Interconnect Dominated Design and Analysis Chung-Kuan Cheng CSE Department UC San Diego ckcheng@ucsd.edu
Research Scope Packaging architecture Replace current backplane, board, substrates SPICE_Diego + Thermal, Mechanical Simulation Heart Beat Aids
Research Results Architecture Designs, Hardware Systems, Software Packages Quality of Patents Technical Books Journal Papers, Conference Papers
Research Process Why What Where How
Research Subjects Scalable System: Power, Delay, Cost, Reliability A Analysis: Spice, Power, Clock, Variations (STA) B BioEng: EKG, Signal Network C Interconnect Networks: Packaging, Interconnect, Networks D Data path: Adders, Shifters, CMDL
A Analysis Spice: Parallel Computing, Operator Splitting Power Clock Analysis in t and s domains, Natural Frequency (G+jwC)-1 Synthesis of networks and decap. Clock Analysis and synthesis of mesh and tree Variations: Stochastic Process, Monte Carlo Altera, Fastrack, Fujitsu, Qualcomm, Synopsys Rui, Vincent, Ling, Wanping, Renshen
B BioEng EKG: Probe, Measurement, Algorithm Signal Networks Yi, Wanping
C Interconnect Networks Packaging 3D Floorplanning, Pin Breakaway, Signal Integrity Interconnect Passive Wire Technologies Networks Hierarchy, Topology, Performance ADS, HFSS, EIP, PowerSpice, Sigrity Yuanfang, Haikun, Yi, Renshen
D Data Paths Shifters Adders: Ling’s adder, High Radix Differential Circuit Style Haikun, Yi, Ling, Renshen
Process Research as the highest priority (Call me anytime) Follow-up and go through the exploration (Don’t drop the ball) Plan ahead (Schedule, Proactive) Utilize the team (Establish Personal Networks)
Group Presentation Statement of the problem Previous Schedule Progress Report Weekly and Monthly Schedule
Presentations Main theme of the talk Key point of each page Practice Audio tape recording Questions and Answers Problems behind the questions