[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

Paul Mejia
Ph.D. Student
  • Software-defined radio architectures
  • High speed low power system design
  • Printed circuit board design

Anh Tran
Ph.D. Student
  • Wireless baseband transmitter/receiver
  • Software Defined Radio platforms
  • High-performance DSP implementation

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

Gouri Landge
MS Student
  • H.264 accelerator
  • Video mapping
  • Video processing hardware

Jeff Collins
MS Student
  • High-speed board design
  • H.264 application
  • Video processing hardware

Stephen Le
MS Student
  • High-speed simulator
  • Parallel H.264 software
  • Tool integration
 
Other graduate researchers:

Undergraduate Researchers
Current and recent:
  • Henna Huang
  • Jon Pimentel
  • Kyle Piper

Alumni

Dr. Zhiyi Yu
Ph.D. ECE, Oct. 2007
Hardware Engineer
IntellaSys

  • 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
 
Undergraduate researchers:
  • 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

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]
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: April 29, 2008
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