James E. Smith
Emeritus Professor
PROFILE LINKS

2359 Engineering Hall
1415 Engineering Drive
Madison, WI 53706
Ph: (608) 265-5737
jes@ece.wisc.edu
Primary Affiliation:
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Profile Summary
Our research group is investigating future processors and systems that provide high performance, power efficiency and high reliability. This research is centered around a re-definition of architectural layering through Co-Designed Virtual Machines (VMs). These VMs contain a layer of implementation dependent software that is developed concurrently with the hardware. The VM software layer resides in a section of physical main memory that is hidden from all conventional software.