Amit Berman

 

Dept. of Electrical Engineering

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Mayer Building, Office 953

Phone: +972-4-8294739 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting    end_of_the_skype_highlighting

Email: bermanam@tx.technion.ac.il

 

 

My research is broadly in Memory Systems, particularly Flash Memory. I'm also interested in computer architecture and micro-architecture design.

 

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 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 non-volatile memory and computer architecture and holds several pending US patents.

 

Selected Publications

·   A. Berman, Y. Birk, "Constrained Flash Memory Programming", [pdf]

      Accepted for publication, International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT'11), August 2011.

·   A. Berman, Y. Birk, "Error Correction Scheme for Constrained Inter-Cell Interference in Flash Memory", [pdf], [ppt]

2nd Annual Non-Volatile Memories Workshop (NVMW'11), March 2011.

·   A. Berman, Y. Birk, "Integrating De-Duplication and Write for Increased Endurance and Performance of Solid-State Drives", [pdf], [ppt]

      26th Convention of IEEEI (IEEEI'10), November 2010.

·   A. Berman, R. Ginosar, I. Keidar, "Order is Power: Selective Packet Interleaving for Energy Efficient Networks-on-Chip", [pdf], [ppt]

      18th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on VLSI and System-on-Chip (VLSI-SoC'10), September 2010.

·   A. Berman, I. Keidar, "Low Overhead Error Detection for Networks-on-Chip", [pdf], [ppt]

      27th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD'09), October 2009.

·   A. Berman, U. C. Weiser, "Reliable Architecture for Flash Memory", [pdf], [ppt]

      EMT Workshop, 36th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA'09), June 2009.

·   R. Sahar, A. Lavan, A. Berman, E. Maayan, B. Eitan et-al., "A 4b/Cell 8Gb NROM Data-Storage Memory with Enhanced Write Performance", [pdf], [ppt]

      54th IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC'08), February 2008.

 

Invited Talks

·   A. Berman, Y. Birk, "Accelerating Flash Memory Performance",

      6th Annual Flash Memory Summit (FMS'11), August 2011.

·   A. Berman, Y. Birk, "Flash Memory Performance: Insights and Multi-Layer Trade-offs", [video]

      6th Annual Symposium on Future Trends in Service-Oriented Computing (FutureSOC'11), June 2011.

·   A. Berman, Y. Birk, "Mitigating Inter-Cell Coupling in MLC NAND Flash via Coding", [ppt]

      5th Annual Flash Memory Summit (FMS'10), August 2010.

·   A. Berman, Y. Birk, "Solid-State Drive (SSD) Future Architectures", [video]

      5th Annual Symposium on Future Trends in Service-Oriented Computing (FutureSOC'10), June 2010.

 

Teaching

Present

·   044262 – Logic Design

·   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

·   IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom'11)

·   ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems Journal

·   6th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in System Dependability (HotDep'10)

·   26th IEEE Symposium on Massive Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST'10)

·   4th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Networks on Chip (NOCS'10)

·   37th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA'10)

·   23rd International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC'09)

·   8th USENIX Symposium on Operation Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI'08)

 

Contact

Amit Berman

Electrical Engineering Department

Mayer Building, office 953

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Haifa 32000, Israel

Phone: +972-4-8294739 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              end_of_the_skype_highlighting

Fax:     +972-4-8295757