• Congratulations to two members of the group for recently passing milestones in the Ph.D. track:
  Rasit Topaloglu successfully defended his thesis and filed.
  Chul-Hong Park successfully defended his thesis and filed.

• "Design for manufacturability gears up for 32nm" by Richard Goering. [Full Story]

• SPIE 2008 Plenary Talk [Full Story]

• Congratulations to various members of the group for recently passing milestones in the Ph.D. track:
  Puneet Sharma successfully defended his thesis and filed.
  Chul-Hong Park passed his qualification exam.
  Kambiz Samadi passed his Prelim.

• DATE-2007 DFM tutorial slides

  • DFM Challenges and Practical Solutions in 65nm and 45nm [PDF]


• Congratulations to Rasit Topaloglu for Best Paper award in ISQED 2007!

• ICCAD 2006 Monday Panel

  • Prof. Kahng's "CAD Research, Pay now or Pay later ..." presentation.

• Prof. Andrew Kahng's talks from GSRC06 Annual Review is now online

  • Core Pillar Presentation [PPT]
  • System-Level Living Roadmap Theme Presentation [PPT]

• DAC-2006 DFM tutorial slides

  • Test structures and test chips [PDF]
  • Nano scale realities [PDF]
  • Design optimizations [PDF]
  • What's new in DFM @ DAC-2006 [PDF]

• Debate on Restricted Design Rule (RDR) and DFM at DAC06 [Full Story]

• Congratulations to Xu Xu for successfully defended his thesis and will file this week.

• Congratulations to various members of the group for recently passing milestones in the Ph.D. track:
  Sherief successfully defended his thesis and filed last week.
  Qinke successfully defended his thesis and will file this week.
  Rasit passed his UQE.
  Puneet Sharma passed his UQE.
  Chul-Hong passed his Prelim.

• "Timing Analysis Rounds The Corner To Statistics" by David Maliniak [Full Story] [Local copy]

• "90-, 65-nm yields prey to leakage" by Richard Goering [Full Story] [Local copy]

• "Panelists ponder challenges of 45 nm"[Full Story] [Local copy]

• Congratulations to Xu Xu for 1st place in Best Poster Awardand Best Paper Award in BACUS 2005!

• Congratulations to Bao Liu and Qinke Wang for Best Paper award in ICCD 2005!

• "The X initiative model: Collaborative resolution of 'shared red bricks' in ITRS" by A. Fujimura and A. B. Kahng [Full Story] [Local copy]

• Congratulations to Xu Xu for passing his qualification exam!

• Congratulations to Qinke Wang for passing his qualification exam!

• Rocks Team Helps Win ISPD2005 Placement Contest by Providing Last-Minute Compute Power. [Full Story] [Local copy]

• APlace was the winner of ISPD2005 Placement Contest. [Full Story] [Local copy]

• The Match Twice and Stitch TSP heuristic published in Operations Research Letters Nov 2004 issue is currently the hottest article on Science Direct. [Local copy]

• Blurb on PhoneShare in MIT's Technology Review magazine (Oct 2004 issue, page 17). [Local copy]

• Congratulations to Yuhong Zheng for filing her M.S. thesis!

• Pursuing Excellence in DFM at UCSD: An Interview with Dr. Andrew Kahng, by Peggy Aycinena [Full Story] [Local Copy]

• Some EETimes articles on the ICCAD 2003 tutorial:

• Researchers float design-for-manufacturing strategy, Nov. 13, 2003 [Full Story]
• Statistical timing steps into spotlight at ICCAD, Nov. 17, 2003 [Full Story]
• Statistical static timing analysis ensures IC performance, Dec. 22, 2003 [Full Story]

• X-based routing broadens reach with fab move. [Full Story]

• Congratulations to Puneet Gupta and Swamy V. Muddu for completion of their M.S. degrees at UCSD!

• Manufacturing Aware Physical Design: ICCAD Embedded Tutorial Slides. [Slides]

• Congratulations to Dr.Stefanus Mantik for filing his Ph.D. dissertation at UCLA!

• Posters for GSRC Annual Symposium are available. [Full Story]

• 41st Design Automation Conference (DAC) Executive Committee Named. [Full Story]

• DNA array design software released! The implemented algorithms are described in papers #141 and #159, available on the conference publications page.The code can be downloaded here.

• Urgent call made for process tie-in. [Full Story]

• Kahng calls for EDA, design, mask shops to talk. [Full Story]

• Congratulations to Dr. Yu Chen for filing his dissertation (at UCLA).

• Congratulations to Dr. Mike Oliver for filing his dissertation (at UCLA).

• ASPDAC-2003 Tutorial: Physical Chip Implementation: Hot Spots and Best Practices SLIDES (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)

• Congratulations to Dr. Bao Liu for filing his dissertation.