Rahul Rithe

Hello, world!

My name is Rahul Rithe. I am a graduate student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. I work in the Digital Integrated Circuits and Systems Group headed by Prof. Anantha Chandrakasan.

About me

I received my S.M. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2010. As part of my S.M. thesis, I worked on developing a 'SSTA Design Methodology for Low Voltage Operation'. For this work, I was awarded the Ernst A. Guillemein Award for best S.M. thesis in Electrical Engineering by the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT.

I completed my undergraduate degree, B.Tech. (Honors), in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India, in 2008. While at IIT Kharagpur, I worked with Prof. Pradip Mandal on High Speed Serializer-Deserializer Design. I was awarded the President of India Gold Medal for best academic performance in the class of 2008.

Research Interests

I am interested in developing energy efficient systems for multimedia applications in portable devices. Power and battery life have become critical concerns with the ever-increasing use of multimedia applications, such as video playback, on portable devices. I am interested in exploring power reduction techniques at various stages of the design, including algorithms, architectures and circuits.

Selected Publications

  • R. Rithe, P. Raina, N. Ickes, S. V. Tenneti, A. P. Chandrakasan, "Reconfigurable Processor for Energy-Scalable Computational Photography," IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), 164-165, February 2013.

  • R. Rithe, C. C. Cheng, A. Chandrakasan, "Quad Full-HD Transform Engine for Dual-Standard Low-Power Video Coding ," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), Vol. 47, No. 11, 2724-2736, November 2012.

  • R. Rithe, S. Chou, J. Gu, A. Wang, S. Datla, G. Gammie, D. Buss, A. Chandrakasan, "The Effect of Random Dopant Fluctuations on Logic Timing at Low Voltage," IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, Vol. 20, No. 5, 911-924, May 2012.

  • N. Ickes, G. Gammie, M. E. Sinangil, R. Rithe, J. Gu, A. Wang, H. Mair, S. Datla, B. Rong, S. Honnavara-Prasad, L. Ho, G. Baldwin, D. Buss, A. P. Chandrakasan, U. Ko, "A 28 nm 0.6 V Low Power DSP for Mobile Applications," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), Vol. 47, No. 1, 35-46, January 2012.

Contact

MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratory
50 Vassar Street, 38-107
Cambridge, MA 02139

Email: rjrithe@mit.edu