[CPCC] SEMINAR: Power Mgmnt/Fault Tolerance Wireless/Multimedia 10/26 10 AM

[Ender Ayanoglu]

                                    SEMINAR


      Aggressive Power Management Utilizing Embedded Memory Fault Tolerant
                 Adaptation for Wireless/Multimedia Systems

                                      by

                             Amin Khajeh Djahromi

                         October 26, 2009, Monday
                                  10 AM
                          2430 Engineering Hall
                            (Colloquium Room)


                                 ABSTRACT

The main theme of my current research is studying embedded memory
structures' (especially SRAMs) behavior/stability in deep-sub-micron
technologies under aggressive voltage scaling in the presence of
process variations (while considering the effect of temperature).
Also, I am researching methods of implementing fault tolerant
adaptation approaches that are based on the envisioned application
(e.g., wireless applications etc). The conventional adaptive
techniques for mobile applications assume 100% correctness of data;
consequently the design space is two-dimensional, trading off power
for performance. Since some systems such as wireless or multimedia are
inherently error tolerant, we can add an extra degree of freedom to
their design space by extending it in hardware error dimension. This
will result in potentially significant savings in power and
correspondingly an increase in battery lifetime.

                             SPEAKER'S BIOGRAPHY

Amin Khajeh Djahromi was born in Birmingham U.K. in 1981. He received
his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Communication
from Shiraz University, Iran in 2002 and Master of Science in
Electrical Engineering from University of Texas at Arlington in
2005. Currently he is a PhD candidate at University of California
Irvine.  He was an intern in research and development division of
Siemens Company in summer of 2002 and He later joined Siemens as a
research staff member from 2002 to 2003.  Mr. Khajeh.s research
interests include design of low power high performance circuits for
communication and multimedia applications. He was the recipient
UTA/TxTEC Scholarship from UT Arlington in 2004 and recipient of CPCC
fellowship in years 2006 and 2007 from Center for Pervasive
Communications and Computing, CA.