Conference Program    Technical Session

WEDNESDAY, July 26, 2006, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM | Room: 301
TOPIC AREA:  LOW POWER AND THERMAL
(of special interest to designers)


   SESSION 33
  Low-Power, Thermal-Aware Architectures
  Chair: Mircea Stan - University of Virginia, Charlottsville, VA
  Organizers: Diana Marculescu, Naehyuck Chang

  This session covers topics related to energy aware architectures for OFDM transmitter design and control, and low power hearing aid design, as well as thermal management and energy estimation at architecture level.

  33.1   Energy-Scalable OFDM Transmitter Design and Control
  Speaker(s): Bjorn Debaillie - IMEC, Leuven, Belgium
  Author(s): Bjorn Debaillie - IMEC, Leuven, Belgium
Bruno Bougard - IMEC, Leuven, Belgium
Gregory Lenoir - IMEC, Leuven, Belgium
Gerd Vandersteen - IMEC, Leuven, Belgium
Francky Catthoor - IMEC, Leuven, Belgium
  33.2  Systematic Temperature Sensor Allocation and Placement for Microprocessors
  Speaker(s): Rajarshi Mukherjee - Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL
  Author(s): Rajarshi Mukherjee - Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL
Seda Ogrenci Memik - Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL
  33.3  HybDTM: A Coordinated Hardware-Software Approach for Dynamic Thermal Management
  Speaker(s): Amit Kumar - Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ
  Author(s): Amit Kumar - Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ
Li Shang - Queen's Univ., Kingston, ON
Li-Shiuan Peh - Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ
Niraj K. Jha - Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ
  33.4s  A Systematic Method For Functional Unit Power Estimation in Microprocessors
  Speaker(s): Wei Wu - Univ. of California, Riverside, CA
  Author(s): Wei Wu - Univ. of California, Riverside, CA
Lingling Jin - Univ. of California, Riverside, CA
Jun Yang - Univ. of California, Riverside, CA
Pu Liu - Univ. of California, Riverside, CA
Sheldon X.-D. Tan - Univ. of California, Riverside, CA
  33.5s  Low-Power Architectural Tradeoffs in a VLSI Implementation of an Adaptive Hearing Aid Algorithm
  Speaker(s): Felix Buergin - ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
  Author(s): Felix Buergin - ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Flavio Carbognani - ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Martin Hediger - ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Hektor Meier - ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Robert Meyer-Piening - ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Rafael Santschi - ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Norbert Felber - ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Hubert Kaeslin - ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Wolfgang Fichtner - ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland