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Introduction

VLSI System and Computation Lab (VSC-LAB) at UCR focus on cutting-edge nanometer VLSI design methodology and design tool development for current and future nanometer System-On-a-Chip VLSI and real-time embeded systems. We address foundamental VLSI design challenges and enable a quantum leap to a new generation of nanometer SoC chip and systems. Our research is sponsored by the federal government agencies, electronic design automation industry, State of California and University of California.

Lab location and contact

  • Location: WCH 361
  • Tel: (951)-827-6161

VSCLAB Programs and Activities

Latest News

Ph.D. students Maliha Tasnim and Yibo Liu graduated

Ph.D. students Maliha Tasnim and Yibo Liu successfully defensed their thesis and graduated from VSCLAB during the summer 2024. Best wishes for their future endeavor!

Ph.D. Students from VSCLAB received industry intern offers for summer 2024

Ph.D. student Lamichhane will work for AMD for reliability related project during the summer 2024. He will join AMD for a full time job after graduation. Ph.D. student Jincong Lu will work for NXP semiconductor for reliability related project for...

Yibo's work on stochastic computing for divider design published in TCAD

This work, which mainly developed by PhD student Yibo Liu and Shuyuan Yu, developed a new stochastic computing framework for performing hardware based division operation for fixed point numbers for the first time. They applied so-called counting-based stochastic computing technique...

Dr. Sheldon Tan Receives $500K NSF Grant to Continue Electromigration Research in VLSI Chip Design

Dr. Sheldon Tan has just been awarded a prestigious grant from the National Science Foundation's CISE CCF Core Small program (CCF-2305437). The project, titled "SHF:Small: Learning-based Fast Analysis and Fixing for Electromigration Damage," is funded with $500,000 and spans from...

List of sponsored projects

Data-Driven Thermal Monitoring and Run-Time Management for Manycore Processor and Chiplet Designs

Principle Investigators Dr. Sheldon Tan (PI) Graduate Students Current Students Sheriff Sadiqbatcha Shuyuan Yu Wentian Jin Jinwei Zhang Mohammadamir Kavousi Yibo Liu Liang Chen (post-doc, SJTU) Subed Lamichlane Jincong Lu Graduate Students (graduated) Han Zhou (First job: Synopsys) Industry Liaisons...

Machine Learning Approach for Fast  Electromigration Analysis and Full-Chip Assessment

Principle Investigators Dr. Sheldon Tan (PI) Graduate Students Current Students Mohammadamir Kavousi Yibo Liu Subed Lamichlane Jincong Lu Sachin Sachdeva Graduate Students (graduated) Han Zhou Sheriff Sadiqbatcha Shuyuan Yu Wentian Jin Jinwei Zhang Liang Chen (post-doc, SJTU) Funding We appreciate...

VLSI reliability, resilience, fault-tolerant computing and dynamic reliability management

Principle Investigators Dr. Sheldon Tan (PI) Graduate Students Current Students Sheriff Sadiqbatcha Shuyuan Yu Wentian Jin Jinwei Zhang Mohammadamir Kavousi Yibo Liu Liang Chen (post-doc, SJTU) Subed Lamichlane Jincong Lu Graduate Students (graduated) Han Zhou (First job: Synopsys) Shaoyi Peng...

Modeling and Analysis for Accelerating Aging Effects for Copper Interconnect ICs

Principle Investigators Dr. Sheldon Tan (PI) Graduate Students Current Students Taeyoung Kim Chase Cook Zeyu Sun Hengyang Zhao Graduate Students (graduated) Dr. Xin Huang (Oracle Corp) Industry Liaisons Dr. Mehul Shroff, NXP Semiconductor, Inc. Dr. Ertugrul Demircan, NXP Semiconductor, Inc...

Dynamic thermal management for multi/many core 3D microprocessors

Principle Investigators Dr. Sheldon Tan (PI) Graduate Students Current Students Xin Huang Sahana Swarup Taeyoung Kim Daniel Quach Graduate Students (graduated) Dr. Zao Liu (Intel Corp) Dr. Xuexin Liu (Synopsys) Industry Liaisons Dr. Valeriy Sukharev, Mentor Graphics Corporation Dr. Ashish...

Statistical Characterization and Simulation of VLSI Circuits Considering Process Variations

Principle Investigators Dr. Sheldon Tan (PI) Collaborators Dr. Yici Cai, Tsinghua University, China Dr. Hao Yu, NTU, Singapore Dr. Jinjun Xiong, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA Dr. Chandu Visweswariah, IBM, USA Graduate Students Yue Zhao Ruijing Shen, Duo...

Parallel Computing and Simulation and of Nanometer VLSI Systems based on Multi/Many Core and GPU platforms

Principle Investigators Dr. Sheldon Tan (PI) Collaborators Dr. Yici Cai, Tsinghua University, China Dr. Hao Yu, NTU, Singapore Dr. Lifeng Wu, ProPlus Design Solutions Inc. Graduate Students Current graduate students Kai He, Hengyang Zhao Graduate Students (gradudated) Joseph Gordon (M.S.)...

Compact Thermal Modeling and Simulations, Software Thermal Sensor Techniques

Principle Investigators Dr. Sheldon Tan (PI), Dr. Yingbo Hua (co-PIs). Graduate Students Hai Wang, Zou Liu, Duo Li, Thom Eguia, Ruijing Shen, Shengyang Xu (supervised by Prof. Yingbo Hua), Wei Wu, Pu Liu, Funding support We appreciate the following funding...

Compact Modeling, Reduction and Simulation of Interconnect Parasitic Circuits

Principle Investigator Dr. Sheldon Tan (PI) Graduate Students: Hai Wang, Boyuan Yan, Duo Li, Pu Liu Funding supports We appreciate the following funding agencies for their generous supports of this project. National Science Foundation, "CAREER: Career Development Plan: Behavioral Modeling...

Simulation and Optimization of On-Chip Power Delivery Networks and Clock Networks

Principle Investigator Dr. Sheldon Tan (PI), UCR Graduate Students: Duo Li, Xue-Xin Liu, Zao Liu Collaborators: Prof. Xianglong Hong, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University Prof. Yici Cai, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University Prof. Bao...

VSCLAB facilities and computing resources

VLSI System and Computation Lab (VSC-LAB) at UCR focus on cutting-edge nanometer VLSI design methodology and design tool development for current and future nanometer System-On-a-Chip VLSI and real-time embeded systems. We address foundamental VLSI design challenges and enable a quantum leap to a new generation of nanometer SoC chip and systems. Our research is sponsored by the federal government agencies, electronic design automation industry, State of California and University of California. 

VSCLAB has a 1000 square feet lab space located in the WCH 361. The lab has many Apple iMACs and Dell PCs for students with latest software such as COMSOL, Matlab, and LabView. The VSCLAB current consists of three Linux Servers and one Windows server:  The first one (fermi) has two Intel 22-core E5-2699 CPUs, 320GBmemory, 7.6TB disk. The second server (kepler) has two Intel 16-core E5-2698 Xeon CPUs, 128GBmemory, one Xeon Phi 3120 coprocessor and one Nvidia Titan X GPU , 4TB disk. The third server  (newton) is an Ubuntu server, which has two Intel 8-core E5-2670 Xeon CPUs, 64GBmemory, two GPU cards (one Kepler K40, one Kepler K20). The fourth server (maxwell) is a Window server, which has two Intel Quad-Core E5620(2.4Ghz) CPUs with 36 GBmemory,  1TBhard disk. The server consists of one Tesla S1070 1U card (4 T10 GPUs with 960 cores) and is housed in the server room of BCOE, which has large the server power supply systems. We also have a Windows server (Maxwell) for Windows-only applications.  VSCLAB also has a number of high-performance PCs and iMACs. The MSLAB now hosts five general-purpose graphic unit processor (GPU) cards such as K20, K40 from Nvidia Corporation. VSCLAB also has licensed Cadence Design Tool Suites (Spectra, Spectra RF, UltraSim) and Synopsys design tool suites (Design Compiler and Physical Computers, HSPICE).

The previous VSCLAB webstie in MediaWiki format