Xiaochun Yu

05/09 - Yu Receives Intel Fellowship

The highly competitive program awards only 40 fellowships annually to Ph.D. candidates at select universities who are doing leading edge work in fields related to Intel's business and research interests... »» more

Yen-Tzu Lin

05/09 - Lin Awarded NVIDIA Fellowship

ECE graduate student Yen-Tzu Lin has received a fellowship from NVIDIA, the world leader in visual computing technologies and the inventor of the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit), a high-performance processor that generates interactive graphics on workstations, personal computers, game consoles, and mobile devices... »» more

Garg and Marculescu

03/09 - ECE graduate student Siddarth Garg and Professor Diana Marculescu have won a Best Paper Award ... »» more

John Cohn02/09 - Alumnus John Cohn Delivers Plenary Talk at ISSCC
"Kids today! Engineers Tomorrow?" ECE alumnus John Cohn (Ph.D. 1991) once again emphasized the importance of reaching out to kids... »» more

Ogras and Singhee02/09 - ECE's Ogras and Singhee win European Best Thesis Awards


ECE graduates Umit Y. Ogras and Amith Singhee have won 2008 Outstanding Dissertation Awards from the European Design Automation Association (EDAA). »» more

Rob A. Rutenbar

01/09 -
Rob Rutenbar Elected ACM Fellow

Rob A. Rutenbar, Jatras Professor of ECE and CS, was elected a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Class of 2008 ...
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Shawn Blanton

12/08 - Shawn Blanton Named IEEE Fellow. ECE Professor Shawn Blanton has been named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for his contributions to the testing of micromechanical systems and integrated circuits. »» more

12/08 - Rutenbar Wins
Alumni Achievement Award from Wayne State

ASPDACECE Professor Rob Rutenbar is a 2008 winner of the Distinguished Engineering Achievement Award. »» more

Wu and Marcculescu

10/08 - Wu, Marculescu Win Best Paper Award at Computer Design Conference. ECE graduate student Kai-Chiang (Alex) Wu and his Ph.D. advisor, associate professor Diana Marculescu, have won a Best Paper Award... »» more

Larry Pileggi09/08 -

Larry Pileggi Wins SRC's Aristotle Award for Outstanding Teaching.
ECE Professor Larry Pileggi has been awarded the prestigious Aristotle Award for 2008 from the Semiconductor Research Corporation.»» more

CSSI 25th

09/08 - CSSI 25+ Anniversary Workshop »» more

The Center for Silicon System Implementation (CSSI) is focused on all aspects of integrated system design and manufacturing that spans from network-on-achip architectures to self-adaptable analog and digital circuits, to ultra low-power nano devices, bio chips, and the CAD methodologies that enable them. Our 18 faculty researchers span several Carnegie Mellon departments that include Electrical & Computer Engineering, Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering.

Currently, the center has over 80 graduate students working in or across various areas that include manufacturing, circuits, systems and other emerging technologies. Founded in 2000, CSSI builds on over 25 years of experience in the electronic design automation industry that began with a sustaining grant from the Semiconductor Research Corporation. Today our research is supported by the U.S. government, various consortiums and industry.

Shawn Blanton, PhD

Shawn Blanton, PhD
Professor of ECE
Director, Center for Silicon System Implementation