Xinping Zhu   Assistant Professor   Electrical and Computer Engineering   Northeastern University   409 Dana Research Center   360 Huntington Avenue   Boston, MA 02115   Office: 308 Dana   Phone: (617)373-5304, Fax: (617)373-8970   Email:

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Research and Experience

My main research interest is Computer-Aided Design (CAD) of VLSI circuits . For the past few years, I have been working mainly
on modeling and simulation of on-chip communication architectures, which involves various approaches of design space exploration
on the communication part of modern high-performance computing systems. Additional interests include engergy-efficient computing and cybersecurity.

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Software Release

• ARMn A multiple-PE cycle-accurate simulator with custom communication architectures which can utilize either wormhole routing based packet switching network or standard buses. Written in SystemC. Public Domain.

• PacMan A simulation framework which can automaticly synthesize simulators for cycle-accurate multiprocessors with custom communication architectures. C/C++. Public Domain.

• CoreConnect Simulator Released IBM CoreConnect Bus Model, using the OSM.

Publications

• Xinping Zhu, Wei Qin, Sharad Malik, Modeling Operation and Microarchitecture Concurrency for Communication Architectures with Application to Retargetable Simulation , Proceedings of International Conference on Hardware/Software Co-design and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS), Sep, 2004 ( pdf , powerpoint )

• Xinping Zhu, Sharad Malik, Using A Communication Architecture Specification in an Application-driven Retargetable Prototyping Platform for Distributed Processing , Proceedings of 2004 Design Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE 04), Feb, 2004 ( pdf , powerpoint )

• Xinping Zhu, Sharad Malik, A Hierarchical Modeling Framework for On-Chip Communication Architectures, Proceedings of International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), 2002. ( postscript, pdf, powerpoint)

• Hang-Sheng Wang, Xinping Zhu, Li-Shiuan Peh and Sharad Malik, Orion: A Power -Performance Simulator for Interconnection Networks, In Proceedings of the 35th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-35), Istanbul, Turkey, November 2002. ( pdf, powerpoint)

• Wei Qin, Subramanian Rajagopalan, Manish Vachharajani, Hangsheng Wang, Xinping Zhu, David August, Kurt Keutzer, Sharad Malik, Li-Shiuan Peh, Design Tools for Application Specific Embedded Processors , In Proceedings of 2nd ACM International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT), France, October 2002 ( pdf)

• Qianchuan Zha, Da-Zhong Zhen, and Xinping Zhu, Structure properties of Min-Max systems and existence of global cycle time , IEEE Trans. Automatic Control, Vol. 46, No. 1, 2001. ( pdf)

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