Recent publications

"DACOTA: Post-silicon Validation of the Memory Subsystem in Multi-Core Designs"
Andrew DeOrio, Ilya Wagner and Valeria Bertacco
International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), Raleigh, NC, February 2009
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"Reversi: Post-Silicon Validation System for Modern Microprocessors"
Ilya Wagner and Valeria Bertacco
IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), Lake Tahoe, CA, October 2008
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- Best Paper Award

"Testudo: Heavyweight Security Analysis via Statistical Sampling"
Joseph L. Greathouse, Ilya Wagner, David A. Ramos, Gautam Bhatnagar, Todd Austin, Valeria Bertacco and Seth Pettie
International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), Lake Como, Italy, November 2008
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"CrashTest: A fast High-Fidelity FPGA-based Resiliency Analysis Framework"
Andrea Pellegrini, Kypros Constantinides, Dan Zhang, Shobana Sudhakar, Valeria Bertacco and Todd Austin
IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), Lake Tahoe, CA, October 2008
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"Optimizing Non-Monotonic Interconnect using Functional Simulation and Logic Restructuring"
Stephen Plaza, Igor Markov and Valeria Bertacco
ISPD, Portland, Oregon, April 2008
Best Paper Award
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Research

Research Projects

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Publications

By type:
Conference publications
Journal publications
Workshops publications

By topic:
Security
Reliable system design
Formal verification
Post-silicon and runtime validation
Low-maintenance simulation
Physical design optimization

Complete list

Books

Scalable Hardware Verification with Symbolic Simulation

Valeria Bertacco
published by Springer, 2005.

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Functional Design Error in Digital Circuits

Kai-hui Chang, Igor Markov and Valeria Bertacco
published by Springer, 2008.

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COMING SOON:

Post-silicon and Runtime Verification for Modern Processors

Ilya Wagner and Valeria Bertacco
Springer, 2009.

Invited presentations

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Ph.D. Thesis

I completed my Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Stanford in 2003. My advisors were Kunle Olukotun and David Dill. The title of my dissertation is "Achieving scalable hardware verification with symbolic simulation". For a high level overview of my PhD work, read this elevator talk.