Evangeline Young's Publications

• Handling Routability in Floorplan Design with Twin Binary Trees , Steve T.W. Lai, Evangeline F.Y. Young and Chris C.N. Chu, Integration, the VLSI Journal. 42(4):449-456, 2009.
• Congestion Prediction in Early Stages of Physical Design , Chiu-Wing Sham and Evangeline F.Y. Young, ACM Transaction on Design Automation of Electronic Systems. To appear.
• Block Flipping and White Space Distribution for Wirelength Minimization , Chiu-Wing Sham, Evangeline F.Y. Young and Chris C.N. Chu, Integration, the VLSI Journal. To appear.
• Multi-bend Bus Driven Floorplanning , Jill H.Y. Law and Evangeline F.Y. Young, Integration, the VLSI Journal, 41(2):306-316, 2008.
• Optimizing Wirelength and Routability by Searching Alternative Packings in Floorplanning , Chiu-Wing Sham, Evangeline F.Y. Young and Hai Zhou, ACM Transaction on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, Vol.13, No.1, Article No.21 (21:1-21:13), January, 2008.
• Wire Retiming Problem with Net Topology Optimization , Dennis K.Y. Tong, Evangeline F.Y. Young, Chris Chu and Sampath Dechu, IEEE Transactions of Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 26(9):1648-1660, 2007.
• Test Scheduling for BISTed Embedded SRAMs with Data Retention Faults , Qiang Xu, Baosheng Wang, Andre Ivanov and F. Y. Young, IEE Proceedings: Computers and Digital Techniques, Special Issue on ETS'06, Vol.1, pp.256-264, May 2007.
• Area Reduction by Deadspace Utilization on Interconnect Optimized Floorplan , Chiu-Wing Sham and Evangeline F. Y. Young, ACM Transaction on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, 12(1):1-11, 2007.
• Placement Constraints in Floorplan Design , Evangeline F.Y. Young, Chris C.N. Chu and M.L. Ho, IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems, 12(7):745-745, 2004. (executables and data)
• Non-Rectangular Shaping and Sizing of Soft Modules for Floorplan Design Improvement , Chris C.N. Chu and Evangeline F.Y. Young, IEEE Transactions of Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 23(1):71-79, 2004.
• Temporal Logic Replication for Dynamically Reconfigurable FPGA Partitioning , Arthur W.K. Mak and Evangeline F.Y. Young, IEEE Transactions of Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 22(7):952-959, 2003.
• Twin Binary Sequences: A Non-redundant Representation for General Non-slicing Floorplan , Evangeline F.Y. Young, Chris C.N. Chu and Zion Cien Shen, IEEE Transactions of Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 22(4):457-469, 2003.
• Routability Driven Floorplanning with Buffer Block Planning , C.W. Sham and Evangeline F.Y. Young, IEEE Transactions of Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 22(4):470-480, 2003.
• Slicing Floorplan with Clustering Constraint , W.S. Yuen and F.Y. Young, IEEE Transactions of Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 22(5):654-658, 2003.
• Handling Soft Modules in General Nonslicing Floorplan using Lagrangian Relaxation , F.Y. Young, Chris C.N. Chu, W.S. Luk and Y.C. Wong, IEEE Transactions of Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 20(5):687-692, 2001.
• On Extending Slicing Floorplans to Handle L/T-shaped Modules and Abutment Constraints , F.Y. Young, Hannah H. Yang and D.F. Wong, IEEE Transactions of Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 20(6):800-807, 2001.
• Slicing Floorplan with Range Constraints , F.Y. Young, D.F. Wong and Hannah H. Yang, IEEE Transactions of Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 19(2):272-278, 2000.
• Slicing Floorplan with Boundary Constraints , F.Y. Young, D.F. Wong and Hannah H. Yang, IEEE Transactions of Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 18(9), pp.1385-1389, 1999.
• Generation of Universal Series-Parallel Boolean Functions , F.Y. Young, C.N. Chu and D.F. Wong, Journal of the ACM, 46(3), pp.416-435, 1999.
• How Good are Slicing Floorplans , F.Y. Young and D.F. Wong, Integration, the VLSI Journal, Vol.23, pp.61-73, 1997.
• A Chinese Dictionary System Based on Fuzzy Logic and Object-Oriented Approach, K.S. Leung, Y. Fan and F.Y. Young, Computer Processing of Chinese and Oriental Languages - An International Journal of the Chinese Language Computer Society, World Scientific Publishing, Vol.6, No.2, pp.205-219, 1992, Canada.

• Generation of Optimal Obstacle-avoiding Rectilinear Steiner Minimum Tree, Liang Li, Zaichen Qian and Evangeline F.Y. Young, Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, 2009
• Multi-voltage Floorplan Design with Optimal Voltage Assignment , Zaichen Qian and Evangeline F.Y. Young, International Symposium on Physical Design, 2009.
• Analog Placement with Common Centroid and 1-D Symmetry Constraints, Linfu Xiao and Evangeline F.Y. Young, Proceedings IEEE Asia South Pacific Design Automation Conference, 2009. Candidates for Best Paper Award (14 out of 355).
• Obstacle-avoiding Rectilinear Steiner Tree Construction, Liang Li and Evangeline F.Y. Young, Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, 2008.
• Network Flow Based Power Optimization under Timing Constraints in MSV-driven Floorplanning, Qiang Ma and Evangeline F.Y. Young, Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, 2008. (executables and data)
• 3-D Floorplanning using Labeled Tree and Dual Sequences , Renshen Wang, Evangeline F.Y. Young, Yi Zhu, Fan Chung Graham, Ronald Graham and Chung-Kuan Cheng, International Symposium on Physical Design, 2008.
• TCG-based Bus Driven Floorplanning, Tilen Ma and Evangeline F.Y. Young, Proceedings IEEE Asia South Pacific Design Automation Conference, 2008.
• Voltage Island-Driven Floorplanning, Qiang Ma and Evangeline F.Y. Young, Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, 2007. (executables and data)
• Analog Placement with Common Centroid Constraints, Qiang Ma, Evangeline F.Y. Young and K.P. Pun, Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, 2007. ( executables and data - This version handles common centroid, symmetry and other general placement constraints.)
• Post-placement Voltage Island Generation, Royce L.S. Ching, Evangeline F.Y. Young, Kevin C.K. Leung and Chris Chu, Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, 2006.
• Analog Placement with Symmetry and Other Placement Constraints, Yiu-cheong Tam, Evangeline F.Y. Young and Chris Chu, Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, 2006. (executables and data)
• Optimal Cell Flipping in Placement and Floorplanning, Chiu-wing Sham, Evangeline F.Y. Young and Chris Chu, Proceedings ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, 2006.
• Retention-Aware Test Scheduling for BISTed Embedded SRAMs, Qiang Xu, Baosheng Wang and Evangeline F.Y. Young, IEEE European Test Symposium, pp.83-88, 2006.
• Block Alignment in 3D Floorplan using Layered TCG, Jill H.Y. Law, Evangeline F.Y. Young and Royce L.S. Ching, ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, pp.376-380, 2006.
• Shuttle Mask Floorplanning with Modified Alpha-Restricted Grid, Royce L.S. Ching and Evangeline F.Y. Young, ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, pp.85-90, 2006. (executables and data)
• Multi-Bend Bus Driven Floorplanning, Jill H.Y. Law and Evangeline F.Y. Young, International Symposium on Physical Design, pp.113-120, 2005.
• Congestion Prediction in Early Stages, Chiu-wing Sham and Evangeline F.Y. Young, International Workshop on System-Level Interconnect Prediction, pp.91-98, 2005.
• Congestion Prediction in Floorplanning, Chiu-wing Sham and Evangeline F.Y. Young, IEEE Asia South Pacific Design Automation Conference, pp.1107-1110, 2005.
• Multilevel Interconnect-Driven Floorplanning, Evangeline F.Y. Young and Joseph C.S. Lau, Mid-West Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp., 2005.
• Area Reduction on Interconnect Optimized Floorplan using Deadspace Utilization, Chiu-wing Sham and Evangeline F.Y. Young, Mid-West Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp., 2005.
• Performance-Driven Register Insertion in Placement, Dennis K.Y. Tong and Evangeline F.Y. Young, International Symposium on Physical Design, pp.53-60, 2004.
• Retiming with Interconnect and Gate Delay, Chris C.N. Chu, Evangeline F.Y. Young, Dennis K.Y. Tong and Sampath Dechu, Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, pp.221-226, 2003. (executables and data)
• Clustering Based Acyclic Multi-way Partitioning, Eric S.H. Wong, Evangeline F.Y. Young and W.K. Mak, Proceedings of the 13th ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, pp.203-206, 2003.
• A New and Efficient Congestion Evaluation Model in Floorplanning: Wire Density Control with Twin Binary Trees, Steve T.W. Lai, Evangeline F.Y. Young and Chris C.N. Chu, Proceedings of Design, Automation and Test in Europe, 2003.
• Fast Buffer Planning and Congestion Optimization in Interconnect-driven Floorplanning, Keith K.C. Wong and Evangeline F.Y. Young, IEEE Asia South Pacific Design Automation Conference, pp.411-416, 2003.
• Interconnect-Driven Floorplanning by Searching Alternative Packings, Bruce C.W. Sham, Evangeline F.Y. Young and Hai Zhou, IEEE Asia South Pacific Design Automation Conference, pp.417-422, 2003.
• Twin Binary Sequences: A Non-redundant Representation for General Non-slicing Floorplan, Evangeline F.Y. Young, Chris C.N. Chu and Zion Cien Shen, International Symposium on Physical Design, pp.196-201, 2002.
• Routability Driven Floorplanner with Buffer Block Planning, C.W. Sham and Evangeline F.Y. Young, International Symposium on Physical Design, pp.50-55, 2002.
• Temporal Logic Replication for Dynamically Reconfigurable FPGA Partitioning, Wai-Kei Mak and Evangeline F.Y. Young, International Symposium on Physical Design, pp.190-195, 2002.
• Congestion Estimation with Buffer Planning in Floorplan Design, C.W. Sham, W.C. Wong and Evangeline F.Y. Young, Proceedings of Design, Automation and Test in Europe, pp.696-701, 2002.
• Non-rectangular Shaping and Sizing of Soft Modules in Floorplan Design, Chris C.N. Chu and Evangeline F.Y. Young, Proceedings of Design, Automation and Test in Europe, pp.1101, 2002.
• A Unified Method to Handle All Kinds of Placement Constraints in General Non-slicing Floorplan , F.Y. Young, Chris C.N. Chu and M.L. Ho, IEEE Asia South Pacific Design Automation Conference, pp.661-667, 2002. (executables and data)
• Slicing Floorplans with Clustering Constraints , W.S. Yuen and F.Y. Young, IEEE Asia South Pacific Design Automation Conference, pp.503-508, 2001.
• On Extending Slicing Floorplans to Handle L/T-shaped Modules and Abutment Constraints , F.Y. Young, Hannah H. Yang and D.F. Wong, Conference on Chip Design Automation, 16th World Computer Congress, August, 2000, pp.269-276.
• Floorplan Area Minimization using Lagrangian Relaxation , F.Y. Young, Chris C.N. Chu, W.S. Luk and Y.C. Wong, International Symposium on Physical Design, pp.174-179, 2000.
• Integrated Floorplanning and Interconnect Planning , H.M. Chen, H. Zhou, F.Y. Young, D.F. Wong, Hannah H. Yang and Naveed Sherwani, Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, pp.354-357, 1999.
• Slicing Floorplans with Range Constraints , F.Y. Young and D.F. Wong, International Symposium on Physical Design, pp.97-102, 1999.
• Slicing Floorplans with Boundary Constraints , F.Y. Young and D.F. Wong, IEEE Asia South Pacific Design Automation Conference, pp. 17-20, 1999.
• Slicing Floorplans with Pre-placed Modules , F.Y. Young and D.F. Wong, Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, pp.252-258, 1998.
• How Good are Slicing Floorplans? , F.Y. Young and D.F. Wong, International Symposium on Physical Design, pp.144-149, 1997.
• On the Construction of Universal Series-Parallel Functions for Logic Module Design , F.Y. Young and D.F. Wong, IEEE International Conference on Computer Design: VLSI in Computers and Processors, pp.482-488, 1997.
• Parallel implementation of partially connected recurrent network, F.Y. Young and L.W. Chan, IEEE Conference on Neural Networks, Orlando, Vol.4, pp.2058-2063, 1994.
• Chaos in recurrent networks, L.W. Chan and F.Y.Young, International Symposium on Speech, Image Processing and Neural Networks, Hong Kong, Vol.1, pp.225-229, 1994.
• Using recurrent network for time series prediction, Lai wan Chan and F.Y. Young, World Congress on Neural Networks, Portland, Vol.4, pp.332-336, 1993.
• Ring-structured recurrent neural network, Lai wan Chan and F.Y. Young, World Congress on Neural Networks, Portland, Vol.4, pp.328-331, 1993.
• Sequence recognition using recurrent backpropagation network, F.Y. Young and L.W. Chan, Proceedings of The International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Beijing, China, Vol.2, pp.557-562, 1992.

• On the Construction of Universal Series-Parallel Functions for Logic Module Design, F.Y. Young and D.F. Wong, TR-97-13, Department of Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, April 1997.
• Locally connected recurrent networks, L. W. Chan and Evan Fung-Yu YOUNG, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995.