Megan Wachs' Publications

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Chip Generator & Smart Memories
chipgen.stanford.edu

R. Hameed, W. Qadeer, M. Wachs, O. Azizi, A. Solomatnikov, B.C. Lee, S. Richardson, C. Kozyrakis, M. Horowitz. "Understanding Sources of Inefficiency in General-Purpose Chips." In Communications of the ACM, Oct 2011.
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K. Kelley, M. Wachs, A. Danowitz, P. Stevenson, S. Richardson, M. Horowitz. "Intermediate Representations for Controllers in Chip Generators" In Design and Test Europe, 2011.
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O. Shacham, O. Azizi, M. Wachs, W. Qadeer, Z. Asgar, K. Kelley, J.P. Stevenson, A. Solomatnikov, A. Firoozshahian, B.C. Lee, S. Richardson, M. Horowitz. "Rethinking Digital Design: Why Design Must Change." IEEE Micro, Nov/Dec 2010.
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R. Hameed, W. Qadeer, M. Wachs, O. Azizi, A. Solomatnikov, B.C. Lee, S. Richardson, C. Kozyrakis, M. Horowitz. "Understanding Sources of Inefficiency in General-Purpose Chips." InThe 37th International Symposium on Computer Architecture ( ISCA-37 , June 2010.)
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A. Solomatnikov, A. Firoozshahian, O. Shacham, Z. Asgar, M. Wachs, W. Qadeer, S. Richardson, M. Horowitz. "Using a Reconfigurable Processor Generator for Computer Architecture Prototyping." In The 42nd Symposium on Microarchitecture, (MICRO-42), December 2009.
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O. Shacham, Z. Asgar, H. Chen, A. Firoozshahian, R. Hameed, C. Kozyrakis, W. Qadeer, S. Richardson, A. Solomatnikov, D. Stark, M. Wachs, M. Horowitz. "Smart Memories Polymorphic Chip Multiprocessor." Winner of the 46th DAC/ISSCC Student Design Contest. In Proceedings of the 46th Design Automation Conference (DAC'09), July 2009.
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O. Shacham, M. Wachs, A. Solomatnikov, A. Firoozshahian, S. Richardson, and M. Horowitz, "Verification of Chip Multiprocessor Memory Systems Using a Relaxed Scoreboard.", In Proceedings of the 41st Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-41), 2008.
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A. Solomatnikov, A. Firoozshahian, W. Qadeer, O. Shacham, Z. Asgar, K. Kelley, M. Wachs, R. Hameed, and M. Horowitz, "Chip Multiprocessor Generator.", In Proceedings of the 44th Design Automation Conference (DAC 44), WACI Session, 2007.
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Sensor Networks
sing.stanford.edu

M. Wachs, J. I. Choi, J. W. Lee, K. Srinivasan, Z. Chen, M. Jain and P. Levis, "Visibility: A New Metric for Protocol Design." In Proceedings of the Fifth ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), 2007.
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J.I. Choi, J. W. Lee, M. Wachs, and P. Levis, "Opening the Sensornet Black Box." In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Wireless Sensornet Architecture (WWSNA), 2007.
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Robert Froemke, Megan Wachs, Zhe Chen, Prabal Dutta, Gary Myers, Glen Glassner, C.E. Schreiner, M.M. Merzenich, and Philip Levis. "A Wireless Device for Combined Subcortical Stimulation and Cortical Recording." The 4th Annual National Academies Keck Futures Initiatives on Smart Prosthetics: Exploring Assistive Devices for the Body and the Mind, 2006.

Catadioptric Arrays
www.brown.edu

D. Lanman, D. Crispell, M. Wachs, and G. Taubin, "Sperical Catadioptric Array: Construction, Geometry, and Calibration." In Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization, and Transmission (3DPVT), 2006.
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D. Lanman, M. Wachs, G. Taubin, and F. Cukierman, "Reconstructing a 3D Line from a Single Catadioptric Image." In Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization, and Transmission (3DPVT), 2006.
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M. Wachs, D. Crispell, and G. Taubin, "Calibrating a Catadioptric Light-Field Array." In ACM SIGGRAPH 2005,Poster Session, 2005.