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Sudeep Pasricha gets BEST PAPER AWARD at ASPDAC 2006 conference, Yokohama, Japan
January, 2006

Sudeep Pasricha's paper at the ASPDAC 2006 conference has been awarded with the Best Paper Award. In addition, ACES has 2 more papers at the ASPDAC conference. The details are:

S. Pasricha, N. Dutt, M. Ben-Romdhane “Constraint-Driven Bus Matrix Synthesis for MPSoC,” Proceedings of ASPDAC-2006, January 2006 (BEST PAPER AWARD)

H. Oh, N. Dutt and S. Ha, “Memory Optimal Single Appearance Schedule with Dynamic Loop Count for Synchronous Dataflow Graphs,” Proceedings of ASPDAC-2006, January 2006

S. Banerjee, E. Bozorgzadeh, and N. Dutt, “PARLGRAN: Parallelism Granularity Selection for Scheduling Task Chains on Dynamically Reconfigurable Architectures,” Proceedings of ASPDAC-2006, January 2006

Partha Biswas gets BEST PAPER NOMINATION at VLSI Design 2006 conference, Hyderabad, India
January, 2006

Partha Biswas's paper has been nominated for the Best Paper Award at the VLSI Design conference, 2006. We wish him the best of luck! The paper details are:

Partha Biswas, Sudarshan Banerjee, Nikil Dutt, Laura Pozzi, and Paolo Ienne, “Performance and Energy Benefits of Instruction-Set Extensions in an FPGA Soft Core,” Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on VLSI Design, Hyderabad, India, January, 2006

ACES at ICCAD 2005 conference, San Jose, CA
November, 2005

ACES had 1 paper at ICCAD. The details of the paper are:

J. Seo, N. Dutt, "Optimal Integration of Inter-Task and Intra-Task Dynamic Voltage Scaling Techniques," Proc. of Int'l Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), San Jose, CA November 2005

Prof Dutt delivers Distinguished Lecture
October, 2005

Prof. Nikil Dutt delivered a Distinguished Lecture at the CSE Department at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.

ACES at CODES+ISSS 2005 conference, San Jose, CA
September, 2005

ACES had 2 papers at the CODES+ISSS conference, and 1 paper at the ESTIMEDIA workshop. The details of the papers are as follows:

A. Shrivastava, E. Earlie, N. Dutt, A. Nicolau, “Aggregating Processor Free Time for Energy Reduction,” Proceedings of the International Symposium on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS, 2005), September 2005

H. Oh, S. Ha and N. Dutt, “Shift Buffering Technique for Automatic Code Synthesis from Synchronous Dataflow Graphs,” Proceedings of the International Symposium on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS /2005), September 2005.

A. Kejariwal, S. Gupta, A. Nicolau, N. Dutt, and R. Gupta, “Energy Analysis of Multimedia Watermarking on Mobile Handheld Devices,” Proceedings of the IEEE 2005 3rd Workshop on Embedded Systems for Real Time Multimedia (ESTIMEDIA 2005), /New York, September 2005

ACES at CASES 2005 conference, San Francisco, CA
September, 2005

ACES had 2 papers at the CASES conference. The details are:

A. Shrivastava, I. Issenin and N.D. Dutt, “Compilation Techniques for Energy Reduction In Horizontally Partitioned Cache Architectures,” Proc. Of the 2005 International Conference on Compilers, Architectures and Synthesis for Embedded Systems (CASES-2005), San Francisco, CA, September 2005

H. Oh, N. Dutt and S. Ha, “Single Appearance Schedule with Dynamic Loop Count for Minimum Data Buffer from Synchronous Dataflow Graphs,” Proc. Of the 2005 International Conference on Compilers, Architectures and Synthesis for Embedded Systems (CASES-2005/), San Francisco, CA, September 2005.

ACES at ISLPED 2005 conference, San Diego, CA
August, 2005

A. Gordon-Ross, F. Vahid and N.D. Dutt, “Fast Configurable-Cache Tuning with a Unified Second-Level Cache,” Proceedings of the International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED-2005), San Diego, CA, August 2005

Dr. Mishra and Prof. Dutt release a new book!
July, 2005

ACES alumni Dr. Prabhat Mishra and Prof. Nikil Dutt have released a new book! Details are as follows:

P. Mishra and N.D. Dutt, Functional Verification of Programmable Embedded Architectures: A Top-Down Approach, Springer, July 2005, ISBN: 0387261435.

ACES at IEEE ASAP 2005 conference, Samos, Greece
July, 2005

ACES has an invited paper at the IEEE ASAP 2005 conference held in Samos, Greece. The paper details are:

S. Pasricha, N. Dutt, M. Ben-Romdhane, "Using TLM for Exploring Bus-based SoC Communication Architectures", IEEE ASAP 2005, Samos, Greece, July 2005 (invited paper)

ACES has a BEST PAPER NOMINATION at the DAC 2005 conference in Anaheim, CA
June 13 - 17, 2005

ACES has two accepted papers at the DAC 2005 conference - the premier Design Automation Conference of the year, in Anaheim, California. One of the papers authored by Sudeep Pasricha has been nominated for the Best Paper Award! The accepted papers are:

S. Pasricha, N. Dutt, E. Bozorgzadeh, M. Ben-Romdhane, "Floorplan-aware Automated Synthesis of Bus-based Communication Architectures", Design and Automation Conference (DAC 2005), Anaheim, CA, June 2005 (BEST PAPER AWARD CANDIDATE)

S. Banerjee, E. Bozorgzadeh, N. Dutt, "Physically-aware HW-SW Partitioning for reconfigurable architectures with partial dynamic reconfiguration", Design and Automation Conference (DAC 2005), Anaheim, CA, June 2005

Sudeep Pasricha awarded YSSP Student Mentor award at DAC 2005
June 13 - 17, 2005

ACES member and PhD candidate Sudeep Pasricha has been awarded the DAC YSSP (Young Student Support Program) Student Mentor Award at DAC 2005. A student mentor is responsible for guiding and mentoring young students selected by the YSSP program, during the course of the conference.

ACES at DATE conference in Munich, Germany
March 7 - 11, 2005

ACES was again well represented at the DATE conference, held in Munich, Germany. The four papers accepted were:

A. Shrivastava, A. Nicolau, N. Dutt, E. Earlie, "PBExplore: A Framework for Compiler-in-the-Loop Exploration of Partial Bypassing in Embedded Processors", DATE 2005, Munich, Germany, March, 2005

I. Issenin, N. Dutt, "FORAY-GEN: Automatic Generation of Affine Functions for Memory Optimizations", DATE 2005, Munich, Germany, March, 2005

P. Biswas, S. Banerjee, N. Dutt, L. Pozzi, and P. Ienne, "ISEGEN: Generation of High-Quality Instruction Set Extensions by Iterative Improvement", DATE 2005, Munich, Germany, March, 2005

P. Mishra, N. Dutt, "Functional Coverage Driven Test Generation for Validation of Pipelined Processors", DATE 2005, Munich, Germany, March, 2005

ACES at ASP-DAC conference in Shanghai, China
January 18 - 21, 2005

ACES was represented at the ASP-DAC conference, held in exotic Shanghai, China. The accepted papers were:

S. Pasricha, N. Dutt, and M. Ben-Romdhane, "Automated Throughput-driven Synthesis of Bus-based Communication Architectures", ASPDAC 2005, Shanghai, China, pp495-498, January 18-21, 2005

J. Seo, N.  Dutt, "A Generalized Technique for Energy-efficient Operating Voltage Set-up in Dynamic Voltage Scaled Processors", ASPDAC 2005, Shanghai, China, January 18-21, 2005

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Sudeep Pasricha awarded CPCC fellowship for 2005
January 2005 

Prof. Nikil Dutt appointed Editor-in-Chief of ACM-TODAES
January 2005

Dr. Prabhat Mishra receives 2004 EDAA outstanding dissertation award
January 2005

ACES alumni Dr. Prabhat Mishra has won the EDAA outstanding dissertation award for the topic "New directions in embedded system design automation". His award winning thesis is titled Specification-driven Validation of Programmable Embedded Systems". Congratulations!

ACES dominates CODES+ISSS Conference in Stockholm, Sweden
September 8 - 10, 2004

ACES had a strong presence at the International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS, 2004) held in Stockholm, Sweden this year. Out of the 39 papers accepted, 4 were from the ACES research lab. The accepted papers were:

S. Banerjee and N. Dutt, "Efficient Search Space Exploration for HW-SW Partitioning," CODES+ISSS 2004, Stockholm, Sweden, pp 122-127, September 8-10, 2004

M. Mamidipaka, K. Khouri, N. Dutt, and M. Abadir, "Analytical Models for Leakage Power Estimation of Memory Array Structures," CODES+ISSS 2004," Stockholm, Sweden, pp 146-151, September 8-10, 2004

S. Pasricha, N. Dutt and M. Ben-Romdhane, "Fast Exploration of Bus-based On-chip Communication Architectures," CODES+ISSS 2004, Stockholm, Sweden, pp 242-247, September 8-10, 2004

A. Shrivastava, E. Earlie, N. Dutt, and A. Nicolau, "Operation Tables for Scheduling in the Presence of Incomplete Bypassing," CODES+ISSS 2004, Stockholm, Sweden, pp 194-199, September 8-10, 2004

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Events

ACES kicked off the 2005 Winter Quarter with a classy lunch at he University Club.

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ACES bids farewell to Mahesh Mamidipaka
November, 2004

It was time once again to say goodbye to another of our illustrious and beloved graduate students, Mahesh Mamidipaka with lunch (and a few drinks) at the Steelhead Brewery.

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ACES kicks off Fall Quarter 2004 with a pizza lunch
September, 2004

ACES kicked off the 2004 Fall Quarter with a scrumptious pizza lunch at Z Pizza.

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ACES bids farewell to Prabhat Mishra
July, 2004

It was time to say goodbye to our illustrious and beloved graduate student Prabhat Mishra with lunch (and a few drinks) at our favorite restaurant - the Steelhead Brewery.

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ACES bids farewell to Yohei Akita
May, 2004

We said goodbye to our visiting colleague, Yohei Akita with lunch (and a few drinks) at Steelhead Brewery.

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