[VLSI Computation Lab]



The VLSI Computation Laboratory (VCL) is part of the ECE Department at the University of California at Davis. Our goal is to discover and develop novel contributions in high-performance and energy-efficient VLSI computation, with an emphasis on digital signal processing (DSP) workloads.

People of the VCL


Faculty
Professor Bevan Baas

Graduate students

Tinoosh Mohsenin
Ph.D. Student
  • LDPC architectures
  • Architectural design
  • Array architecture mappings

Dean Truong
Ph.D. Student
  • Architectures
  • High speed chip design
  • AsAP 2.0 physical design

Zhibin Xiao
Ph.D. Student
  • Architectures
  • Video and multimedia applications
  • System design

Anh Tran
Ph.D. Student
  • On-chip interconnects
  • Multi-core architectures
  • VLSI DSP implementation

Bin Liu
Ph.D. Student
  • VLSI design
  • Processor architecture
  • DSP applications

Aaron Stillmaker
Ph.D. Student
  • Processor architecture
  • DSP applications
  • VLSI design

Jon Pimentel
Ph.D. Student
  • Many-core processor characterization
  • VLSI PVT characterization
  • Measurement automation
 

Jeremy Webb
MS Student
  • High-speed board design
  • System interfacing
  • System integration

Christine Watnik
MS Student
  • DSP C compiler backend
  • Viterbi accelerator
  • AsAP code scheduler

Stephen Le
MS Student
  • Parallel H.264 application development
  • High-speed parallel simulator
  • Tool integration

Lucas Stillmaker
MS Student
  • DSP application development
  • Tool integration
  • Hardware measurement and characterization

Trevin Murakami
MS Student
  • Hardware design
  • VLSI circuits
  • Digital signal processing hardware

Jeff Collins
MS Student
  • High-speed board design
  • H.264 application
  • Video processing hardware
 
Other graduate researchers:
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Undergraduate Researchers

Layne Miao
  • AsAP2 board bring up
  • System characterization

Brian Zimmer
  • MP3 decoder reference design
  • MP3 decoder implementation
 
Alumni

Prof. Zhiyi Yu
Ph.D. ECE, Oct. 2007
Associate Professor
Fudan University

  • Network on chip
  • GALS clocking
  • AsAP 1.0 physical design
 

Ryan Apperson
MS ECE, Sept. 2004
IC Design Engineer
Boston Scientific, CRM Division

  • Asynchronous data interfacing circuits
  • SRAM design
  • Full-custom CMOS layout

Omar Sattari
MS ECE, Sept. 2004
Software Engineer
CornerTurn

  • Address generation and branching
  • CAD environment
  • Programming assembler, config
  • FFT algorithm mapping

Mike Lai
MS ECE, Sept. 2004
Design Engineer
Altera

  • High-speed pipelined signed multiplier
  • High-speed modular signed adder
  • Full-custom CMOS layout

Mike Meeuwsen
MS ECE, April 2005
Hardware Engineer
Intel, Digital Enterprise Group

  • 802.11a algorithm mapping
  • Architectural enhancements
  • Instruction set design

Toney Jacobson
MS ECE, July 2007
Law Student
University of California, Berkeley

  • Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) architectures
  • Digital system design
  • High-speed FPGA design

Eric Work
MS ECE, Sept. 2007
Software Engineer
S-Machines

  • Arbitrary task to 2D mesh mapping
  • Software tool flow
  • CAD tools

Wayne Cheng
MS ECE, January 2008
ASIC Design Engineer
Uniquify
  • Dynamic voltage supply circuits
  • Dynamic voltage and frequency circuits
  • Transistor-level power simulations

Gouri Landge
MS ECE, December 2009
Intel, Digital Home Group
  • Video motion estimation architectures
  • VLSI 65 nm motion estimation accelerator
  • Programmable video processing hardware
 
Undergraduate Researchers

Henna Huang
BS ECE, June 2009
  • Parallel H.264 application development
  • Multi-processor characterization
  • Tool development

Gary Chung
BS ECE, August 2009
Apple Computer
  • Embedded processor code development
  • File system design and implementation
  • Config design of 334-processor system
  • Kyle Piper,   BS ECE, June 2007
  • Chi Chen,   BS ECE, June 2006
  • Sam Lee,   BS ECE, June 2006
  • Daniel Gurman,   BS ECE, June 2006
  • Bassem Saad,   BS ECE, June 2006
  • Leo Chan,   BS ECE, June 2006
  • Jason Cheung,   BS CS, June 2005
  • Tomoko Tsuruta,   BS ECE, June 2005
  • William Au Yeung,   BS ECE, June 2005

Current Research


Sponsors of Our Work

Miscellaneous

Publications

In The News

Projects for Interested Graduate Students

Downloadable CAD Tools Developed in the VCL

VCL-Specific Material


Other CAD Tools We Use

Other Useful Links

Informative References

A few group pictures

[Some VCL students]
Group lunch celebrating end of Spring quarter; June 10, 2009.


[Some VCL students]
Dean and Anh in office-lab; January 25, 2009.


[Some VCL students]
Dean, Zhibin and Paul in office-lab; March 27, 2008.


[Some VCL students]
Zhibin, Dean, Anh, Tinoosh, and Paul working on AsAP2 bringup; October 12, 2007.


[Some VCL students]
Tinoosh, Dean, and Zhibin working on AsAP2 bringup; October 11, 2007.


[Some VCL students]
Dean, Zhibin, Anh, Tinoosh, Paul, and Bevan at ECE Grad Student BBQ in Kemper courtyard; October 4, 2007.


[Some VCL students]
Toney, Wayne, Zhibin, Anh, Zhiyi, Tinoosh, Paul, Dean, and Bevan celebrating Toney's and Wayne's graduations at Woodstock's; August 29, 2007.


[Some VCL students]
Tinoosh, Dean, Christine, Wayne, and Zhiyi in Kemper 2211; November 8, 2006.


[Some VCL students]
Ryan, Omar, Mike M., Zhiyi, Mike L., and Bevan near the quad after lunch; August 26, 2004.



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Last update: January 05, 2010
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