Contact Info:

Mark Hempstead
MD 311
33 Oxford St.
Cambridge MA, 02138

mhempste [at] eecs dot harvard dot edu

Journal Publications

• Mark Hempstead, Michael J. Lyons, David Brooks and Gu-Yeon Wei. Survey of hardware systems for wireless sensor networks (Invited). ASP Journal of Low Power Electronics, Vol. 4., No. 1, April 2008.

Conference and Workshop Publications

• Mark Hempstead, Gu-Yeon Wei, and David Brooks. An Accelerator-based Wireless Sensor Network Processor in 130nm CMOS (Invited). International Compilers, Architecture, and Synthesis for Embedded Systems (CASES). Grenoble France., Oct 2009.
  
  
• Mark Hempstead, Gu-Yeon Wei, and David Brooks. Navigo: An early-stage model to study power-constrained architectures and specialization ISCA Workshop on Modeling, Benchmarking, and Simulations (MoBS). Austin TX., June 2009.
  
  
• Mark Hempstead, Gu-Yeon Wei, and David Brooks. An accelerator-based wireless sensor network processor in 130nm ISCA Workshop on Architectural Research Prototyping . Austin TX., June 2009.
  
  
• Mark Hempstead, Gu-Yeon Wei, and David Brooks. System Design Considerations for Sensor Network Applications (Invited). International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS). Seattle WA., May 2008. (Invited Session: Energy- Efficient Building Blocks for Ubiquitous Sensing)
  
  
• Mark Hempstead, Gu- Yeon Wei, and David Brooks. Ultra Low Power System Architecture for Wireless Sensor Network Applications. Nanoelectronic Devices for Defense & Security Conference (NANO-DDS). Washington D.C., June 2007.
  
  
• Mark Hempstead, Gu-Yeon Wei and David Brooks. Architecture and Circuit Techniques for Low-Throughput, Energy-Constrained Systems Across Technology Generations. In Proceedings of the International Conference On Compilers, Architecture, And Synthesis For Embedded Systems(CASES). Seoul, South Korea. October 2006.[PDF]
  
  
• Qin Wang, Mark Hempstead, and Woodward Yang. A Realistic Power Consumption Model for Wireless Sensor Network Devices. In Proceedings of the Third Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks(SECON). Reston, VA, September 2006.[PDF]
  
  
• Yingmin Li, Mark Hempstead, Patrick Mauro, David Brooks, Zhigang Hu, Kevin Skadron. Power and Thermal Effects of SRAM vs. Latch-Mux Design Styles and Clock Gating Choices. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED'05), San Diego, CA, August 2005.[PDF]
  
  
• Mark Hempstead, Nikhil Tripathi, Patrick Mauro, Gu-Yeon Wei, and David Brooks. An Ultra Low Power System Architecture for Wireless Sensor Network Applications. In Proceedings of the 32nd International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA'05), Madison, WI, June 2005. [PDF][TALK]
  
  
• Mark Hempstead, David Brooks, and Matt Welsh. TinyBench: The Case For A Standardized Benchmark Suite for TinyOS Based Wireless Sensor Network Devices. In Proceedings of the First IEEE Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors(EmNets'04), Tampa FL November 2004. [PDF]
  
  
• Victor Shnayder, Mark Hempstead, Bor-rong Chen, Geoff Werner-Allen, and Matt Welsh. Simulating the Power Consumption of Large-Scale Sensor Network Applications. In Proceedings of the Second ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys'04), Baltimore, MD, November 2004. [PDF]

Other Publications

• Mark Hempstead, Xiaoyao Liang, Patrick Mauro, Gu-Yeon Wei, and David Brooks. Design and Implementation of An Ultra Low Power System Architecture for Wireless Sensor Network Applications (Contest). SRC Student Symposium – SoC design contest Phase 2, 1st place. Raleigh/Durham NC, October 2006.
  
  
• Mark Hempstead, Xiaoyao Liang, Patrick Mauro, Gu-Yeon Wei, and David Brooks. Design and Implementation of An Ultra Low Power System Architecture for Wireless Sensor Network Applications (Contest). SRC Techcon – Invited Paper: SoC design contest 2^nd place. Portland, OR, October 2005.