Rob Rutenbar
Jatras Professor – ECE; Professor – CS; Director – C2S2
Carnegie Mellon, 1984 –
| Contact Information | |
|---|---|
| Department | Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| Office | D208 Hamerschlag Hall |
| Telephone | (412)-268-3334 |
| Fax | (412)-268-2859 |
| rutenbar@ece.cmu.edu | |
| Website | http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~rutenbar/ |
| Assistant | Judy Bandola |
Research Interests
Custom Analog Circuit CAD
A majority of the new application-specific integrated circuits (ICs) designed today require a core of custom analog circuitry for data acquisition, interfacing with the outside world, wireless cellular links, signal processing, and speech or vision front-end processing. The continuing lack of automatic circuit synthesis and layout tools for these applications remains a huge bottleneck. This research involves work on numerical algorithms to translate specifications into circuits, on optimization algorithms to improve the performance and manufacturability of these circuits, and on combinatorial algorithms to translate these circuits into final integrated circuit mask geometry.
High-Performance Digital ICs and CAD
This work focuses on high-performance digital ICs, where it is necessary to handle both large problems and subtle electrical interactions. Projects include digital clock-tree routing and sizing for high-speed designs; timing-driven layout tools for field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), wherein both the logic and the pattern of wiring connections are programmable by the user; and leaf-cell synthesis for random logic in custom designs, such as microprocessors. Work here involves a mix of combinatorial algorithms and electrical circuit verification algorithms.
In the News
- ECE alumnus gives ISCAS 2008 keynote talk
- ECE Faculty Speak at Michigan 50-year Anniversary
- Singhee and Rutenbar Win 2008 VLSI Best Paper Award
- Rutenbar Speaks at Alma Mater
- Singhee and Rutenbar Win DATE Best Paper Award
- ECE Faculty Win Awards at DAC
- ECE Professor Rob Rutenbar Wins IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Industrial Pioneer Award
- Consortium Connects Universities with Government & Industry
- High-speed speech calls for hardware
- ECE Alumnus Named IBM Fellow
- ECE Faculty Among Most Cited in IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design
- Carnegie Mellon Hosts C2S2 Annual Review
- Rutenbar and Tiwary Nominated for DAC Best Paper Award
- Rob Rutenbar's Speech-Recognition Research Featured in The Economist
- Rutenbar Interviewed on "BioTech Today"
- Rutenbar and Carley Presented With SRC Technical Excellence Award
- Rutenbar Delivers Semiconductor Keynote at ITRS
- CSSI Participates in DAC; Hosts Alumni & Friends Reception
- ECE Technology Drives Purchase of Analog Software Vendor Neolinear
- C2S2 Review Connects Universities with Government & Industry
- Rutenbar Awarded University of Michigan EE Alumni Society Merit Award
- Leaders of NeoLinear and TimeSys Named Emerging Entrepreneurs of the Year
- ECE Graduates Honored in Diploma Ceremony
- Rutenbar Awarded Jatras (E47) Chair and Aristotle Award
- Rutenbar Contributes to Engineering Design Book
- Rutenbar Directs New $19.4 Million Multi-University Research Consortium
- Rutenbar Receives Jatras (E47) Chair and Aristotle Award
- Sixth Annual TECHNON Conference Awards
- EE Times Article Cites Rutenbar
Research Area
Circuits/CAD/VLSI
Keywords
VLSI CAD, algorithms, analog and digital circuits, automatic speech recognition
Education
PhD, 1984
Computer Engineering
University of Michigan
MS, 1979
Computer Engineering
University of Michigan
BS, 1978
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Wayne State University