Presidential Young Investigator Award:  Computer-Aided      Design (CAD) Algorithms
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Dr. De Micheli is studying computer-aided-design (CAD) algorithms               and their implementation in a design system environment.  His                   long-term goal is a hardware synthesis system that can transform                automatically a procedural description of a hardware design into                a geometric description of a VLSI chip suitable for fabrication.                                                                                                He plans to extend previous research on logic synthesis to                      structural synthesis.  This involves the automation of specific                 decisions that a hardware architect has to take in order to cast                an abstract behavior of a digital system into an interconnection                of units performing the given task.  The main issue to be                       addressed here is that of architectural partitioning--deciding on               tradeoffs in the coarse grain parallelism.  Secondly, he will                   investigate circuit synthesis for fast VLSI digital computation                 units.  He seeks specialized synthesis techniques, as well as                   circuit optimization methods at electrical and geometric levels                 of representation.  The goal is to synthesize automatically                     circuits with minimal computation delay, given limitations of                   circuit area and power.
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{'Code': '4710', 'Text': 'DES AUTO FOR MICRO & NANO SYS'}
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