Welcome to DEVA lab

If you are interested in my research, please e-mail me at yingchen@sfsu.edu (or drop by my office)

Possible topics of research include, but not limited to the following:

• Computer Achitecture
• Architeture for bioinformatics computing
• Branch Prediction
• Data Prefeching Algorithms
• Intelligent Memory Architecture
• Speculative Techniques on Improving Data Cache Perfomance
• Instruction-Level Parallelism (ILP) and Thread-Level Parallelism
• Design Process
• Microarchitecture-awared Floorplanning for uniprocessor/multiprocessor
• Superscalar Processor Design
• Reconfigurable Computing
• Processor and Memory Design for Multimedia Applications
• Power Efficient Design
• Multithreaded/Multiprocessor Architectures
• Wrong-path and Wrong-thread Architecture
• Modeling of Cache Coherency Protocols
• Multicore Processor Design
• Verification
• Heuristic Algorithms in Design Verification
• Efficient Test Vector Generation

My related publications: research projects/interests.