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July 29, 2005

Analog Devices Awards Highest Technical Honor to ECE Alumnus

ECE Alumnus Katsu Nakamura (B.S. ‘89; MS. ‘90; Ph.D. ‘94), a senior engineer for Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI), has been named a fellow of the company, their highest technical honor. As a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon, Nakamura was advised by Rick Carley as part of the computer aided design (CAD) research group, now the Center for Silicon System Implementation (CSSI).

July 14, 2005

CSSI Hosts Alumni & Friends Reception at DAC

The Center for Silicon System Implementation (CSSI) hosted its yearly alumni and friends reception at the 42nd annual IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC) on June 14 in Anaheim, CA.

July 11, 2005

ECE Alumnus Tom Martin Wins CAREER Grant

ECE alumnus Tom Martin (Ph.D. 1999; M.S. 1994), an assistant professor of ECE at Virginia Tech, has received a five-year National Science Foundation CAREER grant for $400,000. This is the most prestigious award for creative junior faculty who are likely to become academic leaders of the future.

His CAREER project is ...

June 16, 2005

Marculescu and Varatkar Win IEEE Best Paper Award

Radu Marculescu, Associate Professor of ECE, and alumnus Girish Varatkar (M.S. 2003) won the 2005 Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems (TVLSI) Best Paper Award from the IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) Society. Their paper, "On-Chip Traffic Modeling and Synthesis for MPEG-2 Video Applications, was published in *IEEE Transactions ...

March 14, 2005

Blanton and Dwarakanath Awarded Patent

ECE Professor Shawn Blanton and alumnus Kumar Dwarakanath (Ph.D. 2004) were awarded a patent for their "Method for Characterizing, Generating Test Sequences for, and/or Stimulating Integrated Circuit Faults Using Fault Tuples and Related Systems and Computer Program Products."

Dwarakanath's thesis on the fault ...