Michele Petracca

Background

About Michele Petracca

From December 2011 I have been a Sr. Member of Technical Staff at Cadence Design Systems, working on technology development for Virtual Platforms in the Embedded System domain.From January 2009 until December 2011 I was a Post-Doctorate Research Scientist in the System-Level Design (SLD) group in the CS Department at Columbia University, under the supervision of prof. Luca Carloni. I received a Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering from Politecnico di Torino in 2009. Between 2007 and 2008 I also visited the CS Department at Columbia University as a Ph.D. student. I earned a M.Sc. degree in Computer and Communication Networks Engineering from Politecnico di Torino in 2005.My research focuses on the design methodologies for complex Systems-on-Chip, with particular attention on the power management, the architectural aspects, the on-chip communication infrastructure and the interaction between hardware and software.Specialties:* Embedded Systems Design* Hardware-Software Interaction* On-chip Power Management* On-chip Communication * High-Level Synthesis* RTL Design* Networking