1. International Center on Design-for- Nanotechnologies (IC-DFN) Jason Cong University of California, Los Angeles Email: cong@cs.ucla.edu cong@cs.ucla.edu (Other participants are listed inside)

2. IC-SOC Overview (2000-2006) u u Project Summary  Develop new design methodology to enable efficient giga-scale integration for system-on-a-chip (SOC) designs  Project includes three major components SOC synthesis tools and methodologies SOC synthesis tools and methodologies SOC verification, test, and diagnosis SOC verification, test, and diagnosis SOC design driver SOC design driver u Research Team  US UCLA: Jason Cong, UCLA: Jason Cong, UC Santa Barbara: Tim Cheng UC Santa Barbara: Tim Cheng  China Tsinghua Univ.: Jinian Bian, Xianlong Hong, Zeyi Wang, Hongxi Xue Tsinghua Univ.: Jinian Bian, Xianlong Hong, Zeyi Wang, Hongxi Xue Peking Univ.: Xu Cheng Peking Univ.: Xu Cheng Zhejiang Univ.: Xiaolang Yan Zhejiang Univ.: Xiaolang Yan Also include 10 faculty members from NTHU and NCTU in Taiwan Also include 10 faculty members from NTHU and NCTU in Taiwan [Courtesy of Philips] ACCESS CTL. MIPS MPEG VLIW VIDEO MSP TM-xxxx D$ I$ TriMedia CPU DEVICE IP BLOCK...... DVP SYSTEM SILICON DEVICE IP BLOCK PRxxxx D$ I$ MIPS CPU DEVICE IP BLOCK...... PI BUS SDRAM MMI DVP MEMORY BUS PI BUS TriMedi a ™ MIPS ™

3. IC-SOC Project Outcome (2000-2006) u Over 100 publications at major international conferences and journals u Education (as of 2006) u International exchanges  15 workshops in US and China (including Taiwan) since 2000  Around 100 attendees each year u One of top-10 US/China collaboration project selected by NSF to highlight in 2005

4. Photo from 2003 Workshop in Kunming, China

5. IC-DFN Overview (2006 – Present) u A follow-up project of IC-SOC u Explore architecture and design issues associated with nanotechnologies u Project focuses  Error-resilient architecture design  Highly scalable design tools  Systems-level integration

6. IC-DFN Organization

7. Acknowledgements u Strong supports from  National Science Foundation  Chinese National Science Foundation  National Science Council u Great collaboration from UCLA UCLA UCSB UCSB Peking Univ. Peking Univ. Tsinghua Univ. Tsinghua Univ. Zhejiang Univ. Zhejiang Univ. National Tsinghua Univ. National Tsinghua Univ. National Taiwan Univ. National Taiwan Univ.