TECHNICAL SESSIONS PROGRAM AGENDA
Session1, Day 1 (January 5, 2015) 2.45 PM to 3.45 PM

Track A

ROYAL BALLROOM

Track B

JAMAVAR(GROUND FLOOR)

Track C

KAMAL

Track D

GRAND BALLROOM

Track E

DIYA

Session A1: Embedded Systems
Chair: AVSS Prasad, Audience

Session B1: Design Verification
Chair: Anand Venkatachalam, Sandisk
Session C1: Analog
Chair: Murtuza Lilamwala, Cypress
Session D1: IOT
Chair: Nagaraj V Dixit, TI
Session E1: User Design
Chair: Sandeep Bhatia, Broadcom

A1.1 ARGUS: A Framework for Rapid Design and Prototype of Heterogeneous Multicore Systems in FPGA

Jude Angelo Ambrose, Tuo Li, Daniel Murphy, Shivam Gargg, Nick Higgins and Sri Parameswaran, UNSW

B1.1 On-The-Fly Donut Formation in Compiled Memory

Darvinder singh, Isha Garg, Vineet Sachan and Prasanna Nalawar, AMD & Synopsys

C1.1 On Slew Rate Enhancement in Class-A Opamps Using Local Common-Mode Feedback

Rakshitdatta K. S and Nagendra Krishnapura
IIT-Chennai

D1.1 Invited Talk: Environmental Pollution Monitoring : Gas Sensors to System Integration

Navakanta Bhat, Indian Institute of Science

E1.1: Invited Talk - Wearable Device For Physical and Emotional Health Monitoring

Dr. Srinivasan Murali, CEO, SmartCardia

A1.2 Parameterizable FPGA framework for particle filter based object tracking in video
Pinal Kumar Engineer, Velmurugan Rajbabu and Sachin Patkar, IIT Bombay
B1.2 Scaling the uvm_reg model towards automation and simplicity of use
Abhishek Jain and Richa Gupta
C1.2 Accurate Constant Transconductance Generation Without Off-chip Components
Imon Mondal and Nagendra Krishnapura
D1.2 Towards a Real-Time Smart Water Monitoring System
Vignesh Kudva, Prashanth Nayak, Bharadwaj Amrutur, Mohan Kumar, Anjana G.R, Alok Rawat and Sheetal Kumar
A1.3 RELSPEC: A Framework for Early Reliability Refinement of Embedded Applications
Saurav Kumar Ghosh, Aritra Hazra and Soumyajit Dey, IIT Kharagpur
B1.3 On the Analysis of Reversible Booth’s Multiplier
Sajib Mitra, Ahsan Chowdhury and Jakia Sultana
C1.3 Ultra-fast cap-less LDO for dual lane USB in 28FDSOI
Saurabh Singh and Gautam Kanungo, ST
  E1.2: Invited Talk: IBM - BlueMix
Amit Mangalvedkar, IBM

 

Session 2, Day 1 (January 5, 2015) 4.00 PM to 5.30 PM

Track A

ROYAL BALLROOM

Track B

JAMAVAR(GROUND FLOOR)

Track C

KAMAL

Track D

GRAND BALLROOM

Track E

DIYA

Session A2: Embedded Systems
Chair: Gautam Doshi, Intel
Session B2: Design Implementation
Chair: Amit Jain, Mediatek
Session C2: Analog
Chair: Vasantha Erraguntla, Intel
Session D2: Special Session Session E2: User Design
Chair: Prasun Raha, Tabula
A2.1 Thermal Extension of the Total Bandwidth Server
Ayoosh Bansal, Rehan Ahmed, Bhuvana Kakunoori, Parameswaran Ramanathan and Kewal Saluja, University of Wisconsin-Madison
B2.1 Invited Talk: Better-than-Worst-Case Timing Design
Adit Singh, Auburn University, USA
C2.1 Invited Talk: RF/Analog design challenges in Advanced Technology Nodes
Madhukar Reddy, V.P. Central Engineering, Maxlinear Inc., USA
 D2.1 : Invited Talk: Circuit and Architectural Innovations using Steep Switching Tunnel FETs
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Penn State, USA
E2.1: High Performance Computing using Cell-phone chipset
Amit Bhatt and Shoeb Chikte, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of ICT
A2.2 Thermal-Aware Test Data Compression Using Dictionary Based Coding
Rajit Karmakar and Santanu Chattopadhyay, IIT-Kharagpur
B2.2 Two Phase Write Scheme to Improve Low Voltage Write-Ability in Medium-Density SRAMs
M Sultan M Siddiqui, Shailendra Sharad, Yogendra Sharma and Amit Khanuja, Synopsys
C2.2 Any Capacitor Stable LVR Using Sub-Unity Gain Positive Feedback Loop in 65nm CMOS
Saurabh singh and Nitin Bansal
E2.2: Architecture and Design Automation of High Performance Arithmetic Architectures on FPGAs
Ayan Palchaudhuri and Rajat Chakraborty, IIT-Kharagpur
A2.3 CERI: Cost-Effective Routing Implementation Technique For Network-on-Chip
Rimpy Bishnoi, Vijay Laxmi & Manoj Singh Gaur - NMIT, Jaipur, Radi Husin Bin Ramlee and Mark Zwolinski - University of Southampton
B2.3 A CMOS 90nm Supply Noise Tolerant High Density 8T –NAND ROM
Vinay Kumar, Ashish Kumar and Dhori Kedar Janardan, ST
C2.3 A Wide Dynamic-Range Low-Power Signal Conditioning Circuit for Low-Side Current Sensing Application
Rahul T., Bibhudatta Sahoo, Arya Sasidharakurup, Parvathy S. J. and Veeresh Babu Vulligaddala, Amrite University & ams Semiconductor
D2.2: Invited Talk : The Spin on Spintronics
Kaushik Roy and Anand Raghunathan, Purdue University, USA
E2.3: Architectures for Embedded Vision Application using FPGA-based Platform
Jai Gopal Pandey, Abhijit Karmakar, Chandra Shekhar and S. Gurunarayanan
A2.4 Way Halted Prediction Cache: An Energy Efficient Cache Architecture for Embedded Processors
Neethu Mallya, Geeta Patil and Biju Raveendran

B2.4 2SAT based Infeasibility Resolution during Design Rule Correction on Layouts with Multiple Grids

Sambuddha Bhattacharya , Nitin Salodkar, Subramanian Rajagopalan, and Shabbir Batterywala

C2.4 A wide tuning range LC quadrature phase oscillator employing mode switching
Sivaramakrishna Rudrapati, Sharayu Jagtap and Shalabh Gupta, IIT-Bombay
E2.4: A Pipelined Parallel Video Acquisition for Embedded Vision System on an XMOS Multicore Microcontroller
Sudha Natarajan, Yuvaraj Velumani, Padma Lakshmi S and Srinivas Phani Chandra E, XMOS

 

Session 3, Day 2 (January 6, 2015), 12.00 PM to 1.00 PM

Track A

ROYAL BALLROOM

Track B

JAMAVAR(GROUND FLOOR)

Track C

KAMAL

Track D

GRAND BALLROOM

Track E

DIYA

Session A3: Special Session

Chair: Aloknath De, Samsung

Session B3: Design Verification

Chair: Narayana Pidugu, Xilinx

Session C3: Devices & Circuits

Chair: Dr. Devesh Dwivedi , IBM

Session D3: Panel Discussion Session E3: User Design
Chair: Vivek Sabnis, AMD

A3.1 Invited Talk: IoT Protocol Wars & the Way Forward
Virendra Gupta and Jayaraghavendran, Huawei Technologies, India

B3.1 Formal Methods for Pattern Based Reliability Analysis in Embedded Systems
Sumana Ghosh and Pallab Dasgupta, IIT Kharagpur
C3.1 Block-level Electro-Migration Analysis(BEMA)for safer product life
Radhika Gupta, ST , Rakesh Shenoy Panemangalore, Synopsys and Atul Bhargava, ST
D3.1: Global Technology Progress in VLSI and Embedded Systems
INDIA - Dr. V Kamakoti
RUSSIA - Sergey Gavrilov
BRAZIL - Leticia Maria Bolzani Poehls
CHINA - Li, Xiaowei
E3.1: Invited Talk:Sensors & Systems for IoT - next wave of opportunity
Prasanth Perugupalli, MD, IMEC Ind

E3.1: Keynote Talk (Cont…)

A3.2 Invited Talk: Standards for an IoT Era
Dennis Brophy, Mentor Graphics

B3.2 On Event Driven Modeling of Continuous Time Systems
Dushyant Juneja, Analog Devices
C3.2 Recessed MOSFET in 28 nm FDSOI for better breakdown characteristics
Kranthi Nagothu, RadhaKrishnan Sithanandam and Rama S. Komaragiri, NIT Calicut & ST
   

C3.3 Design of high speed ternary full adder and three-input XOR circuits using CNTFETs
Anu Gupta and Snehlata Murotiya, BITS-Pilani

E3.2: Enabling low power battery operated Wlan devices for IoT
Saket Jalan, TI

 

Session 4, Day 2 (January 6, 2015) 2.45 PM to 3.45 PM

Track A

ROYAL BALLROOM

Track B

JAMAVAR(GROUND FLOOR)

Track C

KAMAL

Track D

GRAND BALLROOM

Track E

DIYA

Session A4: IOT & Product

Chair:Dheemanth Nagaraj, Intel

Session B4: Design Implementation

Chair: Rahul Rao, IBM

Session C4: Devices & Circuits
Chair: Sourav Saha, IBM
Session D4: Test & Reliability
Chair: Prashant Shrivastava, C2SiS
Session E4: User Design
Chair: K.A Rajagopal, TI

A4.1 A Frequency Scan Scheme for PLL-Based Locking To High-Q MEMS Resonators
Anjan Kumar, Abhinav Dikshit, Bill Clark and Jeff Yan

B4.1 A Novel CKE-ODT-CSN Encoding Scheme in DDR Memory Interface
Vinod Inipodu Murugan, Narayanan Mayandi and Sendhil Arul
C4.1 A noise aware CML latch modelling for large system simulation
Abhijit Chatterjee, Debesh Bhatta and Suvadeep Banerjee, Georgia Tech
D4.1 New Methods for Simulation Speed-up and Test Qualification With Analog Fault Simulation
Lakshmanan Balasubramanian, Devanathan VR and Rubin Parekhji, TI
E4.1: Personalized smart network using wearable devices in an IOT configuration
Sachin Kamat and Tushar Behera

A4.2 NFC Products For Pervasive Healthcare
Prabhakar T V, Ujwal Mysore, Uday Singh Saini, Vinoy K J and Bharadwaj Amrutur, IISc-Bangalore

B4.2 A Design Approach for Compressor Based Approximate Multipliers
Naman Maheshwari, Zhixi Yang, Jie Han and Fabrizio Lombardi, BITS-Pilani & Univeristy of Alberta
C4.2 An Efficient Transition Detector Exploiting Charge Sharing
Yu Wang and Adit Singh
D4.2 Efficient Peak Power Estimation using Probabilistic Cost-Benefit Analysis
Prabhat Mishra, Hadi Hajimiri and Kamran Rahmani, University of Florida

E4.2: Design Automation for Low Skew Global Clock Distribution - Shraddha padiyar, Shanamaz Ganuga and Animesh Jain

A4.3 Hardware Solution For Real-time Face Recognition
Gopinath Mahale, Hamsika Mahale, Arnav Goel, S.K. Nandy, Sukumar Bhattacharya and Ranjani Narayan, IISc-Bangalore
B4.3 Integrated 16-channel Transmit and Receive Beamforming ASIC for Ultrasound Imaging
Chandrashekar Dusa, Samiyuktha Kalalii, Omkeshwar B and Rajalakshmi P, IITH

C4.3 A High-Efficiency Switched-Capacitance HTFET Charge Pump For Low-Input-Voltage Applications
Xueqing Li, Unsuk Heo, Huichu Liu, Sumeet Gupta, Suman Datta and Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Penn State USA

D4.3 DFT Technique for Quick Characterization of Flash Offset in Pipeline ADCs
Pradeep Nair and Nagarajan Viswanathan, TI
E4.3: Parameterized and Re-usable Jitter Model for Serial and Parallel Interfaces
Amlan Chakrabarti and Malathi Chikkanna, AMD

 

Session 5, Day 2 (January 6, 2015) 4.00 PM to 5.30 PM

Track A

ROYAL BALLROOM

Track B

JAMAVAR(GROUND FLOOR)

Track C

KAMAL

Track D

GRAND BALLROOM

Track E

DIYA

Session A5: Product & Emerging Technologies
Chair: Jai Balakrishnan, TI
Session B5: Design Implementation
Chair: Srikanth Raghavan, ARM
Session C5: Special Session on Sensors

Chair: Jagannanthan Venkataraman, TI

Session D5: Test & Reliability
Chair: Sandeep Pendharkar, AMD
Session E5: User Design
Chair: Anurag Gupta, LGE

A5.1: Invited Talk:India Microprocessor
Prof. Kamakoti, IIT-M

B5.1 Thermal-aware application scheduling on device-heterogeneous embedded architectures
Karthik Swaminathan, Jagadish Kotra, Huichu Liu, Jack Sampson, Mahmut Kandemir and Vijaykrishnan Narayanan
C5.1: Invited Session 1: Sensors to Systems to Applications
Ramgopal Rao, IIT Mumbai
D5.1 Invited Talk: Recent Advances in Test Compression
Nilanjan Mukherjee, Engineering Director, Test Synthesis, Silicon Test Solution, Mentor Graphics Corp., USA
E5.1: Test pattern volume reduction using RRFA based Test Point Insertion
Vineet Srivastava, Vijay Premchandar and Satish Ravichandran, PMC-Sierra
B5.2 Exploring Scope of Power Reduction with Constrained Physical Synthesis
Kaustav Guha-Cadence, Sourav Saha and Ricardo Nigaglioni, IBM
D5.2 Framework for Selective Flip-Flop Replacement for Soft-Error Mitigation
Pavan Vithal Torvi, Devanathan VR and Kamakoti V, IIT-M

E5.2: Performing SoC level SDF Simulations using Testbench Acceleration
Srikanth Srinivasan and Balaji Kaliraj, Broadcom

A5.3 Robot navigation using neuro-electronic hybrid systems
Jude Baby, Grace Mathew Abraham, Bharadwaj Amrutur and Sujit Kumar Sikdar, IISc
B5.3 All Optical Implementation of Mach-Zehnder Interferometer based Reversible Sequential Counters
Pratik Dutta, Chandan Bandyopadhyay and Hafizur Rahaman

C5.2: Invited Session 2: Development of MEMS sensors for agriculture
Rudra Pratap, IISc

D5.3 Diagnostic Tests for Pre-Bond TSV Defects
Bei Zhang and Vishwani Agrawal, Auburn University
E5.3: A novel approach to detect manufacturing faults in functional clock paths using ATPG
Rajesh Mittal, TI
A5.4 Comparison of Off-chip Training Methods for Neuromemristive Systems
Cory Merkel and Dhireesha Kudithipudi, RIT USA
B5.4 Design of a Compact Reversible Carry Look-Ahead Adder Using Dynamic Programming
Nusrat Jahan Lisa and Hafiz Md Hasan Babu, University of Dhaka
D5.4 Few Good Frequencies for Power-Constrained Test
Sindhu Gunasekar and Vishwani Agrawal
E5.4: System State Retention Verification using ATPG tool for Debug
Prakash Venkitaraman and Jais Abraham, AMD

 

Session 6, Day 3 (January 7, 2014): 12.00 PM to 1.00 PM

Track A

ROYAL BALLROOM

Track B

JAMAVAR(GROUND FLOOR)

Track C

KAMAL

Track D

GRAND BALLROOM

Track E

DIYA

Session A6: System Level Design
Chair: Shankar Ramakrishnan, TI
Session B6: Poster Session Session C6: Digital & FPGA
Chair: Manish Saluja, Samsung
Session D6:Test & Reliability
Chair: Triveni Rachapalli, Qualcomm
Session E6: User Design
Chair: Ravindra Babu, Cypress

A6.1 OcNoC: Efficient One-cycle Implementation of Routers for 3D Mesh Networks on Chip
Lucas Brahm, Ramon Fernandes, Thais Webber, Rodrigo Cataldo, Letícia B. Poehls and César Marcon

Poster Session 1 C6.1 Power Optimization Techniques for DDR3 SDRAM
Preeti Ranjan Panda, Vishal Patel, Praxal Shah, Namita Sharma - IIT-Delhi, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan and Dipankar Sarma - IBM
D6.1 Invited Talk: Volume Diagnosis for Yield Improvement
Wu-Tung Cheng, Mentor Graphics Corp., USA and Sudhakar M. Reddy, University of Iowa, USA
E6.1: A Paradigm Shift to SoC Verification - Scalable Methods to Bridge the Gap between IP and SoC Verification
Gaurav Gupta, Tejbal Prasad, Rohit Goyal and Sachin Jain, Freescale

A6.2 Mode-Division-Multiplexed Photonic Router for High Performance Network-on-Chip
Dharanidhar Dang, Biplab Patra, Rabi Mahapatra and Martin Fiers, Texas A&M University

C6.2 A Novel Ternary Content-Addressable Memory (TCAM) Design Using Reversible Logic
Dinesh Kumar Selvakumaran and Noor Mahammad Sk
D6.2 Using Boolean Tests to Improve Detection of Transistor Stuck-open Faults in CMOS Digital Logic Circuits
Xijiang lin, Sudhakar Reddy and Janusz Rajski

E6.2: OVM test-bench reuse from simulation to emulation
Sekhar Polasanapalli and Karthik Saripella, Intel

A6.3 A Hardware and Thermal Analysis of DVFS in a Multi-Core System with Hybrid WiNoC Architecture
Sri Harsha Gade, Hemanta Kumar Mondal and Sujay Deb

C6.3 Design and Analysis of Delay Elements for 2-Phase Bundled-Data Asynchronous Circuits
Guilherme Heck, Leandro Sehnem Heck, Ajay Singhvi, Matheus Trevisan Moreira, Peter Beerel and Ney Laert Vilar Calazans

D6.3 On-Chip Current Sensors and Neighbourhood Comparison Logic to Detect Resistive-Open Defects in SRAMs
Felipe Lavratti, Leticia Maria Bolzani Poehls, Fabian Luis Vargas, Andrea Calimera and Enrico Macii
E6.3: Strategies for Verifying Liveness Problems using Formal Verification
Srobona Mitra, Pradeep Nalla, Udo Krautz and Viresh Paruthi, IBM

 

Session 7, Day 3 (January 7, 2015) 2.45 PM to 3.45 PM

Track A

ROYAL BALLROOM

Track B

JAMAVAR(GROUND FLOOR)

Track C

KAMAL

Track D

GRAND BALLROOM

Track E

DIYA

Session A7:System Level Design
Chair: Shankar Ramakrishnan, TI
Session B7: Poster Session Session C7: Digital & FPGA
Chair: Manish Saluja, Samsung

Session D7: EDA

Chair: Arvind N V, Cadence

Session E7: User Design
Chair: Pradeep Salla, Mentor Graphics

A7.1 Bandwidth Adaptive Nanophotonic Crossbars with Clockwise/Counter-Clockwise Optical Routing
Matthew Kennedy and Avinash Kodi, Ohio University

Poster Session 2   D7.1 Statistical Analysis of 64Mb SRAM for Optimizing Yield and Write Performance
Gaurav Narang, Pragya Sharma, Mansi Jain and Anuj Grover, ST
E7.1: Efficient packet generation and interfacing with Verilog/SV testbench for logic verification of networking devices
Vikalp Khandelwal and Rishikesan Parthiban, C2Si

A7.2 Effects of Nondeterminism in Hardware and Software Simulation with Thread Mapping
Giordano Salvador, Siddharth Nilakantan, Ankit More, Baris Taskin and Mark Hempstead, Drexel

  D7.2 Recursive Wirelength Model for Analytical Placement
BNB RAY and Shankar Balachandran, IIT-M

E7.2: Unique generic solution for all verification needs
Rajender Kumar, Cerium-systems

 

C7.3 SPAA-Aware 2D Gaussian Smoothing Filter Design Using Efficient Approximation Techniques
Ankur Jaiswal, Bharat Garg, Vikas Kaushal and G K Sharma, IIITM Gwalior

D7.3 A Nonlinear Analytical Optimization Method for Standard Cell Placement of VLSI Circuits
Sameer Pawanekar, Kalpesh Kapoor and Gaurav Trivedi
E7.3: High-Level SoC modeling framework for Latency and throughput estimation
Sharan Basappa & Abhishek Ghate, HCL

 

Session 8, Day 3 (January 7, 2015) 4.00 PM to 5.30 PM

Track A

ROYAL BALLROOM

Track B

JAMAVAR(GROUND FLOOR)

Track C

KAMAL

Track D

GRAND BALLROOM

Track E

DIYA

Session A8: HPC
Chair: Prof. Madhu Mutyam,IIT-M
Session B8: LOC Session C8: Digital & FPGA
Chair: Sid Sinari, Broadcom

Session D8: EDA

Chair: Arpan Sircar, Mentor Graphics

Session E8: User Design

A8.1 Can you trust your memory trace?: A comparison of memory traces from binary instrumentation and simulation
Siddharth Nilakantan, Scott Lerner, Mark Hempstead and Baris Taskin

B8.1 Special Session : Continuous-Flow Biochips: Current platforms and emerging research challenges
Paul Pop, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark
C8.1 An FPGA-based Architecture for Local Similarity Measure for Image/Video Processing Applications
Jai Gopal Pandey, Abhijit Karmakar, Chandra Shekhar and S. Gurunarayanan, CSIR
D8.1 Monitoring AMS Simulation: From Assertions to Features
Antara Ain and Pallab Dasgupta, IIT Kharagpur
E8.1: Simplified power switch design methodology for big memory macros
Kedar Rajpathak, AMD

A8.2 Exploration of Migration and Replacement Policies for Dynamic NUCA over Tiled CMPs
Shirshendu Das and Hemangee K. Kapoor, IIT-Guwahati

C8.2 FPGA based Scalable Fixed Point QRD core using Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration Gayathri R Prabhu, Bibin Johnson and Dr. J Sheeba Rani D8.2 BDD-based Synthesis for All-optical Mach-Zehnder Interferometer Circuits
Eleonora Schonborn, Kamalika Datta, Robert Wille, Indranil Sengupta, Hafizur Rahaman and Rolf Drechsler

E8.2: Know Thy Ropes - For Accelerated Timing Constraint Analysis, Refinement And Validation
Divya Macharla, Asha Pradeep, Anand Kapadiya, Kunal Ghosh

A8.3 Cross-Layer Exploration of Heterogeneous Multicore Processor Configurations
Santanu Sarma and Nikil Dutt, UC Irvine

C8.3 A High-performance Energy-efficient Hybrid Redundant MAC for Error-resilient Applications
Sunil Dutt, Anshu Chauhan, Rahul Bhadoriya, Sukumar Nandi and Gaurav Trivedi, IIT Guwahati

D8.3 Optimized Logarithmic Barrel Shifter in Reversible Logic Synthesis
Sajib Mitra and Ahsan Chowdhury
E8.3: Qualifier Metric Based Critical Region Marking towards Targeted Design Optimization
Sourav Saha, Sridhar Rangarajan, George Antony and Vinay Singh, IBM
A8.4 Micro-architectural Enhancements in Distributed Memory CGRAs for LU and QR Factorizations
Farhad Merchant, Arka Maity, Mahesh Mahadurkar, Kapil Vatwani, Ishan Munje, Madhava Krishna, Nalesh S, Nandhini Gopalan, Soumyendu Raha, S K Nandy and Ranjani Narayan, IISc-Bangalore
C8.4 Energy Aware Computation Driven Approximate DCT Architecture for Image Processing
Vikas Kaushal, Ankur Jaiswal, Bharat Garg and G. K. Sharma, IIITM, Gwalior
  E8.4: Framework of an optimal design partition process for a multi-level hierarchical VLSI design
Chandrika M, Charudhattan Nagarajan, Rajashree Srinidhi, sabarikumar chinnakonda, Satheesh Kumar Sompalle and Allmin Ansari, IBM

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