[UCI-Calit2] Upcoming Event: CECS Distinguished Lecture

[Anna Lynn Spitzer]

Center for Embedded Computer Systems Distinguished Lecture

 

Title:                            Research Challenges in
High-Performance VLSI/SoC Circuits and Systems

 

Speaker:                      Eby Friedman, Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering, University of Rochester

 

Time:                           1:30 p.m. - refreshments; 2 p.m. -
lecture

 

Date:                           Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2007

 

Location:                     McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium

 

Abstract:                      The presentation is composed of three
parts. The initial topic will review the fundamental trends specific to
high-speed, high-complexity integrated systems, emphasizing many of the
primary issues that constrain existing and future digital and
mixed-signal integrated systems-on-chip. These issues will be discussed
in terms of the evolving criteria that affect the VLSI/SoC design and
synthesis process.  The second portion of the presentation will review
specific research problems and challenges that drive current and
near-term research focus in the field of VLSI/SoC design. Effort will be
made to distinguish between local vs. global research problems. Thus,
topics such as dual Vt CMOS circuits and on-chip interconnect noise,
determined by the local nature of the circuit structures, will be
compared and contrasted with research problems that focus on the global
nature of VLSI-based systems-on-chip such synchronization and clock and
power distribution networks.  Finally, specific results recently
developed at the presenter's research laboratory in response to these
challenges will be reviewed and summarized. Time and interest
permitting, different research results will be described in the areas of
power distribution networks for high speed, high complexity
applications, clock tree synthesis for increased tolerance to delay
uncertainty, resonant locking design methodologies, 3-D design
methodologies, algorithms, and test chips, design methodologies for
placing on-chip decoupling capacitors, low swing dual Vt domino and
adaptive body biasing circuit techniques for low power applications,
shielding methodologies for high speed interconnect, on-chip DC-DC
conversion, substrate coupling in mixed-signal systems, and design
methodologies for inductive interconnect.

 

Bio:      Eby G. Friedman received a bachelor's degree from Lafayette
College in 1979 and master's and doctorate degrees here at UCI in 1981
and 1989, respectively, all in electrical engineering. His Ph.D. advisor
at UCI was Dr. James H. Mulligan Jr. From 1979 to 1991, he was with
Hughes Aircraft Company, rising to the position of manager of the Signal
Processing Design and Test Department, responsible for the design and
test of high-performance digital and analog IC's. He has been with the
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of
Rochester since 1991, where he is a Distinguished Professor, director of
the High Performance VLSI/IC Design and Analysis Laboratory, and
director of the Center for Electronic Imaging Systems. He is also a
visiting professor at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. His
current research and teaching interests are in high performance
synchronous digital and mixed-signal microelectronic design and analysis
with application to high-speed portable processors and low-power
wireless communications. 

 

Faculty host:               Nikil Dutt

 

More information:        Melanie Sanders: (949) 824-1546 or
melanie.sanders at uci.edu

                        

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