{"id":11,"date":"2021-02-23T12:07:14","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T17:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/xsharon-hu\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2021-04-14T15:24:50","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T19:24:50","slug":"energy-and-reliability-aware-system-design","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/xsharon-hu\/research\/energy-and-reliability-aware-system-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy and reliability aware system design"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For electronic systems, energy\/power consumption and reliability are critical concerns due to their impact on the system cost and the environment. My work exploits characteristics of both applications (such as real-time control and multimedia) and underlying hardware (such as GPUs and heterogeneous multi-core SoCs) to design online and offline techniques to reduce energy and improvement reliability. Below are some representative papers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Y. Ma, J. Zhou, T. Chantem, R. Dick, S. Wang and <strong>X. Hu<\/strong>, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/8832262\">Improving reliability of real-time embedded systems on integrated CPU and GPU platforms<\/a>&#8220;, <em>IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems<\/em>, 2020, pp. 2218&#8211;2229. <\/li><li>J. Zhou, <strong>X. Hu<\/strong>, Y. Ma, J. Sun, T. Wei and S. Hu, <a href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/8798872\">&#8220;Improving availability of multicore real-time systems suffering both permanent and transient faults&#8221;<\/a>, <em>IEEE Transactions on Computers<\/em>, 2019, pp. 1785&#8211;1801. <\/li><li>T. Chantem, <strong>X. Hu<\/strong> and R.P. Dick, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/abstract\/document\/5551266\">Temperature-aware scheduling and assignment for hard real-time applications on MPSoCs<\/a>?\u201d, <em>IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems<\/em>, 2011, pp. 1884&#8211;1897.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>My former Ph.D. student, <a href=\"http:\/\/web.eng.fiu.edu\/gaquan\/\">Gang Quan<\/a>, and I received the <strong>Best Paper Award<\/strong> from 2001 Design Automation Conference for <a href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/935620\">our work<\/a> on power-aware scheduling for fixed-priority real-time systems. <a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.5555\/882452.874496\">Another paper<\/a> co-authored by us was recognized as one of the <strong>Most Influential Papers of 10 Years <\/strong>at 2007 Design, Automation, and Test in Europe Conference (DATE). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a related research area, I have worked on acceleration techniques for computational problems that arise in medical applications. For instance, I have studied problems in radiation therapy, a minimally invasive surgical procedure that uses a set of focused beams of radiation to destroy tumors. My students, colleagues and I have introduced novel algorithms as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/2539036.2539038\">GPU<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.google.com\/patent\/US20130158879\">FPGA<\/a> based acceleration approaches for radiation treatment planning, radiation dose calculation and deformable image registration. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For electronic systems, energy\/power consumption and reliability are critical concerns due to their impact on the system cost and the environment. My work exploits characteristics of both applications (such as real-time control and multimedia) and underlying hardware (such as GPUs and heterogeneous multi-core SoCs) to design online and offline techniques to reduce energy and improvement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3879,"featured_media":0,"parent":7,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/xsharon-hu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/xsharon-hu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/xsharon-hu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/xsharon-hu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3879"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/xsharon-hu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/xsharon-hu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/xsharon-hu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/61"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/xsharon-hu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/xsharon-hu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}