Books


Computer-Aided Design
  1. Xin Li, Jiayong Le and Lawrence Pileggi, Statistical Performance Modeling and Optimization, ISBN 978-1601980564, Now Publishers, 2007.

Book Chapters

Supervised students are delineated with an asterisk (*).

Neural Signal Processing
  1. Stephen Foldes, Wei Wang, Jennifer Collinger, Xin Li, Jinyin Zhang*, Gustavo Sudre, Anto Bagic, and Douglas Weber, "Accessing and processing MEG signals in real-time: emerging applications and enabling technologies," Magnetoencephalography, ISBN 978-953-307-255-5, InTech, 2011.

Review Articles


Integrated Circuit Design
  1. Benton Calhoun, Yu Cao, Xin Li, Ken Mai, Lawrence Pileggi, Rob Rutenbar and Kenneth Shepard, "Digital circuit design challenges and opportunities in the era of nanoscale CMOS," Proceedings of The IEEE (PTI), vol. 96, no. 2, pp. 343-365, Feb. 2008.

Journal Papers

Supervised students are delineated with an asterisk (*).

Neural Signal Processing
  1. Jinyin Zhang*, Gustavo Sudre, Xin Li, Wei Wang, Douglas Weber and Anto Bagic, "Clustering linear discriminant analysis for magnetoencephalography-based brain computer interfaces," IEEE Trans. Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering (TNSRE), vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 221-231, Jun. 2011.
  2. Chenlei Guo*, Xin Li, Samu Taulu, Wei Wang and Douglas Weber, "Real-time robust signal space separation for magnetoencephalography," IEEE Trans. Biomedical Engineering (TBME), vol. 57, no. 8, pp. 1856-1866, Aug. 2010.
Computer-Aided Design
  1. Wangyang Zhang*, Xin Li, Frank Liu, Emrah Acar, Rob Rutenbar and Ronald Blanton, "Virtual probe: a statistical framework for low-cost silicon characterization of nanoscale integrated circuits," IEEE Trans. on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), vol. 30, no. 12, pp. 1814-1827, Dec. 2011.
  2. Xin Li, "Finding deterministic solution from underdetermined equation: large-scale performance modeling of analog/RF circuits," IEEE Trans. on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), vol. 29, no. 11, pp. 1661-1668, Nov. 2010.
  3. Yang Xu, Kan-Lin Hsiung, Xin Li, Lawrence Pileggi and Stephen Boyd, "Regular analog/RF integrated circuits design using optimization with recourse including ellipsoidal uncertainty," IEEE Trans. on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 623-637, May. 2009.
  4. Xin Li, Jiayong Le, Mustafa Celik and Lawrence Pileggi, "Defining statistical timing sensitivity for logic circuits with large-scale process and environmental variations," IEEE Trans. on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), vol. 27, no. 6, pp. 1041-1054, Jun. 2008.
  5. Xin Li, Yaping Zhang and Lawrence Pileggi, "Quadratic statistical MAX approximation for parametric yield estimation of analog/RF integrated circuits," IEEE Trans. on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 831-843, May. 2008.
  6. Xin Li, Padmini Gopalakrishnan, Yang Xu and Lawrence Pileggi, "Robust analog/RF circuit design with projection-based performance modeling," IEEE Trans. on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 2-15, Jan. 2007.
  7. Xin Li, Jiayong Le, Padmini Gopalakrishnan and Lawrence Pileggi, "Asymptotic probability extraction for nonnormal performance distributions," IEEE Trans. on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 16-37, Jan. 2007. (Top 10 Articles of IEEE Trans. CAD Downloaded in 2008)
  8. Xin Li, Xuan Zeng, Dian Zhou and Xieting Ling, "Behavioral modeling for analog system-level simulation by wavelet collocation method," IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems - II (TCAS-II), vol. 50, no. 6, pp. 299-314, Jun. 2003.
  9. Xin Li, Bo Hu, Xieting Ling and Xuan Zeng, "A wavelet balance approach for steady-state analysis of nonlinear circuits," IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems - I (TCAS-I), vol. 49, no. 5, pp. 689-694, May. 2002.

Conference Papers

Supervised students are delineated with an asterisk (*).

Neural Signal Processing
  1. Jinyin Zhang*, Gustavo Sudre, Xin Li, Wei Wang, Douglas Weber and Anto Bagic, "Task-related MEG source localization via discriminant analysis," Annual International Conference of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), pp. 2351-2354, 2011.
Computer-Aided Design
  1. Wangyang Zhang*, Karthik Balakrishnan, Xin Li, Duane Boning and Rob Rutenbar, "Toward efficient spatial variation decomposition via sparse regression," IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), pp. 162-169, 2011.
  2. Matthias Althoff, Akshay Rajhans, Bruce Krogh, Soner Yaldiz, Xin Li and Lawrence Pileggi, "Formal verification of phase-locked loops using reachability analysis and continuization," IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), pp. 659-666, 2011. (Best Paper Award)
  3. Hsiu-Ming Chang, Kwang-Ting Cheng, Wangyang Zhang*, Xin Li and Ken Butler, "Test cost reduction through performance prediction using virtual probe," IEEE International Test Conference (ITC), 2011.
  4. Changdao Dong* and Xin Li, "Efficient SRAM failure rate prediction via Gibbs sampling," IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), pp. 200-205, 2011.
  5. Xin Li, "Rethinking memory redundancy: optimal bit cell repair for maximum-information storage," IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), pp. 316-321, 2011.
  6. Pei Sun*, Xin Li and Ming-Yuan Ting, "Efficient incremental analysis of on-chip power grid via sparse approximation," IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), pp. 676-681, 2011.
  7. Xin Li, "Maximum-information storage system: concept, implementation and application," IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), pp. 39-46, 2010.
  8. Wangyang Zhang*, Xin Li, Emrah Acar, Frank Liu and Rob Rutenbar, "Multi-wafer virtual probe: minimum-cost variation characterization by exploring wafer-to-wafer correlation," IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), pp. 47-54, 2010.
  9. Wangyang Zhang*, Xin Li and Rob Rutenbar, "Bayesian virtual probe: minimizing variation characterization cost for nanoscale IC technologies via Bayesian inference," IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), pp. 262-267, 2010. (Best Paper Award)
  10. Wangyang Zhang*, Tsung-Hao Chen, Ming-Yuan Ting and Xin Li, "Toward efficient large-scale performance modeling of integrated circuits via multi-mode/multi-corner sparse regression," IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), pp. 897-902, 2010.
  11. Xin Li, Rob Rutenbar and Ronald Blanton, "Virtual probe: a statistically optimal framework for minimum-cost silicon characterization of nanoscale integrated circuits," IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), pp. 433-440, 2009.
  12. Xin Li, "Finding deterministic solution from underdetermined equation: large-scale performance modeling by least angle regression," IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), pp. 364-369, 2009.
  13. Hong Zhang, Tsung-Hao Chen, Ming-Yuan Ting and Xin Li, "Efficient design-specific worst-case corner extraction for integrated circuits," IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), pp. 386-389, 2009.
  14. Jian Wang, Soner Yaldiz, Xin Li and Lawrence Pileggi, "SRAM parametric failure analysis," IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), pp. 496-501, 2009.
  15. Soner Yaldiz, Umut Arslan, Xin Li and Larry Pileggi, "Efficient statistical analysis of read timing failures in SRAM circuits," IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), pp. 617-621, 2009.
  16. Xin Li and Hongzhou Liu, "Statistical regression for efficient high-dimensional modeling of analog and mixed-signal performance variations," IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), pp. 38-43, 2008.
  17. Xin Li and Yu Cao, "Projection-based piecewise-linear response surface modeling for strongly nonlinear VLSI performance variations," IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), pp. 108-113, 2008.
  18. Xin Li, Brian Taylor, Yu-Tsun Chen and Lawrence Pileggi, "Adaptive post-silicon tuning for analog circuits: concept, analysis and optimization," IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), pp. 450-457, 2007.
  19. Xin Li and Lawrence Pileggi, "Efficient parametric yield extraction for multiple correlated non-Normal performance distributions of analog/RF circuits," IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), pp. 928-933, 2007.
  20. Jian Wang, Xin Li and Lawrence Pileggi, "Parameterized macromodeling for analog system-level design exploration," IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), pp. 940-943, 2007.
  21. Xin Li, Jiayong Le and Lawrence Pileggi, "Projection-based statistical analysis of full-chip leakage power with non-log-Normal distributions," IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), pp. 103-108, 2006.
  22. Padmini Gopalakrishnan, Xin Li and Lawrence Pileggi, "Architecture-aware FPGA placement using metric embedding," IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), pp. 460-465, 2006. (Best Paper Nomination)
  23. Xin Li, Jian Wang, Lawrence Pileggi, Tun-Shih Chen and Wanju Chiang, "Performance-centering optimization for system-level analog design exploration," IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), pp. 422-429, 2005.
  24. Xin Li, Jiayong Le, Lawrence Pileggi and Andrzej Strojwas, "Projection-based performance modeling for inter/intra-die variations," IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), pp. 721-727, 2005.
  25. Xin Li, Peng Li and Lawrence Pileggi, "Parameterized interconnect order reduction with explicit-and-implicit multi-parameter moment matching for inter/intra-die variations," IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), pp. 806-812, 2005.
  26. Xin Li, Jiayong Le, Mustafa Celik and Lawrence Pileggi, "Defining statistical sensitivity for timing optimization of logic circuits with large-scale process and environmental variations," IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), pp. 844-851, 2005.
  27. Yaping Zhan, Andrzej Strojwas, Xin Li, Lawrence Pileggi, David Newmark and Mahesh Sharma, "Correlation aware statistical timing analysis with non-Gaussian delay distributions," IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), pp. 77-82, 2005.
  28. Yang Xu, Kan-Lin Hsiung, Xin Li, Ivan Nausieda, Stephen Boyd and Lawrence Pileggi, "OPERA: optimization with ellipsoidal uncertainty for robust analog IC design," IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), pp. 632-637, 2005.
  29. Peng Li, Frank Liu, Xin Li, Lawrence Pileggi and Sani Nassif "Modeling interconnect variability using efficient parametric model order reduction," IEEE/ACM Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE), pp. 958-963, 2005.
  30. Xin Li, Jiayong Le, Padmini Gopalakrishnan and Lawrence Pileggi, "Asymptotic probability extraction for non-Normal distributions of circuit performance," IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), pp. 2-9, 2004. (Best Paper Award)
  31. Xin Li, Padmini Gopalakrishnan, Yang Xu and Lawrence Pileggi, "Robust analog/RF circuit design with projection-based posynomial modeling," IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), pp. 855-862, 2004.
  32. Jiayong Le, Xin Li and Lawrence Pileggi, "STAC: statistical timing analysis with correlation," IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), pp. 343-348, 2004.
  33. Xin Li, Yang Xu, Peng Li, Padmini Gopalakrishnan and Lawrence Pileggi, "A frequency relaxation approach for analog/RF system-level simulation," IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), pp. 842-847, 2004.
  34. Peng Li, Xin Li, Yang Xu and Lawrence Pileggi, "A hybrid approach to nonlinear macromodel generation for time-varying analog circuits," IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), pp. 454-461, 2003.
  35. Xin Li, Peng Li, Yang Xu and Lawrence Pileggi, "Analog and RF circuit macromodels for system-level analysis," IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), pp. 478-483, 2003.
  36. Yang Xu, Xin Li, Peng Li and Lawrence Pileggi, "Noise macromodel for radio frequency integrated circuits," IEEE/ACM Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE), pp. 150-155, 2003.
  37. Xin Li, Peng Li, Yang Xu, Robert Dimaggio and Lawrence Pileggi, "A frequency separation macromodel for system-level simulation of RF circuits," IEEE/ACM Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), pp. 891-896, 2003.
  38. Xin Li, Xuan Zeng, Dian Zhou and Xieting Ling, "Wavelet method for high-speed clock tree simulation," IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), vol. 1, pp. 177-180, 2002.
  39. Xin Li, Xuan Zeng, Dian Zhou and Xieting Ling, "Behavioral modeling of analog circuits by wavelet collocation method," IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), pp. 65-69, 2001.
  40. Xin Li, Bo Hu, Xieting Ling and Xuan Zeng, "A wavelet balance approach for steady-state analysis of nonlinear circuits," IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), vol. 2, pp. 73-76, 2001.
Integrated Circuit Design
  1. Soner Yaldiz, Vehbi Calayir, Xin Li, Lawrence Pileggi, Arun Natarajan, Mark Ferriss and Jose Tierno, "Indirect phase noise sensing for self-healing voltage controlled oscillators," IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), 2011.
  2. Lawrence Pileggi, Gokce Keskin, Xin Li, Ken Mai and Jon Proesel, "Mismatch analysis and statistical design at 65nm and below," IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), pp. 9-12, 2008.
  3. Umut Arslan, Mark McCartney, Mudit Bhargava, Xin Li, Ken Mai and Lawrence Pileggi, "Variation-tolerant SRAM sense-amp timing using configurable replica bitlines," IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), pp. 415-418, 2008.
  4. Gokce Keskin, Xin Li and Lawrence Pileggi, "Active on-die suppression of power supply noise," IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), pp. 813-816, 2006.
Signal Processing
  1. Hui Luo, Ruiwen Liu, Xieting Ling, and Xin Li, "The autocorrelation matching method for distributed MIMO communications over unknown FIR channels", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), vol. 4, pp. 2161-2164, 2001.

Patents


Computer-Aided Design
  1. Lawrence Pileggi and Xin Li, "Tunable integrated circuit design for nano-scale technologies," US Patent 7,945,868, May. 2011.
  2. Xin Li, Peng Li and Lawrence Pileggi, "Method for parameterized model order reduction of integrated circuit interconnects,” US Patent 7,908,131, Mar. 2011.
  3. Xin Li and Lawrence Pileggi, "Statistical optimization and design method for analog and digital circuits," US Patent 7,669,150, Feb. 2010.
  4. Xin Li, Yang Xu, Peng Li and Lawrence Pileggi, "Analog and radio frequency (RF) system-level simulation using frequency relaxation," US Patent 7,653,524, Jan. 2010.
  5. Mustafa Celik, Jiayong Le, Lawrence Pileggi and Xin Li, "Defining statistical sensitivity for timing optimization of logic circuits with large-scale process and environmental variations," US Patent 7,487,486, Feb. 2009.
Integrated Circuit Design
  1. Jimmy Zhu, Yi Luo and Xin Li, "Crossbar diode-switched magnetoresistive random access memory system," US Patent 7,826,258, Nov. 2010.