Lei Yang

Conference Publications

X. Chen, L. Yang, H. Lekatsas, R. P. Dick, and L. Shang, “Design and Implementation of a High-Performance Microprocessor Cache Compression Algorithm,” Proc. IEEE Data Compression Conference, pp. 43–52, Mar. 2008. (paper)
A. Shye, L. Yang, X. Chen, B. Ozisikyilmaz, A. Mallik, B. Lin, P. A. Dinda, G. Memik, and R. P. Dick, “Empathic Computer Architectures and Systems,” Proc. Int. Conf. Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems - Wild and Crazy Ideas VI (ASPLOS-WACI), Seattle, WA, Mar. 2008. (paper)
L. Bai, L. Yang, and R. P. Dick, “Automated Compile-Time and Run-Time Techniques to Increase Usable Memory in MMU-Less Embedded Systems,” Proc. Int. Conf. Compilers, Architecture, and Synthesis for Embedded Systems, pp. 125–135, Oct. 2006. (paper)
L. Yang, H. Lekatsas, and R. P. Dick, “High-Performance Operating System Controlled Memory Compression,” Proc. Design Automation Conf., pp. 701–704, Jul. 2006. (paper)
L. Yang, R. Dick, H. Lekatsas, and S. Chakradhar, “CRAMES: Compressed RAM for Embedded Systems,” Proc. Int. Conf. Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis, pp. 93–98, Sep. 2005. (paper)

L. Yang, R. P. Dick, H. Lekatsas, and S. Chakradhar, “RAM for Free,” in IEEE Spectrum, Aug. 2008. (Read it at Spectrum)
L. Yang, R. P. Dick, and H. Lekatsas, “High-Performance Operating System Controlled On-Line Memory Compression,” to appear in ACM Transactions in Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), 2008. (paper)
L. Yang, R. P. Dick, H. Lekatsas, and S. Chakradhar, “On-Line Memory Compression for Embedded Systems,” to appear in ACM Transactions in Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), 2006. (paper)
L. Bai, L. Yang, and R. P. Dick, “Automated Compile-Time and Run-Time Techniques to Increase Usable Memory in MMU-Less Embedded Systems,” to appear in ACM Transactions in Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), 2008.
L. Yang, A. Liu, and R. P. Dick, “Automatic Run-Time Extraction of Communication Graphs and Memory Access Patterns From Multithreaded Applications,” ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), under review.
X. Chen, L. Yang, H. Lekatsas, R. P. Dick, and L. Shang, “C-Pack: A High-Performance Microprocessor Cache Compression Algorithm,” IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems (TVLSI), under review.

L. Yang, X. Chen, R. P. Dick, L. Shang, and H. Lekatsas, “Chip Multiprocessor Cooperative Cache Compression and Migration,” Northwestern University, Apr. 2008. (paper)

L. Yang, H. Lekatsas, R. P. Dick, and S. Chakradhar, “Operating System-Based Memory Compression for Embedded Systems,” patent pending, NEC Labs America and Northwestern University, Feb. 2005.