RIVERSIDE, Calif. ( www.ucr.edu)— A University of California, Riverside engineer builds electronic circuits just to break them as quickly as possible. A research team led by Sheldon Tan, a professor of electrical and computer engineering in the Bourns College of Engineering, has developed a new way to test the reliability of integrated circuits, such as...
Professor Sheldon Tan (PI) received a three-year grant (CCF-1816361) from National Science for developing new optimization and runtime management techniques for more reliable and robust nanometer ICs. The project is titled “SHF:Small: EM-Aware Physical Design and Run-Time Optimization for sub-10nm 2D and 3D Integrated Circuits”. This is a three year project starting August 1st, 2018...
Mr. Michael McComas (second right) of BAE System visited VSCLAB. Mr. McComas is the Director, External Innovation Sourcing for BAE Systems – Electronic Systems. Mr. Mike Allen (center), who is the Associate Director of Corporation & Strategic Partnerships at UCR also visited VSCLAB. Ph.D. students, Zeyu Sun and Sheriff Sadiqbatcha introduced the research works at...
Ph.D. student, Sheriff Sadiqbatcha, has received the Richard Newton Young Student Fellow Award from 55th Design Automation Conference (DAC), which is a prestigious award for junior Ph.D. students who studied in the electronic design automation (EDA) and embedded system design areas. A PhD student, Sheriff Sadiqbatcha will get supports from the award for their travel...
Many VSCLAB Ph.D. students will go for summer interns for the coming 2018. Chase Cook will go to Intel Corp in Hillsboro, OR; Han Zhou and Zeyu Sun will go Synopsys, Moutain View, CA; Shaoyi Peng will go to Cadence, San jose, CA. Congratulation on all of them. Wish them have a successful interns in...
Dr. Tan was just elected as the Technical Program Committte (TPC) Chair for IEEE/ACM Asian South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC) in 2021, which is to be held in Tokyo, Japan. This is an important position as ASPDAC is one of primary conferences in VLSI design and computed aided design area.
Dr. Tan's team published an invited paper in ASPDAC 18 on the fast EM acceleration technique. In this paper, Dr. Tan's team proposed a novel reservoir-based EM acceleration technique, which can lead to very fast EM failure without using traditional temperature or current based acceleration technique. As a result, the new technique can void the...
Our recent works on fast EM analysis using Krylov subspace has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integreation Systems (TVLSI) as follows: C.Cook, Z.Sun, E.Demircan, M. D. Shroff, , S. X.-D. Tan, "Fast Electromigration Stress Evolution Analysis for Interconnect Trees using Krylov Subspace Method" IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integreation Systems...
Our recent works on voltage based EM modeling has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD) as follows: Z.Sun, E.Demircan, M. D. Shroff, C.Cook, S. X.-D. Tan, "Fast Electromigration Immortality Analysis for Multi-Segment Copper Interconnect Wires" IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), (in...
Our collaborative paper with Prof. Haibao Chen at SJTU won the Excellent Student Paper Award: J. Peng, H. Chen, H. Zhao, Z. Sun and S. X.-D. Tan, “Dynamic temperature-aware reliability modeling for multi-branch interconnect trees”, in Proc. International Conference on ASIC (ASICON’17), Guiyang, China, Oct. 2017. Congratulation on Haibao, Hengyang and Zeyu are also co-authors.
Our recent works on EM survey has been published to Integration, the VLSI Journal: S. X.-D. Tan, H.Amrouch, T. Kim, Z.Sun, C.Cook, J.Henkel, "Recent Advances in EM and BTI induced Reliability Modeling, Analysis and Optimization", Integration, the VLSI Journal Congratulations Dr. Sheldon Tan and co-authors.
Our recent works on TDDB modeling for interconnect dielectrics has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integreation Systems (TVLSI): S. Peng, H. Zhou, T. Kim, H. Chen, S. X.-D. Tan, "Physics-based Compact TDDB Models for Low-k BEOL Copper Interconnects with Time-Varying Voltage Stressing", IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integreation Systems (TVLSI)...
Dr. Naehyuck Chang from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) visited VSCLAB at UC Riverside. He gave a talk titled titled "Design Automation of Cyberphysical Systems: System-Level Approaches for Energy-Aware Electric Vehicle Design and Management" for his recent works on EV and energy optimization for EVs.
Dr. Sheldon Tan was awarded Japan Society For the Promotion of Science (JSPS) International Fellowship. The JSPS fellowship will support the oversea researchers with excellent records of research achievements for short-term visits Japan and provide them opportunities for discussions, option exchanges, lectures and other activities. Dr. Tan will visit Prof. Takashi Sato at Kyoto University...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) continued the funding of the reliability research project at UCR for developing new physics-based compact electromigration (EM) reliability models and assessment techniques for VLSI interconnects. The project is part of the Integrity and Reliability of Integrated circuitS (IRIS) Program Phase III in DARPA. Dr...
Dr. Sheldon Tan has been re-apponted as the Editor-in-Chief (EiC) for Integration, The VLSI Journal for the coming 2018-2020 period. Dr. Tan has been the EiC for Integration, The VLSI Journal since 2016. The impact factor of Integration has increased from 0.703 in 2015 to 1.00 in 2016, which represents 42.4% improvement.
Two PhD students at VSCLab Zeyu Sun and Shaoyi Peng, who are directed by Prof. Sheldon Tan, joined 54rd Design Automation Conference (DAC) Work In Progress(WIP) session. Shaoyi Peng get supports from the award for his travel to attend upcoming 54rd DAC. This award is named to honor the memory of Dr. A. Richard Newton...
Dr. Ertugrul Demircan and Dr. Mehul Shroff received the 2017 SRC Mahboob Khan Outstanding Industry Liaison/Associate Awards with collaboration of VSCLab. This award recognizes those individuals who demonstrate outstanding commitment and effectiveness in facilitation of university research, mentoring of graduate students, and dissemination of knowledge and research results to industry.
Ph.D. student Taeyoung Kim passed his Ph.D. defenses today. Congratulation on his hard works and successful defenses. Taeyoung’s Ph.D. work focuses on the system-level dynamic reliability management. Taeyoung will join Intel Corporation as a full-time Senior R&D Engineer position after graduation.
One PhD students at VSCLab, which are directed by Prof. Sheldon Tan, has received the Richard Newton Young Student Fellow Award from 54rd Design Automation Conference (DAC), which is a prestigious award for junior Ph.D. students who studied in the electronic design automation (EDA) and embedded system design areas. A PhD student, Shaoyi Peng will...
