Research Focus

• Predictive Technology Model (PTM): accurate, customizable, and predictive model files for future transistor and intereconnect technologies. These predictive model files are compatible with standard circuit simulators and scalable with a wide range of process variations. Currently PTM provides model files for bulk CMOS until the 22nm node, FinFET (double gate) device, and carbon nanotube device.
• Design for resilience: modeling, simulation, characterization, and resilient design solutions. The goal is to significantly improve the design quality, efficiency, and predictability of nanoscale digital and AMS circuits, with guaranteed tool-to-hardware matching.
• Reconfigurable design: programmable design of AMS circuits to achieve a new platform for fast emulation, prototyping, and design reconfiguration. Such techniques will further enable resilent design of AMS circuits at scaled technology nodes.
• Exploratory design with emerging technologies: early stage design research to help shed light on the enormous process and design opportunities offered by nanoscale and neural-inspired technologies.
• Scaling of passive on-chip devices: fabrication process and design innovations to dramatically reduce the size of on-chip inductors and capacitors, with the objective to enable new design scheme for high-speed digital and analog applications.