Review Articles


Computer-Aided Design
  1. Xin Li, Jiayong Le and Lawrence Pileggi, "Statistical performance modeling and optimization," Foundations and Trends in Electronic Design Automation (FnTEDA), vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 331-480, Oct. 2006.
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


Computer-Aided Design
  1. 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.
  2. Xin Li, Yaping Zhang, 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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


Computer-Aided Design
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Xin Li, Brian Taylor, YuTsun 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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)
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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)
  16. 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.
  17. Jiayong Le, Xin Li and Lawrence Pileggi, "STAC: statistical timing analysis with correlation," IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), pp. 343-348, 2004.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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. 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. Xin Li, Peng Li and Lawrence Pileggi, "Method for parameterized model order reduction of integrated circuit interconnects," US Utility Patent Filed, Oct. 2006.
  2. Xin Li and Lawrence Pileggi, "Statistical optimization and design method for analog and digital circuits," US Utility Patent Filed, Oct. 2005.
  3. Xin Li, Yang Xu, Peng Li and Lawrence Pileggi, "Analog and radio frequency (RF) system-level simulation using frequency relaxation," US Utility Patent Filed, Aug. 2005.
  4. 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 Utility Patent Filed, Jun. 2005.

Integrated Circuit Design

  1. Gokce Keskin, Xin Li and Lawrence Pileggi, "Active resistors for reduction of transient power grid noise," US Utility Patent Filed, Jul. 2005.