgeting • Methodology investigation for fast design convergence • High-speed low-power noise-immune circuit style investigation and design automation • Dual Vt, low voltage swing, and dynamic circuit design exploration Funding from UW Graduate School

  18. Charlie Chen Research Projects: • Signal integrity centric global interconnect synthesis • Full-chip-level repeater and interconnect planning • Giga-hertz clock synthesis • Power delivery planning and optimization • Full-chip-level signal integrity analysis and optimization • Cooper interconnect design investigation • Signal integrity centric system-level design consideration • Noise-aware high-speed packaging and I/O design & automation with special attention at memory interface

  19. Lei He Research interests: VLSI Design and Design Automation Research projects: • Computer-aided design for giga-hertz circuits in nanometer technologies • Interconnect planning • Process optimization for large volume designs • Interconnect architecture optimization • Interconnect-driven floorplanning • Interconnect synthesis • RLC routing, shield and buffer insertion, sizing and spacing Funding from UW Graduate School

  20. Lei He • RLC extraction and model reduction • efficient full-chip level solution • randomized and structural process variations • Design for manufacturability • processing variations and migrations • effects of sub-wavelength lithography • Web-based VLSI design and design automation

  21. Network Group • Parmesh Ramanathan • Wireline and Wireless Networks • Rajeev Agrawal (on leave) • Communication Networks • Yu Hen Hu (on leave) • DSP, VLSI and Multimedia

  22. Parmesh Ramanathan Research philosophy: • Premise: the same-service-for-all paradigm of today’s Internet not adequate for emerging applications • Next Generation Internet (NGI) must support quality of service (QoS) differentiation • Goal: Develop techniques for QoS differentiation in NGI • techniques consistent with Internet’s philosophy as opposed to telephone network’s philosophy

  23. Parmesh Ramanathan Research projects: Wireline • Architecture for relative differentiation in NGI • develop router mechanisms and user adaptation strategies • mainly algorithm development and theoretical analysis • validation through large scale simulations • Prototyping QoS differentiation techniques • network testbed with several PCs and four Gigabit switches • compare the implementation and performance overheads of our solutions

  24. Parmesh Ramanathan Research Topics: Wireless • QoS support in high data rate (45 Mbps) wireless networks • collaborative project with other faculty members • investigate all key aspects of a wireless network in an integrated fashion (antennas, receiver structures, communication subsystems, networking issues) • Packet data services in third generation cellular networks • develop solutions for QoS support within framework of IMT-2000 • prototype solutions on a wireless network testbed

  25. Thanks Pete! • For the Schneider Fellowship in Computer Engineering • For the Schneider FacultyDevelopment Grant Program • From Chuck, Jim, Kewal, Parmesh , Dick, Rajeev, Yu Hen, Charlie, Lei, Mikko, and DON!

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