Workshop on Quality-Aware Design (W-QUAD)

(held in conjunction with ISCA-35)

Saturday, June 21, 2008

1:15 PM:  Keynote Address:

- Prof. Josep Torrellas, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

o Variation-Tolerant Architectures

2:00 PM: Session I:  Transient Errors: Modeling and Design Issues

- V. Sridharan, D. Liberty and D. Kaeli (Northeastern University, AMD)

o A Taxonomy to Enable Error Recovery and Correction in Software

- S. Watanabe, M. Hashimoto, T. Sato (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Osaka University, Fukuoka University)

o Cascading Dependent Operations for Mitigating Timing Variability

3:00 PM – 3:15 PM:  Break

3:15 PM: Session II: Thermal and Lifetime Reliability Management

- C. Zhu, Z. Gu, L. Shang, R. Dick, R. Joseph (Queen’s University, Synplicity, University of Colorado, Northwestern University) – invited talk

o Run-time Thermal Management of Three-Dimensional Chip Multiprocessors

- S. Feng, S. Gupta and S. Mahlke (University of Michigan)

o Olay: Combat the Signs of Aging with Introspective Reliability Management

4:15 PM – 5:30 PM: Panel Session:

Which of the QUAD pillars need(s) most attention in the late CMOS design era?

(The four pillars that define quality, as stipulated in the W-QUAD charter were: reliability, test/verification ease, power/thermal efficiency and performance)

Panelists: Timothy Pinkston, USC

                Fadi Kurdahi, UCI

                David Kaeli, Northeastern

Moderator: Pradip Bose, IBM Research