Title:	Recent Results in Low Power Research
Date:	January 23, 2006 (Monday)
Time:	2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Venue:	Room 121, 1/F, Ho Sin-hang Engineering Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T.
Speaker:	Prof. Martin D. F. Wong Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign USA

ABSTRACT:

High Power consumption not only leads to short battery life for hand-held devices, but also causes on-chip thermal and reliability problems in general. At 90nm technology node, the vast amount of functionality integrated within a single chip, compound with much larger leakage current, is already leading to designs with power dissipations in the hundreds of Watts. Process technology is trending towards higher power dissipation, so this problem is expected to only get worse at future technology nodes. In this talk, we present computer-aided design (CAD) techniques for low power design. We focus on our recent contributions in the following areas: 1) voltage islands generation, 2) power grid analysis, and 3) leakage power minimization.

BIOGRAPHY:

Martin D.F. Wong received the B.Sc. degree in mathematics from the University of Toronto and the M.S. degree in mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He obtained the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1987.

Dr. Wong is currently Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Before he joined UIUC, he was a Bruton Centennial Professor of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin). Dr. Wong's research interests are computer-aided design (CAD) of very large scaled integrated circuits (VLSI), design and analysis of algorithms, and combinatorial optimization. He has published 300 technical papers and has graduated 32 Ph.D. students. He is a coauthor of "Simulated Annealing for VLSI Design" (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988) and two invited articles in the Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (1999).

Dr. Wong received the 2000 IEEE CAD Transactions Best Paper Award for his work on interconnect optimization. He also received best paper awards at DAC-86 and ICCD-95 for his work on floorplan design and routing, respectively. His ICCAD-94 paper on circuit partitioning has been included in the book "The Best of ICCAD - 20 Years of Excellence in Computer Aided Design" published in 2003.

Dr. Wong was the General Chair of the 1999 ACM International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD-99) and was the Technical Program Chair of the same conference in 1998 (ISPD-98). He is on the Steering Committee of ISPD (2001-2005). He also regularly serves on the technical program committees of many other VLSI conferences (e.g., DAC, ICCAD, ISPD, DATE, ASPDAC, ISCAS, FPGA, SASIMI, GLS-VLSI, SSMSD). Dr. Wong has served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design (2002-2005) and IEEE Transactions on Computers (1995-2000). He has also served as a Guest Editor of four special issues for IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design. He is currently on the Editorial Board of ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems. Dr. Wong is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer. He is a Fellow of IEEE.

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