Prof. Guofu Niu from Auburn University visited VSCLAB at UCR. Prof. Niu is an expert on device modeling,especially for bipolar devices. He is also the developer for Mextram, an industry standard compact model of bipolar transistors support by CMC. He also gave a talk titled "RF Linearity in SiGe HBTs: Characterization, Physics and Circuit Implications"...
Two PhD students, Taeyoung Kim and Zeyu Sun at VSCLab, which are directed by Prof. Sheldon Tan, have been awarded travel grants for ACM Student Research Competition (SRC) at 2016 International Conference On Computer Aided Design (ICCAD). Sponsored by Microsoft Research, the ACM Student Research Competition is an internationally recognized venue enabling undergraduate and graduate...
VLSI System and Computation Lab (VSCLab, PI:Dr. Sheldon Tan) has been extended for a GPU Education Center by NVIDIA by the end of this year, which is the world leader in accelerated computing. GPU Education Centers are recognized institutions that have integrated GPU accelerated computing techniques into their mainstream computer programming curriculum. GPU computing leverages...
Ph.D. student Xin Huang and Kai He passed their Ph.D. defenses today. Congratulation on their hard works and successful defenses. Xin's PhD work focus on the EM reliability modeling analysis and Kai's PhD thesis focuses on the GPU-based parallel computing and hardware security. Xin will join Oracle Corporation as the senior software engineer and Kai...
Prof. Tan gave an invited talk in the 4nd International Workshop on Cross-layer Resiliency (IWCR 2016) at University of California at Irvine. The tile of the talk is “Voltage-based EM Immortality Check and new EM Signoff Flow”. In this talk, Prof. Tan proposed a new EM assessment and signoff flow for the future VLSI chip...
UC-Mexus has funded the research project titled "Learning-based Thermal Behavioral Modeling, Optimization, Occupency Estimation for Smart Buildings". This is a joint research project (UC Mexus-CONACYT Collaboratie Grant) for one and half year (starting July 1, 2016). Prof. Esteban Tlelo-Cuautle of INAOE is the co-PI for this collaborative research. The reearch will focus on the modeling...
Prof. Tan attended the SMACD (International Conference Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design) and PRIME 2016 conferences held in Lison, Purtugal from June 27 to 30, 2016. The title of the talk is "Finite Differenence Method for Electromigration Analysis of Multi-Branch Interconnects" given by Prof. Tan on June 29th, 2016.
Two PhD students, Xin Huang and Taeyoung Kim at VSCLab, which are directed by Prof. Sheldon Tan, have been awarded travel grants for Young Faculty Workshop from 53rd Design Automation Conference (DAC). This is a special workshop organized for current, or soon to be, young faculty in the field of electronic design automation (EDA). This...
Prof. Leon O. Chua, often introduced as the father of the tiger mom and the inventor of the memristor, Chua Circuit, and Cellular Nonlinear Networks (CNN), from University of California, Berkeley visited in VSCLAB, and we introduced our lab research work at UCR. He also gave a talk titled "Ten Things You Didn't Know About...
Two PhD students at VSCLab, which are directed by Prof. Sheldon Tan, have received the Richard Newton Young Student Fellow Award from 53rd Design Automation Conference (DAC), which is a prestigious award for junior Ph.D. students who studied in the electronic design automation (EDA) and embedded system design areas. PhD students, Zeyu Sun and Chase...
Two PhD students at VSCLab, which are directed by Prof. Sheldon Tan, won Dissertation Year Program (DYP) Fellowships from UCR. Ph.D. student Xin Huang receives this award from the graduate program in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Ph.D. student Taeyoung Kim receives this award from the graduate program in Computer Science and Engineering. The prestigious...
Third-year PhD student at VSCLab, Taeyoung Kim will be a full-time intern as a software engineering intern in this summer at Intel Corporation. He will continue to develop the power modeling and optimization techniques for VLSI design. Second-year PhD student at VSCLab, Hengyang Zhao will be a full-time intern as a technical internship position in...
Fourth-year PhD students at VSCLab, Xin Huang will join Oracle Corporation and Kai He will join Cadence Design Systems, Inc. as full-time Senior R&D engineer positions after graduation. Xin, she already got many offers from Synopsys, Inc. and Cadence Design Systems Inc., which are the top EDA and semiconductor companies.
VLSI System and Computation Lab (VSCLab, PI:Dr. Sheldon Tan) has been named a GPU Education Center by NVIDIA, the world leader in accelerated computing. The GPU Education Center at Unviersity of California at Riverside has been renewed for another year. GPU Education Centers are recognized institutions that have integrated GPU accelerated computing techniques into their...
A new $460K grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) was received by Professor Sheldon Tan of VLSI System and Computational Lab at UCR for developing new physics-based compact electromigration (EM) reliability models and assessment techniques for VLSI interconnects. The project is part of the Integrity and Reliability of...
Prof. Sheldon Tan has been appointed as the Editor-In-Chief (EIC) for the journal: Integration, The VLSI Journal starting January 1st, 2016. (See http://www.journals.elsevier.com/integration-the-vlsi-journal/editorial-board). The Integration, The VLSI Journal is the primary journal for VLSI design, design automation and embedded systems from the Elsevier B.V., one of the largest scientific and academic publishers in the world...
Our recent work on the parallel computing, which was published on "Integration, the VLSI Journal" in January 2016, has been one of the most downloaded paper in last 90 days. As of Jan 1, 2016, the paper has been ranked as 6th of most downloaded papers. This work was funded by NSF Grant. K. He...
