VLSI Reading Group
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Overview
The reading group will meet in E2-209 on Tuesdays 2-3pm. Students will be selected to present an informal discussion of a chosen paper. Credit (pass/fail only) for the seminar is given based on your participation.
Participants
- Matthew Guthaus
- Sheldon Logan
- Jeren Semendari
- Keven Woo
- Derek C
- Seokjoong Kim
- Xuchu Hu
Fall 2008
| Date | Presenter | Paper | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9/30/08 | Jeff | Jaydeep P. Kulkarni (Purdue Univ.), Keejong Kim (Broadcom Inc.), Sang Phill Prak (Purdue Univ.), Kaushik Roy (Purdue Univ.), Process Variation Tolerant SRAM Array for Ultra Low Voltage Applications, DAC2008. | |
| 9/30/08 | Keven | Jie Yang (University of Michigan), Luigi Capodieci (Advanced Micro Devices), Dennis Sylvester (University of Michigan), Advanced timing analysis based on post-OPC extraction of critical dimensions, DAC2005. | |
| 10/7/08 | Seokjoong | Seungwhun Paik, Youngsoo Shin (KAIST), Multiobjective Optimization of Sleep Vector for Zigzag Power-Gated Circuits in Standard Cell Elements, DAC2008. | |
| 10/7/08 | Everyone | 5 Minute Update | |
| 10/14/08 | Xuchu | Minsik Cho, Suhail Ahmed, David Z.Pan, TACO: Temperature Aware Clock-tree Optimization DAC2005 | |
| 10/14/08 | Derek | Gupta, M, Oatley, J, Joseph, R, Gu-Yeon Wei, Brooks, D, Understanding Voltage Variations in Chip Multiprocessors using a Distributed Power-Delivery Network DATE2007 | |
| 10/21/08 | Sheldon | Pingqiang Zhou, Yuchun Ma, Zhouyuan Li, Robert P. Dick, Li Shang, Hai Zhou, Xianlong Hong, Qiang Zhou, 3D-STAF: scalable
temperature and leakage aware floorplanning for three-dimensional integrated circuits. [1] ICCAD 2007. | |
| 10/21/08 | Everyone | 5 Minute Update | |
| 10/28/08 | |||
| 10/28/08 | |||
| 11/04/08 | |||
| 11/04/08 | Everyone | 5 Minute Update | |
| 11/11/08 | Veteran's Day (No Class) | ||
| 11/18/08 | |||
| 11/18/08 | Everyone | 5 Minute Update | |
| 11/25/08 | |||
| 11/25/08 | |||
| 12/02/08 | |||
| 12/02/08 | Everyone | 5 Minute Update |
Potential Papers
- Focus primarily on DAC 2008
Old Schedules
Spring 2008
| Date | Presenter | Paper | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4/7/08 | Rigo | S. N. Adya and I. L. Markov, "Fixed-outline Floorplanning Through Better Local Search" Int'l Conf. On Computer Design (ICCD 2001), pp.328-333. | |
| 4/7/08 | Sheldon | Rao, R. M., Liu, F., Burns, J. L., and Brown, R. B. A Heuristic to Determine Low Leakage Sleep State Vectors for CMOS Combinational Circuits. ICCAD, 2003, pp 689-697 | |
| 4/14/08 | No class (@ ISPD) | ||
| 4/21/08 | Matt | Satisfiability (No Paper) | |
| 4/28/08 | Derek | Verilog-A & Current Work | |
| 5/5/08 | - | Out of Town | |
| 5/12/08 | Jeff | B. Mohammad, M. Saint-Laurent, P. Bassett, and J. Abraham. Cache Design for Low Power and High Yield. ISQED, 2008, pp 103-107. | |
| 5/19/08 | Keven | J. Sheaeffer D. Luebke K. Skadron A Hardware Redundancy and Recovery Mechanism for Reliable Scientific Computation on Graphics Processors. ACM, 2007 | |
| 5/26/08 | Nobody | No class (Memorial Day) | |
| 6/2/08 | - | No Class | |
| 6/9/08 | - | No Class (@ DAC) |
Winter 2008
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 1/10/08 | - | NOT MEETING |
| 1/17/08 | Matt | M.R. Guthaus, D. Sylvester, R.B. Brown. Clock Tree Synthesis with Data-path Sensitivity Matching, ASPDAC, Seoul, Korea, 2008, IN PRESS. |
| 1/24/08 | - | NOT MEETING |
| 1/31/08 | Yaron | Boyd, S. P. and Kim, S. J. Geometric programming for circuit optimization, In Proceedings of the 2005 international Symposium on Physical Design (San Francisco, California, USA, April 03 - 06, 2005). ISPD '05. ACM, New York, NY, 44-46. |
| 1/31/08 | Rigo | F. Wang, X. Wu and Y. Xie, Variability-Driven Module Selection with Joint Design Time Optimization and Post-Silicon Tuning, ASPDAC 2008. |
| 2/07/08 | - | NOT MEETING |
| 2/14/08 | Sheldon | Ketan N. Patel, Igor L. Markov and John P. Hayes. Evaluating Circuit Reliability Under Probabilistic Gate-Level Fault Models, IWLS 2003. |
| 2/14/08 | Keven | K.-C. Wu and D. Marculescu, Soft Error Rate Reduction Using Redundancy Addition and Removal , ASPDAC 2008. |
| 2/21/08 | Jeff | Liang, X., Turgay, K., and Brooks, D. Architectural power models for SRAM and CAM structures based on hybrid analytical/empirical techniques. ICCAD, 2007, pp 824-830. |
| 2/21/08 | Jeff | Cacti |
| 2/28/08 | Mohammed | Wei Huang; Ghosh, S.; Velusamy, S.; Sankaranarayanan, K.; Skadron, K.; Stan, M.R., "HotSpot: a compact thermal modeling methodology for early-stage VLSI design," Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, IEEE Transactions on , vol.14, no.5, pp. 501-513, May 2006. |
| 2/28/08 | Linh | Xin Li, Taylor, Brian YuTsun Chien, Pileggi, Lawrence T. Adaptive post-silicon tuning for analog circuits: concept, analysis and optimization. ICCAD 2007, pp 450-457. |
| 3/6/08 | NO MEETING | |
| 3/13/08 | Janak H. Patel (UIUC) | CMOS Process Variations: A "Critical Operation Point" hypothesis |
