Applica'on Tips (CAD/EDA)
Baihong Jin
• Name: 金柏宏 • GPA: 3.62 (19/46) • Experience
– MEMS Lab, HKU Exchange – Center for Energy-‐efficient Compu'ng and Applica'ons (Since Feb. 2013)
• Publica'on – MEMS`13 (2nd author)
Self Intro
• Offer – Berkeley EECS (Alberto Sangiovanni-‐Vincentelli) – UIUC ECE (Deming Chen) – CUHK CSE (Young Fung Yu) – Dartmouth M.S. in CS (75% Scholarship)
• Withdraw – UT Aus'n, Cornell, USC, CMU
• Reject – Harvard, Yale, Stanford…(M.S.)
Applica'on Result
• Sogware that helps chip design & fabrica'on – Circuit simula'on – Logic simula'on – Physical synthesis – Test & Verifica'on – Various op'miza'on problems…
• Skills needed – Number-‐driven, math & stats – Much sogware development involved – A strong background in empirical algorithm is helpful
What is VLSI CAD/EDA?
Great Places for EDA Research
Alberto Sangiovanni-‐Vincentelli
Sanjit Seshia
Edward Lee
Great Places for EDA Research
C.L. Liu (刘炯朗)
Mar'n D.F. Wong @UIUC
Jason Cong (丛京生) @UCLA & PKU-‐CECA
Andrew Chi-‐Chih Yao (姚期智)
Great Places for EDA Research
Zhiru Zhang @Cornell
David Pan @UT Aus'n
Sung Kyu Lim @GaTech Guojie Luo
@PKU-‐CECA Deming Chen @UIUC Cheng-‐Kok Koh
@Purdue
Great Places for EDA Research
Andrew B Kahng @UCSD
Puneet Gupta @UCLA
Igor Markov @Michigan
Great Places for EDA Research
• What are the best VLSI CAD research groups in US universi'es?
• Follow Prof. Igor Markov and Pasquale Ferrara for more informa'on about EDA
• Quora is also a great place to know about other research areas.
• Some professors are very, very nice and ac've.
• Get some touch on real industry problems • Important Dates
– Registra'on Deadline: May 15 2014 – Submission Deadline: Sept 1 2014
• Problems – Technology Mapping for Macro Blocks (Contributed by Taiwan Cadence Design Systems, Inc.)
– Placement Finishing -‐ Detailed Placement and Legaliza'on (Contributed by IBM Research, Aus'n, TX)
– Mask Op'miza'on (Contributed by IBM Research, East Fishkill, NY)
Great Opportuni'es to Show Your Poten'al
• Your advisor at PKU – Alumni? – Academic coopera'on? – Personal rela'onship?
• Academic conferences in China and Abroad – ICCAD, DAC, DATE, ASP-‐DAC…
• Students – Current students in U.S.
How to Get Connected?
CECA EDA Group
• Prof. Guojie Luo – UCLA Ph.D. (2011) – PKU Bachelor in CS
• Research Area – VLSI Physical Design – Algorithm
• Welcome New Students – Email [email protected]
Ques'ons?
Thank You
Emails welcome! [email protected]