ALCom Lab focuses on developing key techniques to advance the efficiency and quality of system design. Theoretical and experimental approaches are both taken. Among the broad interests, three main themes are particularly covered:
Verification
Ensuring design correctness is crucial in all hardware and software designs. In fact, verification is the most time-consuming part of modern system design. Some recent statistics show verification may take up to 60~80% of the total design time and may require a 3-to-1 ratio between verification engineers and circuit designers. Therefore, developing effective verification techniques has great impact on system design. Sample topics include sequential equivalence checking, property checking, arithmetic circuit verification, etc.
Optimization
As IC manufacturing process advances, design paradigms shift. Under stringent design criteria, exploiting optimal solutions in various abstraction levels is desperately needed. Sample topics include language equation solving for digital circuit optimization, statistical analysis and optimization for VLSI manufacturability, etc.
Foundations
Tomorrow's important technology breakthroughs stems from today's basic research. It is interesting to explore what we can build from emerging novel technologies. Sample topics include quantum computation models, heterogeneous system modeling, etc.
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