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Erdos Number = 4: Paul Erdos > Frank Harary > Rajeev Motwani > Krishna Palem > Lakshmi Chakrapani.


Software

  • Trimaran is a powerful opensource compilation and performance monitoring environment for EPIC processors.

Probabilistic Computing

  1. Sustaining moore's law in embedded computing through probabilistic and approximate design: retrospects and prospects [ pdf ]
    Krishna V. Palem, Lakshmi N.B. Chakrapani, Zvi M. Kedem, Avinash Lingamneni, Kirthi Krishna Muntimadugu
    International conference on Compilers, Architectures, and Synthesis for Embedded Systems, (CASES) 2009.

  2. 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.

  3. 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)

  4. 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

  5. Probabilistic System-on-a-chip Architectures
    Lakshmi N. B. Chakrapani, Pinar Korkmaz, Bilge E. S. Akgul, Krishna V. Palem
    ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (ACM-TODAES), August, 2007.

  6. Probabilistic CMOS Technology: A Survey and Future Directions
    Bilge E. S. Akgul, Lakshmi N. Chakrapani, Pinar Korkmaz and Krishna V. Palem
    In the Proceedings of the IFIP International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI-SoC), 2006.

  7. Advocating Noise as an Agent for Ultra Low-Energy Computing: Probabilistic CMOS Devices and their Characteristics
    Pinar Korkmaz, Bilge E. S. Akgul, Lakshmi N. B. Chakrapani, Krishna V. Palem [ pdf ]
    Japanese Journal of Applied Physics (JJAP), Vol 45, No. 4B, 2006.

  8. Ultra Efficient Embedded SOC Architectures based on Probabilistic CMOS Technology
    Lakshmi N. B. Chakrapani, Bilge E. S. Akgul, Suresh Cheemalavagu, Pinar Korkmaz, Krishna V. Palem, Balasubramanian Seshasayee [pdf]
    Proceedings of The 9th Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), March 2006.

  9. A Probabilistic CMOS Switch and its Realization by Exploiting Noise [ pdf ]
    Suresh Cheemalavagu, Pinar Korkmaz, Krishna V. Palem, Bilge E. S. Akgul and Lakshmi N. Chakrapani
    Proceedings of The IFIP-International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration, October 2005.

  10. Realizing Ultra-low Energy Application Specific SoC Architectures through Novel Probabilistic CMOS (PCMOS) Technology [ pdf ]
    Krishna V. Palem, Lakshmi N. B. Chakrapani, Bilge E. S. Akgul and Pinar Korkmaz
    Proceedings of The International Conference on Solid State Devices and Materials (SSDM) September 2005.

Compilers and Power Aware Computing

  1. Trimaran: An Infrastructure for Research in Instruction-Level Parallelism [ pdf ]
    Lakshmi N. B. Chakrapani, John Gyllenhaal, Wen-mei W. Hwu, Scott A. Mahlke, Krishna V. Palem and Rodric M. Rabbah
    Proceedings of Languages and Compilers for High Performance Computing: 17th International Workshop, LCPC 2004, September, 2004. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 3602, 2005.

  2. A Framework For Compiler Driven Design Space Exploration For Embedded System Customization [ pdf ]
    Krishna V. Palem, Lakshmi N. B. Chakrapani, Sudhakar Yalamanchili
    In Proceedings of the Ninth Asian Computing Science Conference, December 2004.


  3. Power-Performance Trade-Offs in second level memory used by an ARM-Like RISC Architecture
    K. Puttaswamy, Lakshmi N. B. Chakrapani, K. W. Choi, Y. S. Dhillon, U. Diril, P. Korkmaz, K. K. Lee, J. C. Park, A. Chatterjee, P. Ellervee, V. Mooney, K. Palem and W. F. Wong
    In Power Aware Computing, Ed. Rami Melhem, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA and Robert Graybill, DARPA/ITO, Arlington, VA, USA. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, pp. 211-224, May 2002.

  4. The Emerging Power Crisis In Embedded Processors - What Can A Compiler Do ? [ pdf ]
    Lakshmi N. B. Chakrapani, P. Korkmaz, V. J. Mooney III, K. Palem, K. Puttaswamy, W.F. Wong.
    In Proc. of Compilers Archite cuture and Synthesis of Embedded Systems, 2001.

Reconfigurable Computing and Others

  1. A Scalable Reconfigurable Architecture For Divisibility Testing Of Variable Long Precision Numbers [ pdf ]
    Easwaran Raman, Lakshmi N. B. Chakrapani, Karthik Sankaranarayanan and Ranjani Parthasarathi
    Poster Abstract In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on FPGAs for Custom Computing Machines, 2002.

  2. A Reconfigurable Co-Processor for Variable Long Precision Arithmetic [ pdf ]
    Ranjani Parthasarathi, Easwaran Raman, Karthik Sankaranarayanan and Lakshmi N Chakrapani.
    In Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on FPGAs for Custom Computing Machines, 2001.

  3. MAC Layer Mitigation of Interference Between IEEE 802.11a and Ultra Wideband (UWB) Systems
    Babak Firoozbakhsh, Nikil Jayant, Lakshmi Chakrapani
    In Proceedings of the International Conference on Communications in Computing, June 2006

Selected Talks

  • Highly Productive Compiler-Driven Customization of Heterogeneous Embedded Platforms
    Workshop on Compiler Assisted SoC Assembly (CASA), Embedded Systems Week, October 22-27, 2006

  • Probabilistic CMOS Technology for Embedded Cognitive Applications
    High Performance Embedded Computing Workshop, September 2006

  • Probabilistic Architectures
     Intel Corporation, July 18, 2006

  • Trimaran: An Infrastructure for Research in Instruction-Level Parallelism
    LCPC'04 Mini Workshop of Compiler Research Infrastructures, September 22, 2004