Texas A&M University- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
VLSI Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and Test Research Group

Research
People

Dr. Jiang Hu
Dr. Sunil Khatri
  • Personal Homepage
  • E-mail: sunilece.tamu.edu
  • Students:
    • Chunjie Duan (Ph.D)
    • Sabyasach Das (Ph.D)
    • Nikhil Jayakumar (Ph.D)
    • Nikhil Saluja (Ph.D)
    • Brock LaMeres (Ph.D)
    • Scott Campbell (Ph.D)
Dr. Peng Li
Dr. Ray Mercer
  • Personal Homepage
  • E-mail: mercerece.tamu.edu
  • Students:
    • Jennifer Dworak (Ph. D)
    • Sooryong Lee (Ph. D)
    • Yuxin Tian (Ph. D)
    • Brad Cobb (M. S)
    • David Dorsey (M. S)
    • Nathan Mickler (M. S)
    • Amy Wang (M. S)
    • Jimmy Wingfield (M. S)
Dr. Weiping Shi
  • Personal Homepage
  • E-mail: wshiece.tamu.edu
  • Students:
    • Xiang Lu (Ph. D) : wxiangece.tamu.edu
    • Shu Yan (Ph. D) : shuece.tamu.edu
    • Zhuo Li (Ph. D) : zhuoliece.tamu.edu
    • Ying Zhou (Ph. D)
    • Bill Hall (Ph.D)
    • Yuxin Tian (Ph. D) (joint with Prof. Mercer)
    • Charles William Price (M.S) : wpriceece.tamu.edu
    • Haobin Li (M.S) : haobinece.tamu.edu
    • Vijayakrishna Janardhana Vankayala (M.S) : vjvece.tamu.edu
    • Fangqing Yu (M.S)
    • John Brian Sublette (M.S)
Dr. D. M. H. Walker
  • Personal Homepage
  • E-mail: walkercs.tamu.edu
  • Students:
    • Wangqi Qiu (Ph. D) : wangqiqcs.tamu.edu
    • Bin Xue (Ph. D) : binxuecs.tamu.edu
    • Jing Wang (Ph. D) : j0w2111cs.tamu.edu
    • Nandan Bhat : nandanece.tamu.edu
    • Lei Wu : leiwutamu.edu

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Group Meetings
 Presentation Schedule - Spring 2005
(every Monday and Wednesday, 3:00pm-4:00pm, WERC 315)
exact date and time are announced by email
Date Presenter Topic slides+materials
2005 Feb 2
  • Dr. Khatri
A dynamic voltage scaling algorithm for energy minimization in hard real-time systems (ASPDAC 2005)Slides
2005 Feb 7
  • Cliff Sze
SPFD: a new method to express functional flexibility (by S. Yamashita, H. Sawada and A Nagoya, TCAD 8-2000)Slides
2005 Feb 9
  • Dr. Khatri
More about SPFD Slides
2005 Feb 16
  • Shu Yan
Extraction of Reduced-Order RC Circuit Models from 3-D Interconnect StructuresSlides
Note: All materials are for internal access only. Request of the materials should be made to the presenter.

 Presentation Schedule - Summer 2003
(every Monday and Thursday, 4:00pm-5:00pm, WERC 315)
Date Presenter Topic slides+materials
2003 Jun 16
  • Zhuo Li
Random Walks in a Supply Network(DAC 2003, by Qian et al.)Slides
2003 Jun 19
  • Cliff Sze
Two papers in DAC 2003 : Floorplanning and PlacementSlides
2003 Jun 23
  • Shu Yan
A paper from DAC 2003 on Parasitic ExtractionSlides
2003 Jun 26
  • Rishi
About Prescribed Skew Clock Tree (ICCD 2003)Slides
2003 Jul 3
  • William Hall
Pushing ASIC Performance in a Power Envelope (DAC 2003, by Puri et al.)Slides
2003 Jul 7
  • Anand
About Wire Shaping Based Skew Variation Analysis Slides
2003 Jul 10
  • Ke Cao
About Non-tree routing (ICCAD 2002, by A.B. Kahng) Slides
2003 Jul 14
  • Yi Huang
About buffered clock tree routing(ISPD 2000, by Aziz's group at UT Austin) Slides
2003 Jul 17
  • Roy
``A General Probabilistic Framework for worst case timing analysis'' (DAC 2002, by Michael Orshansky and Kurt Keutzer) Slides
2003 Jul 21
  • Xiang Lu
Statistical Delay Computation Considering Spatial Correlations (ASPDAC 2003, by Agarwal et al)Slides
Note: All materials are for internal access only. Request of the materials should be made to the presenter.

 Presentation Schedule - Spring 2003
(every Monday, 4:30pm,WERC 315)
Date Presenter Topic slides+materials
2003 Jan 27
  • Dr. Shi
An O(nlogn) time algorithm for optimal buffer insertionSlides
2003 Feb 3
  • Dr. Hu
UST/DME: A clock tree router for general skew constraints (ICCAD 2000, by Tsao et al.)Slides
2003 Feb 10
  • Yi Huang
Estimating routing congestion using probabilistic analysis (by Lou et al., TCAD 01/2002)Slides
2003 Feb 17
  • Will
MATCH project by Prith Banerjee's group at Northwestern UniversitySlides
2003 Mar 3
  • Anand Rajaram
Interval Methods for Modeling Uncertainity in RC Timing Analysis (by Cheryl Harkness and Daniel Lopresti) Slides
2003 Mar 24
  • Di Wu
Post global routing crosstalk synthesis (TCAD 12/1997, by Xue, T.; Kuh, E.S.; Wang, D.) Slides
2003 Mar 31
  • Dr. Hu
Porosity Aware Buffered Steiner Tree Construction Slides
2003 Apr 7
  • Prabhavathi Koteeswaran
Survey: Simulations of MEMS devices Slides
Note: All materials are for internal access only. Request of the materials should be made to the presenter.

 Presentation Schedule - Fall 2002
(every Tuesday, 4:00pm,WERC 315)
Date Presenter Topic slides+materials
2002 Sep 11
  • Dr. Hu
Buffer Insertion with Adapative Blockage AvoidanceSlides
2002 Sep 18 Behavioral Modeling of Analog Circuits by Wavelet Collocation MethodSlides+paper
2002 Sep 25
  • Dr. Shi
The rectilinear Steiner arborescence problem is NP-completeSlides
2002 Oct 2
  • Shu Yan
Capacitance Extraction 
2002 Oct 9
  • C. N. Sze
Circuit Clustering with Variable Interconnect Delay 
2002 Oct 16
  • Dr. Zeng
Design of GHz VLSI clock distribution circuit 
2002 Oct 23
  • Vijayakrishna
Topics about New CMOS models  
2002 Oct 30
  • Zhuo Li
Topics about New Fault Modeling  
2002 Nov 5
  • Dr. Hu
``A Fast Algorithm for Context-Aware Buffer Insertion'' by J. Lillis 
2002 Nov 12
  • Dr. Shi
Some Interesting Problems and Algorithms  
2002 Nov 19
  • Xiang Lu
Parametric Static Timing Analysis Slides
2002 Nov 26
  • Wendou Ma
Moment Computation of Non-tree Circuits  
Note: All materials are for internal access only. Request of the materials should be made to the presenter.
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