Contact Information:
2435 EECS
Ann Arbor, MI
[email protected]
Research Interest
Adaptive computing; circuit techniques for reliability, high performance and low power; non-volatile memories
Projects:
• Very high MTBF synchronizer design (current)
• Non-volatile memory design for exascale machines (current)
• Adaptive robustness tuning for high performance domino logic
– Proposed a domino design style to dynamically trade surplus noise margins at nominal conditions for performance by detecting stability errors while guaranteeing forward progress
– The prototype was fabricated in 65nm CMOS and tested to show performance boost of up to 71% over static CMOS
• A multi-stage temperature compensated timer for ultra-low power wireless sensor node synchronization
– Worked on a low jitter and ultra-low power timer based on gate-leakage for measuring long-term synchronization period for wireless sensor nodes
– The prototype was fabricated and tested in a 130nm CMOS process and consumed ~660pW of power
• Centipede: A near-threshold 7-layer 3D system with 128 ARM Cortex-M3 cores and 256MB of DRAM
– Worked on the design and 3D integration aware layout of custom 8T-SRAM based caches
– Designed and implemented a glitch free clock generation scheme for 2-core and 4-core mode operation
– Designed and implemented a clock tree alignment sensor for post-silicon clock alignment between DRAM bus and caches and cores spanning multiple voltage domains
– The prototype was fabricated and tested in a 130nm CMOS process