Ph.D. student Zao Liu successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis today. His thesis is titled System-level thermal modeling and management for multi-core and 3D microprocessorsÓ. Congratulation on Zao. Zao is the 12th Ph.D. graduated from MSLAB. Zao will join Intel Corp at Arizona after the graduation. We wish Zao the best in his future endeavor.
A new book by Dr. Sheldon Tan, Dr. Guoyong Shi and Esteban Tlelo-Cuautle, has been published by Springer: Guoyong Shi, Sheldon X.-D. Tan, Esteban Tlelo-Cuautle, Advanced Symbolic Analysis for VLSI Systems -- Methods and Applications, Springer, 2014 This book provides comprehensive coverage of the recent advances in symbolic analysis techniques for design automation of nanometer...
Dr. Sheldon Tan visited the department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) of UCSD and presented an invited talk New Physics-Based Full-Chip Electron-Migration Analysis and System-level Reliability Management. Dr. Tan also visited Prof. Chung Kuan Chengs lab at UCSD.
Ph.D. student, Taeyoung Kim was award the Richard Newton Young Fellow to the 51th Design Automation Conference (DAC). Richard Newton Young Fellow is a prestigious award for junior Ph.D. students who studied in the electronic design automation (EDA) and embedded system design areas. Taeyoung will get supports from the award for his travel to coming...
Our recent work on the compact thermal modeling, which was published on the The Integration, The VLSI Journal, in January 2014 has been one of the most downloaded paper in last 90 days. It has logged 178 downloads during this period. As of May 8, 2014, the paper has been downloaded 263 times and is...
Dr. Valeriy Sukharev visited UCR Riverside . Dr. Sukharev is a leading scientist in the Calibre group in Mentor Graphics. He is an well-known expert on the reliability analysis and modeling for VLSI systems. He is a industry liaison of one funded SRC/NSF project at MSLAB. Dr. Sukharev presented an invited talk titled The physics...
Our work and paper on electro-migration based reliability analysis has been nominated as the Best Paper Award candidate in the coming IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference, which is the primary design technology conference in the semiconductor and EDA industry. X. Huang, T. Yu, V. Sukharev, S. X.-D. Tan, Physics-based electromigration assessment for power grid networks, Proc...
Nvdia Corporation donated a new K40 GPU, which is the last Kepler series GPU from Nvidia as part of CUDA Research Center Prof. Tan established at UCR. The new GPU, which costs about $5000, will significant boost the GPU and parallel algorithm development in MSLAB.
The OpenACC Accelerator Fortran/C/C++ Linux compilers from Portland Group Interntioal (PGI), which was dominated by Nvdia as part of the Nvidia CUDA Research Center, has been installed in MSLAB. This compiler will help boost the research works on GPU and parallel programming.
Prof. Sheldon Tan visited the department of Computer Science and Engineering at Seoul National University at Seoul and presented invited talk. Prof. Tan also visited Prof. Naehyuck Chang's research LAB at SNU. Seoul National University, Embedded System Research Center (ESRC), Seoul, Korea, Architecture Level Thermal Modeling, Management for Multi-core and 3D Microprocessors, Dec. 10, 2013.
The IRES 2013 post-program workshop was held in Bourns College of Engineering. Prof. Sheldon Tan and Prof. Albert Wang hosted the workshop. In the workshop, all the participating IRES students presented their research works and their social activities during the summer IRES program. The IRES program certificates were gave to the participating students at the...
Five new Ph.D. students joined MSLAB in this Fall. Also Ph.D. student Zao Liu finished the intern job at Intel Corp. Welcome those new and old students. We also have one Post-Doc, Dr. Haibao Chen, who graduated from Xi'an Jiaotong University with Ph.D. on applied mathematics and Ms. Lingling Tan, who is a Ph.D. student...
Prof. Naehyuck Chang , who the professor of Computer Science and Engineering department at Seoul National University, visited the MSLAB and CE-CERT on Aug.12 an Aug.15, 2013. Prof. Chang came to UCR to explore the collaborative researches on the advanced energy storage (battery), smart building and smart solar power techniques. Prof. Chang is well-known power...
The 4th International Workshop on Emerging Circuits and Systems (IWECS13), was held successfully in The University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China from Aug. 25-26, 2013. Dr. Tan is the organizer and international chair of the IWECS13. UESTC hosted this event. Prof. Hai Wang, who the associate professor at SJTU, is...
Dr. Valeriy Sukharev, who is the Technical Lead in the Calibre group of Mentor Graphics, visited MSLAB and EE department of UCR. Dr. Sukharev gave a department colloquium talk titled Beyond Blacks Equation: Full-Chip EM/SM Assessment in 3D IC Stack. Dr. Sukharev is industry expert on th'e chip long-term reliability issues such as electro-migration and...
MSLAB Alumni gathering in San Jose, CA with Prof. Tan. We have former Ph.D. student, Dr. Duo Li, Dr. Ning Mi, Dr. Ruijing Shen, Dr. Pu Liu and Dr. Xuexin Liu and Mr. Jian Cui (who is the MS student from MSLAB). We have wonderful dinner together.
Ph.D. student Xuexin Liu, successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis today. His thesis is titled Ò Parallel and Statistical Analysis and Modeling of Nanometer VLSI SystemsÓ. Congratulation on Xuexin . Xuexin is the 11th Ph.D. graduated from MSLAB. Xuexin will join Synopsys's IC compiler group after the graduation. We wish Xuexin the best in his future...
National Science Foundation and Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) funded Dr. Sheldon Tan's research on reliability-aware dynamic thermal management for multi-core and 3D microprocessors. The project, which is titled Thermal-Sensitive System-Level Reliability Analysis and Management for Multi-Core and 3D Microprocessors (NSF-1255899), will focus on the emerging thermal and thermal induced reliability issues in the multi/many core...