Search Results - "Wills, D.S."

The Data Vortex, an All Optical Path Multicomputer Interconnection Network by Hawkins, C., Small, B.A., Wills, D.S., Bergman, K.

“…All optical path interconnection networks employing dense wavelength division multiplexing can provide vast improvements in supercomputer performance. However,…”
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Impact of number of angles on the performance of the data vortex optical interconnection network by Hawkins, C., Wills, D.S.

“…Reducing communication latency in multiprocessor interconnection networks can increase system performance on a broad range of applications. The data vortex…”
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On-chip decoupling capacitor optimization using architectural level prediction by Pant, M.D., Pant, P., Wills, D.S.

“…Switching activity-generated power-supply grid-noise presents a major obstacle to the reduction of supply voltage in future generation semiconductor…”
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The heterogeneous integration of optical interconnections into integrated microsystems by Jokerst, N.M., Brooke, M.A., Sang-Yeon Cho, Wilkinson, S., Vrazel, M., Fike, S., Tabler, J., Yoong Joon Joo, Sang-Woo Seo, Wills, D.S., Brown, A.

“…Emerging techniques for integrating optoelectronic (OE) devices, analog interface circuitry, RF circuitry, and digital logic into ultra-mixed signal systems…”
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Portable video supercomputing by Gentile, A., Wills, D.S.

“…As inexpensive imaging chips and wireless telecommunications are incorporated into an increasing array, of portable products, the need for high efficiency,…”
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Architecture of the Atlas chip-multiprocessor: dynamically parallelizing irregular applications by Codrescu, L., Wills, D.S., Meindl, J.

“…Single-chip multiprocessors are an important research direction for future microprocessors. The stigma of this approach is that many important applications…”
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Scaling up the Atlas chip-multiprocessor by Sassone, P.G., Wills, D.S.

“…Atlas, a dynamically multithreading chip-multiprocessor (CMP), gains little complexity as processing elements are added. When the model is scaled up with…”
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Systolic opportunities for multidimensional data streams by Chai, S.M., Wills, D.S.

“…Portable image processing applications require an efficient, scalable platform with localized computing regions. This paper presents a new class of area I/O…”
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Modeling technology impact on cluster microprocessor performance by Codrescu, L., Nugent, S., Meindl, J., Wills, D.S.

“…The growing speed gap between transistors and wire interconnects is forcing the development of distributed, or clustered, architectures. These designs…”
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Microsystem optoelectronic integration for mixed multisignal systems by Jokerst, N.M., Brooke, M.A., Laskar, J., Wills, D.S., Brown, A.S., Vrazel, M., Jung, S., Joo, Y., Chang, J.J.

“…The integration and packaging of optoelectronic devices with electronic circuits and systems has growing application in many fields, ranging from long to micro…”
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HiPER: a compact narrow channel router with hop-by-hop error correction by May, P., Bunchua, S., Wills, D.S.

“…Multiprocessor architectures demand efficient interprocessor communication to maximize system utilization and performance. To meet future demands, these…”
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Heterogeneous architecture models for interconnect-motivated system design by Sek Meng Chai, Taha, T.M., Wills, D.S., Meindl, J.D.

“…On-chip interconnect demand is becoming the dominant factor in modern processor performance and must be estimated early in the design process. This paper…”
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Bidirectional single fiber low-cost optoelectronic interconnect for automotive applications by Lopez-Lagunas, A., Sek Meng Chai, Cross, J., Buchannan, B., Carastro, L.A., Wang, S., Wills, D.S., Jokerst, N.M., Brocke, M.A., Ingram, M.A.

“…Current trends in vehicular technology reflect an increase in the number of electronic modules, leading to more complicated and expensive wiring. The use of…”
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The offset cube: a three-dimensional multicomputer network topology using through-wafer optics by Lacy, W.S., Cruz-Rivera, J.L., Wills, D.S.

“…Three-dimensional packaging technologies are critical for enabling ultra-compact, massively parallel processors (MPPs) for embedded applications. Through-water…”
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Dynamic Strands: Collapsing Speculative Dependence Chains for Reducing Pipeline Communication by Sassone, Peter G., Wills, D. Scott

“…In the modern era of wire-dominated architectures, specific effort must be made to reduce needless communication within out-of-order pipelines while still…”
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Early analysis of cost/performance trade-offs in MCM systems by Garg, V., Stogner, D.J., Ulmer, C., Schimmel, D.E., Dislis, C., Yalamanchili, S., Wills, D.S.

“…This paper explores early analysis of the complex relationships between system architectures and the active and packaging materials from which they are…”
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Evaluating a 16-bit YCbCr (6:5:5) color representation for low memory, embedded video processing by Jongmyon Kim, Wills, D.S.

“…This work examines a 16-bit YCbCr (6:5:5) color representation for limited-memory, embedded video-processing applications. The 16-bit format, combined with…”
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Architecture of the Atlas chip-multiprocessor: dynamically parallelizing irregular applications by Codrescu, L., Wills, D.S.

“…An important research direction for future microprocessors is the single-chip multiprocessor. The drawbacks of this approach are that many important…”
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On dynamic speculative thread partitioning and the MEM-slicing algorithm by Codrescu, L., Wills, D.S.

“…A dynamic speculative multithreaded processor automatically extracts thread level parallelism from sequential binary applications without software support. The…”
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Effective detection and elimination of impulse noise for reliable 4:2:0 YCbCr signals prior to compression encoding by Jongmyon Kim, Wills, L.M., Wills, D.S.

“…This paper presents an efficient two-stage filtering method that provides highly reliable 4:2:0 YCbCr signals, which are widely used in the image- and…”
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