October 25, 2007
ECE Ph.D. student Amith Singhee and Rob Rutenbar, Professor of ECE and CS, are winners of the 2007 Best Paper Award at the Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) conference. Their paper, "Statistical Blockade: A Novel Method for Very Fast Monte Carlo Simulation of Rare Circuit Events and its Application," discusses how to dramatically accelerate the analysis of statistical reliability in very complex memory circuits.
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Singhee and Rutenbar are the winners of the 2007 DATE conference Best Papwer Award