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Amit Berman Dept.
of Electrical Engineering Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Mayer Building, Office 953 Phone: +972-4-8294739 Email: bermanam@tx.technion.ac.il |
My
research is broadly in Memory Systems and Computer Architecture.
Short
Professional Biography
Amit Berman is
a Ph.D candidate at the Electrical
Engineering Department, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. He received the B.Sc and M.Sc in Electrical Engineering at 2006 and 2010
respectively. He is a recipient of several awards, including Hershel Rich Technion Innovation award, HPI fellowship and Intel
research award. He held engineering and management positions at Intel and Saifun (acquired by Spansion)
during 2003-2009. He authored several international publications in the field
of memory systems and computer architecture and holds several pending US
patents.
Publications
1) A. Berman, Y. Birk, “Retired Page Utilization in Write-Once Memory – a
Coding Perspective”, To Appear in IEEE International Symposium on
Information Theory (ISIT), 2013..
2) O. Rottenstreich,
A. Berman, Y. Cassuto, I. Keslassy,
“Compression for Fixed-Width Memories”, To Appear in IEEE
International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2013.
3) A. Berman, Y. Birk, “Utilizing
Retired Pages for Improved Write Capacity of Solid-State Drives”, Annual
Non-Volatile Memories Workshop (NVMW) 2013.
4) A. Berman, Y. Birk,
O. Rottenstreich, "Probabilistic
Performance of Write-Once Memory with Linear WOM Codes – Analysis and Insights", IEEE Allerton
2012.
5) A. Berman, Y. Birk, "Memory Array Microarchitecture: Algorithmic Techniques for Density and
Performance Enhancement",
Convention of IEEEI 2012.
6) A. Berman, Y. Birk, "Low Complexity Two-Dimensional Data Encoding for Memory Inter-Cell
Interference Reduction",
Convention of IEEEI 2012.
7) A. Berman, Y. Birk, "Accelerating Flash Memory Access by
Speculative Early Sensing Decision", Annual Non-Volatile
Memories Workshop (NVMW) 2012.
8) A.
Berman, Y. Birk, "Constrained
Flash Memory Programming", IEEE
International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2011.
9) A. Berman, Y.
Birk, "Error
Correction Scheme for Constrained Inter-Cell Interference in Flash Memory",
Annual Non-Volatile Memories Workshop (NVMW), 2011.
10) A. Berman, Y.
Birk, "Integrating
De-Duplication and Write for Increased Endurance and Performance of Solid-State
Drives", Convention of IEEEI, 2010.
11) A. Berman, R.
Ginosar, I. Keidar, "Order is Power: Selective Packet Interleaving
for Energy Efficient Networks-on-Chip", IEEE/IFIP Int’l Conf. on VLSI and System-on-Chip (VLSI-SoC),
2010.
12) A. Berman, I. Keidar, "Low Overhead Error Detection for
Networks-on-Chip", IEEE International Conference on
Computer Design (ICCD), 2009.
13) A. Berman, U.C.
Weiser, "Reliable
Architecture for Flash Memory", Emerging Memory Technology
Workshop, ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA),
2009.
14) R. Sahar, A. Lavan,
A. Berman, E. Maayan, B. Eitan et-al., "A 4b/Cell 8Gb NROM
Data-Storage Memory with Enhanced Write Performance", IEEE Int’l
Solid-State Circuits Conf. (ISSCC), 2008.
Awards
1)
Hershel
Rich Technion Innovation Award (2012)
2)
Intel
Research and Excellence Award (PhD studies, 2012)
3)
Michell Grant
(2012)
4)
HPI Fellowship (2010-2013)
5)
Intel Research and Excellence Award (MSc studies, 2009)
6)
Recognition, International Solid-State
Circuits Conference (2007)
7)
Best B.Sc Engineering Project (2006)
Invited
Talks
1) A. Berman, Y. Birk, "Accelerating Flash Memory Performance", Annual
Flash Memory Summit (FMS), 2011.
2) A. Berman, Y. Birk, "Flash Memory Performance: Insights and Multi-Layer
Trade-offs", Annual Symposium on Future Trends in Service-Oriented
Computing (FutureSOC), 2011.
3) A. Berman, Y. Birk, "Mitigating Inter-Cell Coupling in MLC NAND Flash via
Coding", Annual Flash Memory Summit (FMS), 2010.
4) A. Berman, Y. Birk, "Solid-State Drive (SSD) Future Architectures", Annual
Symposium on Future Trends in Service-Oriented Computing (FutureSOC),
2010.
In
the Press
T.
Fox, Workshop Convenes Best Minds in Data Storage to
Break Computing Bottlenecks
YouTube:
[Constrained Flash1, Probabilistic WOM 2, Network-on-Chip 3-5, Logic Design 4-18]
Teaching
Present
· Project supervisor
at HSDSL lab, VLSI lab, PSL lab
Past
· 046853 - VLSI
Architecture Design
· 046262 – High Speed
Digital Systems Design
· Lab2/3 – Introduction
to multi-core microprocessor
· Lab2/3 – High speed
communication protocols
Reviewer
1) IEEE
International Conference on Information Theory (ISIT’13)
2) IEEE
Transactions on Information Theory Journal
3) European
Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys'13)
4) ACM/IEEE
International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA'12)
5)
Annual International Storage and Systems Conference
(SYSTOR'12)
6) IEEE Transactions on
Computers Journal
7) Annual ACM/IEEE International
Symposium on Microarchitecture
(MICRO'11)
8) IEEE Global Communications
Conference (Globecom'11)
9) ACM
Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems Journal
10) USENIX
Workshop on Hot Topics in System Dependability (HotDep'10)
11) IEEE
Symposium on Massive Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST'10)
12) ACM/IEEE
International Symposium on Networks on Chip (NOCS'10)
13) ACM/IEEE
International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA'10)
14) International
Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC'09)
15) USENIX
Symposium on Operation Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI'08)
Patent
Applications/Provisional
1)
A. Berman, Y. Birk, "Device, method and computer readable program for
accessing memory cells using shortened read attempts", US61/507,616
pending.
2)
Y. Birk, A. Berman, "Mitigating inter-cell coupling
effects in non-volatile memory (NVM) cells", PCT/IB2011/053618,
US61/374,281 pending.
3)
A. Berman,
"Method of operating non-volatile memory", US61/107,669 pending.
4)
I. Bloom, A.
Berman, A. Rizel, "Tail signature ECC",
US60/980,518 pending.
5)
A. Berman, I.
Bloom, "Distribution switch", US60/980,515 pending.
6)
A. Berman, A. Lavan, "Error correction method and circuit for
NVM", US60/900,985 pending.
Contact
Amit Berman
Electrical
Engineering Department
Mayer
Building, office 953
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Haifa
32000, Israel
Phone:
+972-4-8294739
Fax: +972-4-8295757