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Week |
Topic |
Reading
assignment |
Sources of Seminal Technical
Innovations |
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01/11 |
Physics, Devices, and Circuits of Power Modeling and Optimization
(Intro: PDF,
PPTX)
(IC:
PDF, PPTX) |
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Landauer's Principle (1,
2); Uncertainty principle (3)
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Device scaling and power
consumption (4,5,6)
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Circuit power
optimization (7)
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Leakage power (8)
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IEEE Journal of Solid-State
Devices ISSCC, ISLPED, IEEE
Trans. VLSI |
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01/20 |
Architecture and Processors |
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Modeling (1,2,3)
(Please compare 2 and 3)
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Design: DVS (4),
Freescale (5),
IBM (6)
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Power Management vs. DVS
(7)
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Leakage Power (8)
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ISCA, MICRO, HPCA |
| 01/27 |
Display and Other User Interfaces
(Display:
PDF,
PPTX)
(Human
factors: PDF,
PPTX) |
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| 02/03 |
More human factors |
- The Psychology of thinking: embedding artifice in nature (Chapter 3
of
this book)
- Bounded rationality (PDF)
- Model Human Processor (PDF)
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HW Assignment 1: Find and describe an energy efficiency bug in portable
systems you own. (Due Feb 12th) |
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02/10 |
Wireless systems (PDF,
PPTX) |
- Circuit (1,
Optional)
- Physical Layer(2)
- MAC (3)
- TCP (4,5)
- System (6,
compare with
7)
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MobiCom, MobiSys, INFOCOM, ISLPED, ISSCC |
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02/17 |
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Power supply & distribution (PDF,
PPTX) |
- Power signal processing (PDF)(only
Section 2)
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HW Assignment 2: Netbook teardown |
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02/24 |
OS basics |
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Read about
ACPI |
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03/03 |
No Class (Spring Break) |
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03/10 |
Ryan
Mehrdad |
Low-power FPGA (Mehrdad)
Cellular network power management (Ryan) |
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03/17 |
Jash & Myuran (PPT) |
User interface regarding energy efficiency for mobile devices (PDF)
(Jash & Myuran) |
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03/24 | Ahmed & Andrew (PPTX)
Chris & Paul
(PDF)
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Integrated concurrency control & energy
management in device drivers (PDF)
(Ahmed & Andrew)
Energy-efficient MAC (Chris & Paul)
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03/31 |
Aida & Britt (PPT)
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04/07 |
Sam (PPTX)
Peter & Tate (PDF) |
Energy-efficient soft real-time CPU scheduling
for mobile multimedia systems (ACM)
(Sam)
Linux power management (Peter & Tate) (Linux
CPU governors) |
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04/14 |
Meetings |
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04/21 |
Meetings |
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Last class |
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05/01 |
Project report due |
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05/05 |
Final project presentation |
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