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...

Prof. Shiyan Hu from Michigan Technological University visited VSCLAB at UCR. He also gave a talk titled "Smart Home Cybersecurity: Threat and Defense in a Cyber-Physical System" in the ECE department at UC Riverside. Dr Hu's visit in VSClab at UCR

Our recent works have been accepted into IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD) as follows: X. Huang, A. Kteyan, S. X.-D. Tan, V. Sukharev, “Physics-based electromigration models and full-chip assessment for power grid networks”, IEEE Transaction on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), (in press) H. Chen, S...

Kai He gave a talk titled "EM-Based on-Chip Aging Sensor for Detection and Prevention of Counterfeit and Recycled ICs", and Hengyang Zhao titled "Learning Based Compact Thermal Modeling for Energy-Efficient Smart Building Management" in the 34th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD2015) to be held in Austin, TX, Nov, 2015. ICCAD is one of...

Shujuan Wang has successfully finished CEN M.S. defense. Her thesis is titled "Modeling of smart building heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system." Shujuan will join Qualcomm after graduation. Shujuan CEN M.S. Defense

Taeyoung Kim's recent work has been selected to present in TECHCON2015 to be held in Austin,TX, Sept 20-22, 2015. He gave a talk and presented a poster titled "A Dynamic Reliability Management Framework for Dark Silicon". TECHCON conference is the premiere technical event of SRC(Semiconductor Research Corporation), featuring dozens of presentations from SRC's world-class student...

Ph.D. student, Taeyoung Kim won the Ph.D. Forum Best Poster - Research Award in the 2015 52nd IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference. This is the only award for the research related posters in the Ph.D. forum in DAC15 and one of the three awards (two other awards are for the best presentation and popular choice). This...

Dr. Arthur Mazer, the Principal Advisor of Southern California Edison (SCE) visited the VSCLAB. Arthur is an expert on the numerical analysis and optimization techniques. He is working on the adapting interior point methods to manage integer constrained optimization problems for energy policies and regulation optimization at SCE. He is collaborating with VSCLab on the...

Dr. Sheldon Tan's research project for developing novel electromigration analysis and modeling techniques has been funded by National Science Foundation (NSF). The new research project ( CCF-1527324) is titled "SHF:Small: Physics-Based Electromigration Assessment and Validation For Reliability-Aware Design and Management”. The new funding will support the EM related research at VSCLAB for three years starting...

Ph.D. student Hengyang Zhao won the prestigious Richard Newton Young Fellow Award from 42nd DAC and Design Automation Summer School. Congratulation on Hengyang! The Fellow award comes with a travel grant and free DAC registration for Hengyang to attend the DAC15 in San Francisco, CA on June 2015.The Richard Newton Young Fellow offers graduate students...

Ph.D. student Taeyoung Kim’s work has been selected for the Ph.D. forum in the coming DAC’15. His submission is titled "System-Level Reliability-Aware Lifetime Optimization for Embedded and Dark-Silicon Systems”. Congratulation on Taeyoung.Taeyoung will also present our recent work in the interconnect reliability analysis in the coming DAC’15: H. Chen, X. Huang, V. Sukharev, S. X.-D...

Dr. Sheldon Tan presented two papers in the IEEE/ACM Asian Southern and Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC) 2015 in Chiba, Japan. Among the two papers, our new electromigration model paper has been nominated for the Best Paper Award. Y. Zhu, S. X.-D. Tan, “GPU-accelerated parallel Monte Carlo analysis of analog circuits by hierarchical graph-based solver”...

The IRES students, Sojin Ahn, Cindy Chiang and Leila Suasnabar attended the annual Southern California Conference for Undergraduate Students held in the Cal State Fullerton on Nov. 22, 2014. The student also gave a presentation in the conference: S. Ahn, H. Fan Chiang, L. Suasnabar, S. X.-D. Tan, J. Zhou, ÒPractical high-speed network modeling and...

Dr. Sheldon Tan and Dr. Valery Sukharev of Mentor Graphics and Dr. Mark Chew of Mentor Graphics delivered a tutorial in the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD'14) In San Jose, CA. Dr. Tan presented tutorial talk titled " Lifetime Optimization for Real-Time Embedded Systems Considering Electromigration Effects". 10/15/2014 Dr. Tan gave an invited...

Dr. Tan gave an invited talk in the 13 th Stress workshop, which is dedicated to the chip reliability issues on Oct. 15, 2014 in Austin, TX. The presentation is titled as follows: 13th International Workshop on Stress-Induced Phenomena in Microelectronics (Stress Workshop), The University of Texas at Austin, Austin , Physics-Based Electromigration Assessment for...

The IRES students, Sojin Ahn, Cindy Chiang and Leila Suasnabar students gave a presentation in the post-IRES workshop held in UCR on Oct. 3th, 2014. Three IRES students presented their research and social activities in the seminar. The seminar was jointly held with another IRES program at UC Riverside directed by Prof. Albert Wang. About...

The PI participated in the annual SRC Logic & Physical Design Review's meeting at UC Berkeley. The PI presented the latest research results on new EM models and new system resource-based EM modeling techniques to the SRC and research communities.

Prof. Tan delivered a talk at EDA workshop, Daejeon Convention Center, Daejeon, Korea on August 26, 2014. His talk is titled "Physics-Based Full-Chip Electron-Migration Modeling and Cross-Layer Reliability Management".

Prof. Massimo Poncino from Politecnico di Torino, Italy, visited VSCLAB at UCR. He also gave a talk titled ÒÒTowards Computer-Aided Design of Electrical Energy Systems: Challenges and SolutionsÓ at the ECE department at UC Riverside.

The Mixed-Signal Nanometer Research Lab at UC Riverside has been changed to VLSI System and Computation Lab (VSCLAB) to better reflects the works and research topics undertaken in this lab.