My research interests include most aspects of embedded computing, from architecture to compilation and high level design automation. Recently, we have been looking at novel techniques for computing in the presence of noise and faults. We have several interesting results, spanning theoretical foundations, devices, architectures and applications. For an overview of our work, please see my selected publications below. For a comprehensive list, please see my publications page here and the VISEN center publications page here.

• A Probabilistic Boolean Logic and its Meaning [ pdf ]
  Lakshmi N. B. Chakrapani and Krishna V. Palem
  Rice University, Department of Computer Science Technical Report, No. TR08-05, June 2008.
  
  
• Highly Energy and Performance Efficient Embedded DSP through "Somewhat" Erroneous Arithmetic
  Lakshmi N. B. Chakrapani, Kirthi Krishna, Lingamneni Avinash, Jason George and Krishna Palem
  International conference on Compilers, Architectures, and Synthesis for Embedded Systems, 2008 (accepted for publication)
  
  

• Probabilistic Design: A Survey of Probabilistic CMOS Technology and Future Directions for Terascale IC Design
  Lakshmi N. B. Chakrapani, Jason George, Bo Marr, Bilge E. S. Akgul, and Krishna V. Palem
  VLSI-SoC: Research Trends in VLSI and Systems on Chip, De Micheli, Giovanni; Mir, Salvador; Reis, Ricardo (Eds.), ISBN: 978-0-387-74908-2, December 2007
  
  
• Probabilistic System-on-a-Chip Architectures
  Lakshmi N. B. Chakrapani, Pinar Korkmaz, Bilge E. S. Akgul and Krishna V. Palem
  ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, Volume 12 , Issue 3 (August 2007)
  
  
• Advocating Noise as an Agent for Ultra Low-Energy Computing: Probabilistic CMOS Devices and Their Characteristics
  Pinar Korkmaz, Bilge E. S. Akgul, Krishna V. Palem and Lakshmi N. B. Chakrapani
  Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, SSDM Special Issue Part 1, April 2006.
  
  
• For a complete list of publications, please click here