VLSI Reading Group

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Overview

The reading group will meet in E2-209 on Tuesdays 3-4pm. 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

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
10/7/08
10/7/08
10/14/08
10/14/08
10/21/08
10/21/08
10/28/08
10/28/08
11/04/08
11/04/08
11/11/08 Veteran's Day (No Class)
11/18/08
11/18/08
11/25/08
11/25/08
12/02/08
12/02/08

Potential Papers

|- | 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.

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