Ph.D. student Xin Huang and Kai He passed their Ph.D. defenses today. Congratulation on their hard works and successful defenses. Xin's PhD work focus on the EM reliability modeling analysis and Kai's PhD thesis focuses on the GPU-based parallel computing and hardware security. Xin will join Oracle Corporation as the senior software engineer and Kai...

Prof. Tan gave an invited talk in the 4nd International Workshop on Cross-layer Resiliency (IWCR 2016) at University of California at Irvine. The tile of the talk is “Voltage-based EM Immortality Check and new EM Signoff Flow”. In this talk, Prof. Tan proposed a new EM assessment and signoff flow for the future VLSI chip...

UC-Mexus has funded the research project titled "Learning-based Thermal Behavioral Modeling, Optimization, Occupency Estimation for Smart Buildings". This is a joint research project (UC Mexus-CONACYT Collaboratie Grant) for one and half year (starting July 1, 2016). Prof. Esteban Tlelo-Cuautle of INAOE is the co-PI for this collaborative research. The reearch will focus on the modeling...

Prof. Tan attended the SMACD (International Conference Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design) and PRIME 2016 conferences held in Lison, Purtugal from June 27 to 30, 2016. The title of the talk is "Finite Differenence Method for Electromigration Analysis of Multi-Branch Interconnects" given by Prof. Tan on June 29th, 2016.

Two PhD students, Xin Huang and Taeyoung Kim at VSCLab, which are directed by Prof. Sheldon Tan, have been awarded travel grants for Young Faculty Workshop from 53rd Design Automation Conference (DAC). This is a special workshop organized for current, or soon to be, young faculty in the field of electronic design automation (EDA). This...

Prof. Leon O. Chua, often introduced as the father of the tiger mom and the inventor of the memristor, Chua Circuit, and Cellular Nonlinear Networks (CNN), from University of California, Berkeley visited in VSCLAB, and we introduced our lab research work at UCR. He also gave a talk titled "Ten Things You Didn't Know About...

Two PhD students at VSCLab, which are directed by Prof. Sheldon Tan, have received the Richard Newton Young Student Fellow Award from 53rd 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. PhD students, Zeyu Sun and Chase...

Two PhD students at VSCLab, which are directed by Prof. Sheldon Tan, won Dissertation Year Program (DYP) Fellowships from UCR. Ph.D. student Xin Huang receives this award from the graduate program in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Ph.D. student Taeyoung Kim receives this award from the graduate program in Computer Science and Engineering. The prestigious...

Third-year PhD student at VSCLab, Taeyoung Kim will be a full-time intern as a software engineering intern in this summer at Intel Corporation. He will continue to develop the power modeling and optimization techniques for VLSI design. Second-year PhD student at VSCLab, Hengyang Zhao will be a full-time intern as a technical internship position in...

Fourth-year PhD students at VSCLab, Xin Huang will join Oracle Corporation and Kai He will join Cadence Design Systems, Inc. as full-time Senior R&D engineer positions after graduation. Xin, she already got many offers from Synopsys, Inc. and Cadence Design Systems Inc., which are the top EDA and semiconductor companies.

VLSI System and Computation Lab (VSCLab, PI:Dr. Sheldon Tan) has been named a GPU Education Center by NVIDIA, the world leader in accelerated computing. The GPU Education Center at Unviersity of California at Riverside has been renewed for another year. GPU Education Centers are recognized institutions that have integrated GPU accelerated computing techniques into their...

A new $460K grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) was received by Professor Sheldon Tan of VLSI System and Computational Lab 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...

Prof. Sheldon Tan has been appointed as the Editor-In-Chief (EIC) for the journal: Integration, The VLSI Journal starting January 1st, 2016. (See http://www.journals.elsevier.com/integration-the-vlsi-journal/editorial-board). The Integration, The VLSI Journal is the primary journal for VLSI design, design automation and embedded systems from the Elsevier B.V., one of the largest scientific and academic publishers in the world...

Our recent work on the parallel computing, which was published on "Integration, the VLSI Journal" in January 2016, has been one of the most downloaded paper in last 90 days. As of Jan 1, 2016, the paper has been ranked as 6th of most downloaded papers. This work was funded by NSF Grant. K. He...

Prof. Shiyan Hu from Michigan Technological University visited VSCLAB at UCR. He also gave a talk titled "Smart Home Cybersecurity: Threat and Defense in a Cyber-Physical System" in the ECE department at UC Riverside. Dr Hu's visit in VSClab at UCR

Our recent works have been accepted into IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD) as follows: X. Huang, A. Kteyan, S. X.-D. Tan, V. Sukharev, “Physics-based electromigration models and full-chip assessment for power grid networks”, IEEE Transaction on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), (in press) H. Chen, S...

Kai He gave a talk titled "EM-Based on-Chip Aging Sensor for Detection and Prevention of Counterfeit and Recycled ICs", and Hengyang Zhao titled "Learning Based Compact Thermal Modeling for Energy-Efficient Smart Building Management" in the 34th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD2015) to be held in Austin, TX, Nov, 2015. ICCAD is one of...

Shujuan Wang has successfully finished CEN M.S. defense. Her thesis is titled "Modeling of smart building heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system." Shujuan will join Qualcomm after graduation. Shujuan CEN M.S. Defense

Taeyoung Kim's recent work has been selected to present in TECHCON2015 to be held in Austin,TX, Sept 20-22, 2015. He gave a talk and presented a poster titled "A Dynamic Reliability Management Framework for Dark Silicon". TECHCON conference is the premiere technical event of SRC(Semiconductor Research Corporation), featuring dozens of presentations from SRC's world-class student...

Ph.D. student, Taeyoung Kim won the Ph.D. Forum Best Poster - Research Award in the 2015 52nd IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference. This is the only award for the research related posters in the Ph.D. forum in DAC15 and one of the three awards (two other awards are for the best presentation and popular choice). This...