Designing Energy-Efficient Information Processing Systems
University of Southern California
The semiconductor industry is facing some extraordinary challenges, including process and
aging-induced variability of nano-devices as well as excessive power dissipation and heat generation
in VLSI circuits and systems. In order for the industry to continue to expand and prosper, it is critical
to address these challenges heads on. It is against this backdrop that I provide examples of some
techniques used to robustly improve the energy efficiency in a variety of hardware platforms, ranging
from high performance to mobile computing systems. More precisely, my talk will include a discussion
of the following research results: (i) Power/performance modeling of multi-core server systems, (ii)
Concurrent DVFS and core consolidation under power and thermal constraints, and (iii) Variability-
aware design and optimization of energy-delay optimal pipelines.
Biography:Massoud Pedram is the Stephen and Etta Varra Professor in the EE department at the University of
Southern California. He received his B.S. degree in EE from Caltech in 1986 and PhD in EECS from UC-
Berkeley in 1991. He is a recipient of the 1996 Presidential Faculty Fellows Award, a Fellow of the
IEEE, an ACM Distinguished Scientist, and the past Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Design
Automation of Electronic Systems and the IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and
Systems. Dr. Pedram’s research focuses on energy-efficient computing, energy storage systems, low
power electronics and design, and computer aided design of VLSI circuits and systems. Dr. Pedram and
his research group have published more than 500 papers, and received seven Conference and two IEEE
Transactions Best Paper awards for their work.
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