Information theoretic and probabilistic measures for power analysis of digital circuits
Diana Marculescu · 2015
To my family ii Acknowledgments I would like to thank my advisor, Professor Massoud Pedram, for his continuous support, guidance and encouragement throughout the process of working towards my Ph.D. degree. I am deeply grateful for his support in difficult moments and for being not only my advisor, but also a friend. Special thanks to his wife, Afsane, who always encouraged me during my last years as a doctoral student. Many thanks to Professors Melvin Breuer and Michael Arbib for serving in my thesis committee and for giving me key advice during my last year as a doctoral student. I would also like to thank my colleagues in the Low Power CAD group at USC, especially Chi-Ying Tsui and Chih-Shun Ding for interesting and stimulating discussions. Also, I cannot omit from my acknowledgment list the people who guided and influenced my career even before it started: my elementary school teacher Veronica Marinescu, who introduced me to the wonderful world of mathematics; from “Politehnica ” University of Bucharest, Professors Octavian Stanasila and Paul Flondor of the Department of Mathematics who were my mathematics mentors during my college