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Research Projects

Architecture

On-Going	Smart Memories	Project that explores the architecture, circuits and programming models for reconfigurable modular computing element. One of the goal is to have a simple processors cores support efficiently the following computational models: threads, speculation and streaming.
	The Stanford Multi-Camera Array	Project on building and using a system of multiple inexpensive cmos cameras that can be configured as desired
Completed	Flash	Multi-processor shared memory system with a custom programmable protocol processor, Magic
	XOM - Secure Processing	Architecture and system software project on secure software execution and distribution
	Torch	Experimental superscalar processor architecture
	Tiny Tera	Small packet switch with an aggregate bandwidth of approximately 1Tera bit per second

Circuits

On-Going	Electrical Links	Chip-to-chip communication, circuits for transmitting, receiving and synchronizing links
	Optical Links	Chip-to-chip communication, circuits for transmitting, receiving and synchronizing links
	Power/Ground Noise	Measurement, modeling, and reduction of on-chip power supply noise
	Circuit Optimization	Sizing digital circuits for optimal speed and power, looking into multiple power supplies and Vt devices possibilities.
	Energy-Performance Tunable Circuits	Pseudo-static gates with adjustable energy-performance design point after fabrication. Efficient FPGA architectures.
Completed	STAR - Schematic Tool for Analog Reuse	A framework for designing reusable analog circuits. By augmenting schematic capture tools with "active comments" that capture critical functions of the underlying circuits it is easier to port circuits to new technology.

Computer Aided Design

On-Going	see Circuit Optimization in Circuits
Completed	ChipMap	Visualizing Large VLSI Datasets
	see STAR in Circuits

Bio-engineering

On-Going	Image Processing for Cryogenic Electron Microscopy	Tracking and correspondence of features in highly noisy electron microscope image sets using probabilistic models.
	Caulobacter Cell Cycle Modeling and Circuit Analysis	Regulatory networks are critical to living organisms. They have to be robust under various environmental factors. A hybrid control system model with state machines is constructed to simulate the Caulobacter cell cycle regulation.