From design to design automation

  • Authors:
  • Jason Cong

  • Affiliations:
  • University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2014 on International symposium on physical design
  • Year:
  • 2014

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Abstract

I had the pleasure to work at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) as a summer intern in 1987 with Dr. Bryan Preas. One of the many valuable lessons that I learned through that summer internship is that as a researcher in electronic design automation (EDA), there is a tremendous value to be had from an involvement in VLSI circuit and system designs. This involvement guarantees a first-hand opportunity to discover and formulate new and insightful EDA problems, and to develop practical and impactful solutions. This experience had a great influence on my career as an EDA researcher. In this paper, I would like to share several examples of research projects that I directed at UCLA which followed the principle of starting from design to gain insight and inspiration for design automation.