Data-PSST Seminar Series Report

Report for the Seminar Series on Software Failures

The Vlsi Seminar Series

Increasing integrated circuit (IC) power consumptions and temperatures pose serious challenges to performance, cooling solutions, and lifetime reliability. In this talk, we describe modeling, analysis, and synthesis techniques to solve these problems systematically. We first describe an incremental synthesis technique permitting concurrent physical-level and architectural-level optimization. Th...

The Urban Seminar Series

What light does 10 years of experience with the Urban Health Initiative (UHI) shed on how advocates can realign public opinion, public decision making, and public funding to support large-scale social change? The UHI, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, aims to spur measurable improvement in the health and safety of children in five cities nationwide. The initiative’s ambitious strate...

The Vlsi Seminar Series

Force-directed placers are an attractive approach for placement and are of interest for several reasons. Large standard cell and mixed-size problems are handled seemlessly by such methods. Furthermore, force-directed placers provide continuous trajectories for cell locations and therefore seem quite amenable to timingand congestion-driven placement, physical re-synthesis, and so forth. Unfortun...

The Vlsi Seminar Series

The unabated silicon technology scaling makes design and manufacturing increasingly harder in nanometer VLSI. On one hand, major design objectives such as timing, power, and noise are often conflicting with each other in modern designs with multi-million gates, resulting in complex design closure. On the other hand, design closure no longer guarantees historical yield norm, requiring ever-chall...