Publicado em: 02/09/2010

INF realiza palestra com Fadi J. Kurdahi

Ocorre nesta sexta feira (03/09) a palestra Error-Aware Cross-Layer Design, ministrada por Fadi J. Kurdahi, com início às 10h30min, no Auditório José Mauro Volkmer de Castilho.

Abstract
For over 40 years, Moore’s law has been the main driving force fueling the explosive growth of electronics, most notably in the mobile and multimedia domains. All predictions today are that Moore’s law is no longer viable, mainly due to the increasing power consumption of silicon chips as well as variability in the silicon fabrication processes. While point solutions  have shown some incremental improvement in power consumption, a cross-layer approach to power management and optimization while trading off error resiliency vs power is the only way to achieve appreciable savings. Case studies that highlight these cross-layer approaches will be presented.

Bio: Fadi Kurdahi received his PhD from the University of Southern California in 1987. Since then, he has been a faculty at the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at UCI, where he conducts research in the areas of Computer Aided Design of VLSI circuits, high-level synthesis, and design methodology of large scale systems, and serves as the Associate Director for the Center for Embedded Computer Systems (CECS). He was Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II 1993-1995, Area Editor in IEEE Design and Test for reconfigurable computing, and served as program chair, general chair or on program committees of several workshops, symposia and conferences in the area of CAD, VLSI, and system design. He received the best paper award for the IEEE  Transactions on VLSI in 2002, the best paper award in 2006 at ISQED, and four other distinguished paper awards at DAC, EuroDAC, ASP- DAC and ISQED. He also  received the Distinguished Alumnus award from this Alma Mater, the   American University of Beirut in 2008. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the AAAS.