Chris Chu Associate Professor

Contact Information:

• Email: cnchu at iastate dot edu
• URL: http://home.eng.iastate.edu/~cnchu
• Office: Durham 331
• Phone: (515) 294-3490
• Fax: (515) 294-8432
• Mailing address:

     Iowa State University
     Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
     2215 Coover Hall
     Ames, IA 50011-3060
  

Education:

• B.S. in Computer Science, University of Hong Kong, 1993.
• M.S. in Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin, 1994.
• Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin, 1999.

Research Interests:

• Computer-aided design of VLSI circuits;
  ISU VLSI CAD LAB
  Useful VLSI CAD links
• Design and analysis of algorithms;
• Discrete and continuous optimization.

Publications:

• Papers can be downloaded from the publications page.
• Source codes and executables can be download from the links below:
  FastPlace (Newest version 3.0, posted at Dec. 28, 2006)
  FLUTE (Newest version 2.5, posted at Jun. 20, 2007)
  FastRoute (Please check back a few weeks later)