Winter 2009

• EECS 295: Paralle, Distributed, Embedded Systems
  New Room: Bren Hall 1423

Research

• Overview
• Publications
• NSF CAREER Award
• Talks with slides
• Topics:
  • Hardware/software codesign of embedded systems, system synthesis, distributed real-time systems
  • Low-power system design
  • Wireless sensing systems, medical devices, system profilers

Projects

Wireless sensor applications

PipeTect: (NIST, with OCSD, SAWPA, IRWD. April 2009 - March 2012)

Monitoring underground water pipelines (fresh water, waste water)

Smart Sediment Grains: (NSF, with D. Foster, UNH. Sept. 2009 - Aug. 2012)

Using Eco to measure motion of particles under water.

Wireless sensor platforms

Eco:

world's smallest (1cm³) expandable wireless sensor for monitoring spontaneous motion of premature infants

Winner of ISLPED 2004 low power design contest

Everlast:

Solar-powered supercapacitor-operated wireless sensor node

Winner of ISLPED 2005 low power design contest

AmbiMax: (energy harvesting subsystem)

Modular, autonomous maximum power point tracking system with supercapacitor storage

DuraNode:

structural health monitoring for civil engineering over 802.11b

Winner of ISLPED 2004 low power design contest

Mini-FDPM, now renamed HBS (Handheld Breast Scanner)

non-invasive breast cancer detector

Power and Environment emulation and profiling instruments

B#:

battery emulator & power profiler

S# extension for solar panels

Winner of ISLPED 2003 low power design contest

EmPro:

Superset of B#, performs sensor input emulation

Tool and software architecture

Rappit:

Host assisting programming environment for synthesis of ultra-lightweight scripting engines for adaptive embedded systems

Tapper:

ultra-lightweight scripting engine with host assisted execution

Projects (exploratory)

HTML/PDF form generator

Data/Process grabber

Sensor network visualizer

Sensor network protocols

Extended regular expression for Kanji

Previous Projects

IMPACCT (phase 1), ImpacctPro (phase 2):

system-level modeling, scheduling, simulation, profiling tool for power-aware designs

Chinook (completed while at Univ. of Washington/ no longer active)

People

Current Ph.D. Students (in order of joining)

• Jinsik Kim (candidacy)
• Vahid Salmani (joined Spring '08)
• Hyeoungho Bae (joined Fall '08)
• Sehwan Kim (joined Fall '08)
• Liang Pan (MS winter '08; joined PhD (ICS) spring '08)
• Eun-bae Yoon (MS)
• Chang-ik Lee (MS)

Former students -- Ph.D.

• Jinfeng Liu, (Ph.D.'05 awarded; now at Synopsys) "System-level Optimization and Validation for Power-Constrained Embedded Systems."
• Dexin Li, (Ph.D.'06 awarded; now at nVidia) "System-Level Power Optimization and Management for Complex Embedded Systems"
• Keun Sik No (candidacy'04, Ph.D. Spring '07 awarded; now postdoc at BLI) "HBS: a Handheld Breast Cancer Detector Based on Frequency Domain Photon Migration"
• Chulsung Park, (M.S.& candidacy'05, Ph.D.Summer '07 awarded; now at Apple) "Challenges on the Design and Evaluation of Wireless Sensor Platform for Real-World Applications"
• Seung-Mok Yoo (Ph.D. Fall'07 awarded; now at ETRI) "Software Architecture for High Data Rate Wireless Body Sensor Applications"
• Jiwon Hahn (M.S.'03, candidacy'06, Ph.D. summer '08 awarded; now at Raytheon) "A Runtime System for Memory-Constrained Networked Embedded Systems"
• Chongjing Chen (M.S. '06, Ph.D. fall '09 awarded) "Low Complexity and High Throughput Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks"

Former students -- M.S. (not including others above)

• Jae Park (M.S.'05)
• Scott Lippert (M.S.'03)
• Devyani Sharma (MS April '06)
• Farhan Simjee (MS summer '06)
• Qiang Xie (ICS; candidacy)

Professional Activities

• Conference
  • ASPDAC'06 (TPC), DAC'06 (TPC, sub-topic chair of embedded hardware), ISLPED '06, Codes+ISSS'06, ASPDAC'07
• Journal Associate Editorship
  • Springer Design Automation for Embedded Systems (DAEM)
• Previous Activities
  • Conferences: DAC'05 (TPC), ISLPED'05 (TPC), Codes+ISSS '05 (past chair & TPC), CASES'05 (TPC), WASP'05 (TPC), CODES+ISSS '04 (General co-chair), WASP'04 (TPC), ASPDAC'04, DAC '04 , ISLPED'04 (TPC), CODES+ISSS '03 (program co-chair), ISLPED '03 (TPC), DAC '03 (TPC), CASES'02 (TPC), CODES '02 (TPC, web master), ISSS'2k, ASP-DAC 2k
  • Ph.D.Forum at DAC 2000, 2001 (organizer); 2002,
  • Journal Associate Editor: Journal of System Architecture, IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems

Personal interest

• My Mac-related links
• Naruwan

How-To

• Unicode and CJK latex in pdfTeX
• SSH public/private key setup
• Version control systems (RCS, CVS, SVN)