DAC 2018 | Best Paper/Presentation Recipients

BEST PAPERS - RESEARCH

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Compensated-DNN: Energy Efficient Low-Precision Deep Neural Networks by Compensating Quantization Errors

Speaker:
Swagath Venkataramani     IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY

Authors:
Shubham Jain     Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN
Swagath Venkataramani     IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY
Vijayalakshmi Srinivasan      IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY
Jungwook Choi      IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY
Pierce I. Chuang      IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY
Leland Chang      IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY


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Exact Algorithms for Delay-Bounded Steiner Arborescences

Speaker:
Benjamin M. Rockel     Univ. of Bonn, Germany

Authors:
Stephan Held     Univ. of Bonn, Germany
Benjamin M. Rockel     Univ. of Bonn, Germany

NOMINATED BEST PAPER CANDIDATES

Application Level Hardware Tracing for Scaling Post-Silicon Debug

  • Debjit Pal, Abhishek Sharma, Shobha Vasudevan    University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Sandip Ray      University of Florida, Gainesville
  • Flavio M. de Paula      IBM Austin

Ares: A framework for quantifying the resilience of deep neural networks

  • Brandon Reagen, Udit Gupta, Lillian Pentecost, Paul Whatmough, Sae Kyu Lee, Niamh Mulholland, David Brooks, Gu-Yeon Wei    Harvard University

Cache Side-Channel Attacks and Time-Predictability in High-Performance Critical Real-Time Systems

  • David Trilla      Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya and BSC
  • Carles Hernandez, Jaume Abella     Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)
  • Francisco J. Cazorla      BSC and IIIA-CSIC

Parallelizing SRAM Arrays with Customized Bit-Cell for Binary Neural Networks

  • Rui Liu, Xiaochen Peng, Xiaoyu Sun, Shimeng Yu     Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
  • Win-San Khwa, Xin Si, Jia-Jing Chen, Jia-Fang Li, Meng-Fan Chang      National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

BEST PAPER AWARD COMMITTEE

  • Harry Foster, Mentor, A Siemens Business (Chair)
  • Arijit Raychowdhury, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Benjamin CARRION SCHAEFER, University of Texas at Dallas
  • Laleh Behjat, University of Calgary
  • Luis Angel D. Bathen, IBM Research - Almaden
  • Qi Zhu, Northwestern University
  • Shreyas Sen, Purdue University
  • Tulika Mitra, National University of Singapore
  • Zheng Zhang, University of California, Santa Barbara

DESIGNER TRACK BEST PRESENTATION - BACK-END DESIGN

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Practical Cell Based Analog Design Methodology (AnaCell)

Speaker:
Yukichi Todoroki     Jedat, Inc., Tokyo, Japan

Authors:
Akira Suzuki     Jedat, Inc., Tokyo, Japan
Yukichi Todoroki     Jedat, Inc., Tokyo, Japan
Atsushi Wada      Jedat, Inc., Tokyo, Japan
Tomoyuki Kato      Jedat, Inc., Tokyo, Japan
Masanori Kusano     Jedat, Inc., Tokyo, Japan
Nobuto Ono      Jedat, Inc., Tokyo, Japan
Kazuhiro Miura     Jedat, Inc., Tokyo, Japan


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Clock-level Scheduling Technique for Lowering Dynamic Voltage Drop Hot-spot

Speaker:

Jaewon Lee     Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Hwasung-si, Republic of Korea

Authors:
Jaewon Lee     Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Hwasung-si, Republic of Korea
Sangdo Park      Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Hwaseong-si, Republic of Korea
Hyung-Ock Kim      Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Hwaseong-si, Republic of Korea
Kyungtae Do      Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Hwaseong-si, Republic of Korea
Jung Yun Choi      Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Yong-in, Republic of Korea

DESIGNER TRACK BEST PRESENTATION - EMBEDDED SYSTEMS & SOFTWARE

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INSPEX: Integrated Portable Multi-sensor Obstacle Detection Device. Application to Navigation for Visually Impaired People

Speaker:
Olivier Debicki     CEA, Grenoble, France

Authors:
Olivier Debicki     CEA, Grenoble, France
Nicolas Mareau      CEA, Grenoble, France
Laurent Ouvry      CEA, Grenoble, France
Julie Foucault      CEA, Grenoble, France
Suzanne Lesecq      CEA-LETI Minatec, Grenoble, France
Gabriela Dudnik      Centre Suisse d'Electronique et Microtechnique SA, Neuchatel, Switzerland
Marc Correvon      Centre Suisse d'Electronique et Microtechnique SA, Neuchatel, Switzerland

DESIGNER TRACK BEST PRESENTATION - FRONT-END DESIGN

Designer Track Best Presentation Front End Design Winner

Convergence Techniques for C vs. RTL Equivalence Checking

Speaker:
Xiushan Feng     Samsung Austin R&D Center, Austin, TX

Authors:
Xiushan Feng     Samsung Austin R&D Center, Austin, TX
Li You      Samsung Austin R&D Center, Austin, TX
Rachna Nambiar Jain     Samsung Austin R&D Center, Austin, TX
Yong Liu     Synopsys, Inc., Mountain View, CA


IP TRACK BEST PRESENTATION

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Machine Learning in Arm CPU Verification

Speaker:
Nagesh Loke     Arm Ltd., Austin, TX

Authors:
Stan Sokorac     Arm Ltd., Austin, TX

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