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2008
Rutenbar organizes DAC panel on verifying "really complex systems"
June 11, 2008
Rob Rutenbar (CMU) and Andreas Kuehlmann (Cadence Design Labs) organized a panel held at the 45th Design Automation Conference on "Verifying Really Complex Systems: On Earth and Beyond". The theme of the session was to explore the importance, cost, and scope of "verification" as an integral part of disciplines beyond CAD, such as aircraft design, CGI films, and national power grids, Participants from Boeing, NASA, Dreamworks and Washington State University discussed how verification differs across these fields. (Read more...)
Group Alumnus John Cohn Gives ISCAS'08 Keynote
May 21, 2008
Group alumnus John Cohn gave the keynote talk at the 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'08) held May 18-21 in Seattle, Washington. His keynote, "Kids these days--How we can inspire the next generation of Engineers and Scientists" highlighted his passionate efforts over the past 15 years to make engineering fun for nearly 50,000 kids. Video of the talk can be found here.
Cohn is currently Chief Scientist of Design Automation in the IBM Systems and Technology Group in Burlington, Vermont, and also an IBM Fellow. He earned his Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon with an IBM Resident Study Fellowship in 1991.
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Rutenbar and Singhee (right) with 2008 A.G. Milnes Award |
Amith Singhee wins ECE Best Thesis Award
May 19, 2008
Amith Singhee was a co-winner of the 2008 A.G. Milnes Award for best Ph.D. thesis at the ECE graduation ceremonies this weekend. The Milnes award honors the graduating ECE doctoral student "whose thesis work is judged to be of the highest quality and has had a significant impact in the field". The award is named is honor of Emeritus ECE faculty member Arthur Milnes, who presented the award at the ceremony. |
Group members Singhee and Singhal receive CMU diplomas
May 19,2008
Amith Singhee and Sonia Singhal received their diplomas at the CMU ECE graduation ceremonies this weekend. Amith (PhD degree in ECE) is now at IBM T.J. Watson Research Labs in New York. Sonia (ME in ECE) is now with Snyopsys in California. |
Left to right: Amith Singhee, Rob Rutenbar, Sonia Singhal |
Rutenbar speaks at Michigan 50-Year Anniversary
May 9, 2008
ECE faculty Rob A. Rutenbar and Daniel P. Sieworek, along with former ECE faculty member John P. Shen, were featured speakers at the UM CSE@50 Symposium, which celebrated the 50 year anniversary of the founding of the University of Michigan Computer Science department. All three are alumni of the University of Michigan. Rutenbar spoke about synergies between computer science and custom integrated circuits. Siewiorek spoke about experiences ranging from parallel computing to wearable computing. Shen spoke on new opportunities in mobile computing. (Read more...) |
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Singhee, Wang, Calhoun and Rutenbar win Best Paper at 2008 VLSI Conference
January 8, 2008
Amith Singhee (CMU) and Rob A. Rutenbar (CMU), and Jiajing Wang and Benton H. Calhoun (University of Virginia) are winners of the 2008 Best Student Paper Award at the 21st International Conference on VLSI Design. Their paper, "Recursive Statistical Blockade: An Enhanced Technique for Rare Event Simulation with Application to SRAM Circuit Design," extends the team's highly visible work on ultra-fast analysis of memory circuits to handle extremely difficult "rare event" statistics.
2007
Rutenbar speaks at DARPA Reliability Workshop
November 28, 2007
Rob Rutenbar gave an invited talk at the DARPA LIBRA Workshop on Reliable
System Design from Unreliable Components, held in Arlington, VA. He spoke
about the use of methods from risk analysis (Extreme Vaue Theory) to understand
reliability statistics in nanoscale memory circuits.
Rutenbar gives invited keynote at SOC'07
November 8, 2007
Rob Rutenbar gave an invited keynote at the 5th International System
On Chip (SOC) COnference in Newport Beach, CA on Nov 8. His
talk, "From Wall Street to Silicon Valley: Using
the Mathematics of Money and Risk for Fast Statistical IC Design," showed
methods from the computational finance community can be used to accelerate
statistical analysis by orders of magnitude for challenging circuits
in the nanoscale regime. [pdf] |
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Singhee and Rutenbar Win DATE Best Paper Award
October 25, 2007
Amith Singhee and Rob Rutenbar have won the 2007 Best Paper Award at the Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) conference. DATE is Europe's premier conference for IC design tools. 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 scaled memory circuits. ...
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Rutenbar Speaks at Alma Mater
October 10, 2007
Professor Rob Rutenbar delivered the 2007 annual Forest Brammer Memorial
Lecture at Wayne State University on October 3. The lecture series
honors an inspirational former teacher in Wayne State's ECE Department,
where Rutenbar received his undergraduate degree in 1978. Rutenbar
spoke on his current work on speech recognition in silicon. [pdf]
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Rutenbar (right) shakes hands with Wayne State
ECE Dept Head Yang Zhao.
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FCRP Center Directors Rutenbar, Rabaey and Wang speak at NSF Workshop on Nanoelectronics
October 15 2007
FCRP Center Directors Rob Rutenbar (C2S2), Jan Rabaey (GSRC) and Kang Wang (FENA) all spoke at the NSF Workshop on Nanoelectronics, held in Washington, DC this week. Organized by NSF Program Manager Pinaki Mazumder, the workshop brought together researchers from across the nanodevices, nanoelectronics, and nanoCAD disciplines to share ideas for where the field should evolve.
C2S2 Workshop on SRAM Design
Held at MIT
Sept 28, 2007
A C2S2-sponsored workshop on issues in scaled SRAM design, organized
by MIT Prof. Anantha Chandrakasan and CMU Prof. Rob Rutenbar attracted
over 50 attendees to the meeting, held at MIT. Speakers from academia
(UVa, Berkeley, CMU, Purdue and MIT) and industry (AMD, IBM, Intel,
TI, and Xilinx) convened to share ideas about future SRAM architectures
that must work at the most aggressively scaled CMOS nodes. |
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Rutenbar gives invited keynote
at 2007 STARC Forum in Japan
July 6 2007
Rob Rutenbar gave an invited keynote at the 2007 Annual STARC Forum
in Yokohama, Japan on July
6. STARC plays the same role in
Japan as does the Semiconductor
Research Corporation in the
US, i.e., they fund and coordinate
research activities among
Japanese universities. Rutenbar
talked about speech recognition
in silicon research at CMU. Of
note is the fact that this
was first ever talk given
in English at this long-established
meeting forum. [pdf] |
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Rutenbar Wins IEEE-CAS Industrial Pioneer
Award
June 5, 2007
Rutenbar (right) accepting IEEE CAD Industrial Pioneer
Award at 2007 Design Automation Conference. |
Rob Rutenbar received the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Circuits and Systems Society (CASS) Industrial Pioneer Award June 5 at the Design Automation Conference in San Diego. Rutenbar was recognized for his pioneering contributions in developing academic and industrial research tools for commercial applications.
Following a decade of work, Rutenbar's research contributed to the development of electronic design automation tools for structural, parametric and layout synthesis of analog/mixed integrated circuits, which are widely used in the semiconductor industry. Analog circuits connect digital computing chips with signals from the outside world and are critical in applications ranging from high definition televisions to cell phones.
With ECE colleague L. Richard Carley, Rutenbar co-founded Neolinear, Inc. in 1977 to commercialize his work. The Pittsburgh start-up was acquired in 2004 by Cadence Design.
"I'm particularly gratified at this recognition by the IEEE, as our
technology is now built into the Cadence analog design flow, making it available
and familiar to worldwide users," Rutenbar said. "I believe the
analog community has seen significant advances based on our work." ...
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Rutenbar gives keynote talk
at ASPDAC07
January 9, 2007
Rob Rutenbar gave they keynote talk at the 2007 Asia South Pacific
Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC) in Yokohama, Japan. His talk,
entitled "Next-Generation Design and EDA Challenges: Small
Physics, Big Systems, Tall Toolchains" focused on challenges
in devices, circuits, systems, and tools, as we continue to scale
CMOS. ... read
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Rob Rutenbar (left) with ASPDAC Chair
Hidetoshi
Onodera of the University of Kyoto
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2006
High-Speed Speech Calls for Hardware
September 26, 2006
The CMU In Silico Vox speech recognition in silicon project was featured
in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette newspaper today, in conjunction with the
2006 InterSpeech conference held in Pittsburgh this week. ...
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Group Alum Jon Cohn Named IBM Fellow
June 24 2006
Group alumnus John Cohn named IBM Fellow. |
Rutenbar Group alum John Cohn (Ph.D. 1991) has been named an IBM Fellow, one of eight granted the company's highest technical honor this year. Cohn is a distinguished engineer and chief scientist of design automation in the IBM Systems and Technology Group in Burlington, Vermont. He was recognized as IBM's premier technical leader in electronic design automation (EDA) technology and for his innovation in the design of microprocessors, system-on-a-chip solutions and technology enablement services. The award also noted Cohn's efforts in education outreach, reaching schoolchildren in Vermont and across the nation.
CMU announcement
IBM announcement
ECE Faculty Among Most Cited in IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design
June 19, 2006
Several ECE faculty members are authors of the most cited papers since
1990 in the IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits
and Systems. ECE professors on the recently released list include: Rick
Carley, Edmund Clarke, Diana Marculescu, Radu Marculescu, Larry Pileggi
(formerly Pillage), Ronald Rohrer, and Rob Rutenbar. ...
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2005
Rutenbar and Tiwary Nominated
for DAC Best Paper Award
June 27, 2005
Rob A. Rutenbar and his Ph.D. student Saurabh Tiwary were nominated
for Best Paper at the ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC)
held from June 13-17. Their paper, "Scalable Trajectory Methods
for On-Demand Macromodel Extraction," allows efficient, accurate
simulation models of complex analog circuits to be constructed automatically
during circuit simulation. DAC 2005 had approximately 6000 attendees,
and is one of the most prestigious conferences in the area of design
tools for integrated circuits. PDF
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Saurabh Tiwary
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 CMU Speech-Recognition Research Featured in The Economist
March 14 2005
Rob Rutenbar is featured in the March 2005 edition of The Economist's Technology Quarterly. His team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon and the University of California at Berkeley is working to design a radically new silicon chip architecture targeted at speech recognition. The goal is to do recognition 100 to 1,000 times more efficiently than a conventional computer. PDF
The team was recently awarded a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop this chip, which could have applications to homeland security. This work is also supported by the U.S. semiconductor community and the Department of Defense (DARPA) under the auspices of the national MARCO Focus Center for Circuit and System Solutions (C2S2), a consortium of U.S. universities for which Rutenbar is the director.
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2004
- Rutenbar Interviewed on "BioTech Today" for WorldTalkRadio ...
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- Rutenbar and Carley Presented With SRC Technical aristor Award ...
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- 2004 SRC Technical Excellence Award ...
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- Carnegie Mellon Engineering Researchers To Create Speech Recognition
in Silicon ...
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- Speech recognition 'on a chip' in three years – (The
Register)
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- Speech recognition in silicon – (Slashdot.org) ...
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- Rutenbar
Delivers Semiconductor Keynote at ITRS ... read
more
- My students Zhong Xiu, James Ma, Suzanne Fowler, Nominated for
Best Paper at DAC04 ... read
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- ECE Technology
Drives Purchase of Analog Software Vendor Neolinear ... read
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- Cadence to Acquire CMU Startup Neolinear Inc ... read
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- C2S2 Review
Connects Universities with Government & Industry ... read
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2003
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- My students Claire Fang and Smriti Gupta and win Best Paper Awards
at SRC TECHCON’03 ... read
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- My student Claire Fang nominated for Best Paper
Award at DAC03.
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2002
- Rutenbar
Awarded University of Michigan EE Alumni Society Merit Award ... read
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- Change name, same link: Rutenbar wins 2002 ECE Teaching Award ... read
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- Rutenbar wins 2001 SRC Aristotle Award for Education ... read
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- Rutenbar
Awarded Jatras (E’47) Chair and Aristotle Award ... read
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- Optimizer
called missing analog synthesis link -- (PlanetAnalog)
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- Fate
of Moore's Law tops ISSCC agenda -- (EETimes) ... read
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2001
- Panel
debates value of mixed-signal design tools -- (PlanetAnalog)
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more
- Another
look at analog top-down design -- (PlanetAnalog)
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more
- Suddenly, Synthesis Gets Interesting --
(PlanetAnalog Editorial) ... read
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- Rutenbar
Contributes to Engineering Design Book ... read
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- Rutenbar
Directs New $19.4 Million Multi-University Research Consortium ... read
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2000 and earlier
- "Shoot
me first" -- (PlanetAnalog,
2000)
... read
more
- Analog
designers glum on tool availability -- (PlanetAnalog,
2000) ... read
more
- Who
loves ya, baby? -- (PlanetAnalog, 2000) ... read
more
- Call
goes out for physical design breakthroughs -- (EETimes,
2000 )
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more
- Synthesis
proves to be Holy Grail for analog EDA -- (PlanetAnalog,
1999) ... read
more
- Cell-builder
tool anticipates analog synthesis -- (EETimes, 1998)
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