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Model Development And Assessment Of The Gate Network In A High-Performance Sic Power Module, William Austin Curbow May 2019

Model Development And Assessment Of The Gate Network In A High-Performance Sic Power Module, William Austin Curbow

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The main objective of this effort is to determine points of weakness in the gate network of a high-performance SiC power module and to offer remedies to these issues to increase the overall performance, robustness, and reliability of the technology. In order to accomplish this goal, a highly accurate model of the gate network is developed through three methods of parameter extraction: calculation, simulation, and measurement. A SPICE model of the gate network is developed to analyze four electrical issues in a high-speed, SiC-based power module including the necessary internal gate resistance for damping under-voltage and over-voltage transients, the disparity …


Randomized Routing On Fat-Trees, Ronald I. Greenberg, Charles E. Leiserson Jan 2018

Randomized Routing On Fat-Trees, Ronald I. Greenberg, Charles E. Leiserson

Ronald Greenberg

Fat-trees are a class of routing networks for hardware-efficient parallel computation. This paper presents a randomized algorithm for routing messages on a fat-tree. The quality of the algorithm is measured in terms of the load factor of a set of messages to be routed, which is a lower bound on the time required to deliver the messages. We show that if a set of messages has load factor lambda on a fat-tree with n processors, the number of delivery cycles (routing attempts) that the algorithm requires is O(lambda + lg n lg lg n) with probability 1-O(1/n). The best previous …


Randomized Routing On Fat-Trees, Ronald I. Greenberg Jan 2018

Randomized Routing On Fat-Trees, Ronald I. Greenberg

Ronald Greenberg

Fat-trees are a class of routing networks for hardware-efficient parallel computation. This paper presents a randomized algorithm for routing messages on a fat-tree. The quality of the algorithm is measured in terms of the load factor of a set of messages to be routed, which is a lower bound on the time required to deliver the messages. We show that if a set of messages has load factor lambda on a fat-tree with n processors, the number of delivery cycles (routing attempts) that the algorithm requires is O(lambda+lgnlglgn) with probability 1-O(1/ …


On The Area Of Hypercube Layouts, Ronald I. Greenberg, Lee Guan Jan 2018

On The Area Of Hypercube Layouts, Ronald I. Greenberg, Lee Guan

Ronald Greenberg

This paper precisely analyzes the wire density and required area in standard styles for the hypercube. It shows that the most natural, regular layout of a hypercube of N^2 nodes in the plane, in a NxN grid arrangement, uses floor(2N/3)+1 horizontal wiring tracks for each row of nodes. (In the process, we see that the number of tracks per row can be reduced by 1 with a less regular design, as can also be seen from an independent argument of Bezrukov et al.) This paper also gives a simple formula for the wire density at any cut position and a …


Efficient Interconnection Schemes For Vlsi And Parallel Computation, Ronald I. Greenberg Jan 2018

Efficient Interconnection Schemes For Vlsi And Parallel Computation, Ronald I. Greenberg

Ronald Greenberg

This thesis is primarily concerned with two problems of interconnecting components in VLSI technologies. In the first case, the goal is to construct efficient interconnection networks for general-purpose parallel computers. The second problem is a more specialized problem in the design of VLSI chips, namely multilayer channel routing. In addition, a final part of this thesis provides lower bounds on the area required for VLSI implementations of finite-state machines. This thesis shows that networks based on Leiserson's fat-tree architecture are nearly as good as any network built in a comparable amount of physical space. It shows that these "universal" networks …


At The Tone, The Time Will Be... Unknown – A Perspective On The Evolution Of Time In Telecommunications, Robert Iannucci Oct 2012

At The Tone, The Time Will Be... Unknown – A Perspective On The Evolution Of Time In Telecommunications, Robert Iannucci

Robert A Iannucci

No abstract provided.


Embedded Systems As Datacenters, Robert Iannucci Dec 2009

Embedded Systems As Datacenters, Robert Iannucci

Robert A Iannucci

No abstract provided.


Platform Thinking In Embedded Systems, Robert Iannucci Dec 2004

Platform Thinking In Embedded Systems, Robert Iannucci

Robert A Iannucci

No abstract provided.


On The Area Of Hypercube Layouts, Ronald I. Greenberg, Lee Guan Sep 2002

On The Area Of Hypercube Layouts, Ronald I. Greenberg, Lee Guan

Computer Science: Faculty Publications and Other Works

This paper precisely analyzes the wire density and required area in standard styles for the hypercube. It shows that the most natural, regular layout of a hypercube of N^2 nodes in the plane, in a NxN grid arrangement, uses floor(2N/3)+1 horizontal wiring tracks for each row of nodes. (In the process, we see that the number of tracks per row can be reduced by 1 with a less regular design, as can also be seen from an independent argument of Bezrukov et al.) This paper also gives a simple formula for the wire density at any cut position and a …


Configuring Client Software Using Remote Notification Us:6219698, Robert Iannucci, Chris Weikart Dec 2000

Configuring Client Software Using Remote Notification Us:6219698, Robert Iannucci, Chris Weikart

Robert A Iannucci

No abstract provided.


Computer System For Simulating Physical Processes Using Multiple Integer State Vectors Us:5594671, Hudong Chen, Peter Churchill, Robert Iannucci, Kim Molvig, Gregory Papadopoulos, Stephen Remondi, Christopher Teixeira, Kenneth Traub Dec 1996

Computer System For Simulating Physical Processes Using Multiple Integer State Vectors Us:5594671, Hudong Chen, Peter Churchill, Robert Iannucci, Kim Molvig, Gregory Papadopoulos, Stephen Remondi, Christopher Teixeira, Kenneth Traub

Robert A Iannucci

No abstract provided.


System For Synchronizing Execution By A Processing Element Of Threads Within A Process Using A State Indicator Us:5553305, Robert Iannucci, Steven Gregor Dec 1995

System For Synchronizing Execution By A Processing Element Of Threads Within A Process Using A State Indicator Us:5553305, Robert Iannucci, Steven Gregor

Robert A Iannucci

No abstract provided.


Multithreaded Computer Architecture: A Summary Of The State Of The Art, Robert Iannucci, Guang Gao, Robert Halstead, Burton Smith Dec 1993

Multithreaded Computer Architecture: A Summary Of The State Of The Art, Robert Iannucci, Guang Gao, Robert Halstead, Burton Smith

Robert A Iannucci

No abstract provided.


High Performance Memory System Pct:Ep0199134, Robert Iannucci Dec 1991

High Performance Memory System Pct:Ep0199134, Robert Iannucci

Robert A Iannucci

No abstract provided.


Parallel Machines: Parallel Machine Languages, Robert Iannucci Dec 1989

Parallel Machines: Parallel Machine Languages, Robert Iannucci

Robert A Iannucci

No abstract provided.


Efficient Interconnection Schemes For Vlsi And Parallel Computation, Ronald I. Greenberg Sep 1989

Efficient Interconnection Schemes For Vlsi And Parallel Computation, Ronald I. Greenberg

Computer Science: Faculty Publications and Other Works

This thesis is primarily concerned with two problems of interconnecting components in VLSI technologies. In the first case, the goal is to construct efficient interconnection networks for general-purpose parallel computers. The second problem is a more specialized problem in the design of VLSI chips, namely multilayer channel routing. In addition, a final part of this thesis provides lower bounds on the area required for VLSI implementations of finite-state machines. This thesis shows that networks based on Leiserson's fat-tree architecture are nearly as good as any network built in a comparable amount of physical space. It shows that these "universal" networks …


Randomized Routing On Fat-Trees, Ronald I. Greenberg, Charles E. Leiserson Jan 1989

Randomized Routing On Fat-Trees, Ronald I. Greenberg, Charles E. Leiserson

Computer Science: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Fat-trees are a class of routing networks for hardware-efficient parallel computation. This paper presents a randomized algorithm for routing messages on a fat-tree. The quality of the algorithm is measured in terms of the load factor of a set of messages to be routed, which is a lower bound on the time required to deliver the messages. We show that if a set of messages has load factor lambda on a fat-tree with n processors, the number of delivery cycles (routing attempts) that the algorithm requires is O(lambda + lg n lg lg n) with probability 1-O(1/n). The best previous …


Method And Apparatus For Division Pct:Ep0075745, Robert Iannucci, James Kleinsteiber Dec 1986

Method And Apparatus For Division Pct:Ep0075745, Robert Iannucci, James Kleinsteiber

Robert A Iannucci

No abstract provided.


High Performance Memory System Utilizing Pipelining Techniques Us:4685088, Robert Iannucci Dec 1986

High Performance Memory System Utilizing Pipelining Techniques Us:4685088, Robert Iannucci

Robert A Iannucci

No abstract provided.


Randomized Routing On Fat-Trees, Ronald I. Greenberg Oct 1985

Randomized Routing On Fat-Trees, Ronald I. Greenberg

Computer Science: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Fat-trees are a class of routing networks for hardware-efficient parallel computation. This paper presents a randomized algorithm for routing messages on a fat-tree. The quality of the algorithm is measured in terms of the load factor of a set of messages to be routed, which is a lower bound on the time required to deliver the messages. We show that if a set of messages has load factor lambda on a fat-tree with n processors, the number of delivery cycles (routing attempts) that the algorithm requires is O(lambda+lgnlglgn) with probability 1-O(1/ …


Method And Apparatus For Division Employing Associative Memory Us:4466077, Robert Iannucci, James Kleinsteiber Dec 1983

Method And Apparatus For Division Employing Associative Memory Us:4466077, Robert Iannucci, James Kleinsteiber

Robert A Iannucci

No abstract provided.