A239 Engineering II
Riverside, Ca 92521
Phone: 951-827-4406
FAX: 951-827-4643

Yu-Chin Hsu
Professor, Computer Science and Engineering

Key Research Topics

Computer Aided Design (CAD) techniques have provided an enabling methodology to design efficiently and successfully large-scale high-performance circuits for a wide range of applications. Among the wide spectrum of CAD techniques, my research area lies on high level synthesis and physical design automation. Synthesis and physical design otpimization addresses various aspects of bridging the gap between achieving the design quality and meeting time-to-market pressure. The technique allows one to make tradeoffs between timing and die size, without sacrificing the time to the market. This is a research area that combines the knowledge of software and hardware, and an area that computer scientists can apply their theories and optimization techniques to practical applications.

Awards and Honors

• Outstanding Young Author Award, IEEE Circuit and System (CAS) Society, 1989.
• Distinguished paper, IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aide Design, 1989.
• Nomination for Best Paper Award, 29th Design Automation Conference, 1992.

Lab Facilities

A VSLI/CAD laboratory is being developed. It will be used to build CAD tools and prototype VLSI chips. The lab's computing facilities include 5 SUN IPX's and CAD tools from different sources.