2020 Best Paper/Presentation Recipients

Best Paper Research

Algorithm-Hardware Co-Design of Adaptive Floating-Point Encodings for Resilient Deep Learning Inference

Thierry Tambe    Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
En-Yu Yang    Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Zishen Wan    Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Yuntian Deng    Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Vijay Janapa Reddi    Professor at Carnegie Mellon University
Alexander Rush    Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
David Brooks    Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Gu-Yeon Wei    Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

NOMINATED BEST PAPER CANDIDATES

• COEXE: An Efficient Co-Execution Architecture for Real-Time Neural Network Services
• FLOPS: Efficient On-Chip Learning for Optical Neural Networks Through Stochastic Zeroth-Order Optimization
• ATUNs: Modular and Scalable Support for Atomic Operations in a Shared Memory Multiprocessor
• TP-GNN: A Graph Neural Network Framework for Tier Partitioning in Monolithic 3D ICs
• A Two-Way SRAM Array Based Accelerator for Deep Neural Network On-Chip Training
• Algorithm-Hardware Co-Design of Adaptive Floating-Point Encodings for Resilient Deep Learning Inference

 

BEST PAPER AWARD COMMITTEE

• Jason M. Fung
• Jeronimo Castrillon
• Jian-Jia Chen
• Noel Menezes
• Partha Pande
• Preeti R. Panda
• Rajiv Joshi
• Seda Ogrenci Memik
• Vijay Raghunathan
• Yu Cao

Best Paper Designer Track Front-End

Easy Deadlock Verification and Debug with Advanced Formal Verification

Laurent Arditi    Arm, Ltd., Valbonne, France
Vincent Abikhattar     Arm, Ltd., Sophia-Antipolis, France
Joe Hupcey III    Mentor, A Siemens Business, Fremont, CA
Jeremy Levitt    Mentor, A Siemens Business, Fremont, CA

Achieve Better Communication in Your UVM TB Using These Obscure UVM Classes

Pavan Yeluri     NVIDIA Corp., Hyderabad, India
Ranjith Nair    NVIDIA Corp., Hyderabad, India

 

Best Paper Designer Track – Back-End

A CPU Power Distribution Network Optimization Method Considering Routing Congestion with Genetic Algorithm

Huajun Wen    MediaTek, Inc., Austin, TX Hsinchen Chen     MediaTek, Inc., Austin, TX
Wei Chang     Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Thomas Drablos     MediaTek, Inc., Austin, TX

Weighted Partial Gating Selection Algorithm for Power Reduction in Scan Based Tests

Kavithaa Rajagopalan    Texas Instruments India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India
WIlson Pradeep    Texas Instruments India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India
Shreya Gupta     Malaviya National Institute of Technology & Texas Instruments India Pvt. Ltd., Jaipur, India

 

Best Paper – IP Track

PCI Gen4 Channel Optimization Using Machine Learning

Wook Kim      Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Hwaseong, Republic of Korea
Raewoon You      Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Hwaseong, Republic of Korea
Jun So Park      Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Hwaseong, Republic of Korea

 

Best Paper – Embedded Systems Track

The Path Towards Battery-Free and Forever-Battery Life for Internet of Things

Masoud Zargari      Atmosic Technologies, Campbell, CA