Title:	Floorplan Design for Complex VLSI Systems
Date:	June 5, 2006 (Monday)
Time:	2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Venue:	ERB LT, William M.W. Mong Engineering Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T.
Speaker:	Professor Martin D.F. Wong Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign USA

ABSTRACT:

Rapid advances in semiconductor technology have led to a dramatic increase in the complexity of VLSI circuits. For chips with tens or hundreds millions of devices, a hierarchical approach is needed to manage the enormous circuit complexity. Floorplanning tools, which determine the placement of all circuit blocks at each level of the hierarchy, play a crucial role in the divide-and-conquer solution to the layout of a complex chip. In this talk, we survey major results in floorplan design research. Classical results as well as recent advances in the field will be presented.

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.

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 has served on numerous technical program committees of VLSI CAD conferences. He has served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design and IEEE Transactions on Computers, and has served as a Guest Editor of four special issues for IEEE Transactions on CAD. 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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