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Institute Affiliations:
Integrated Circuits and Systems
California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology
Contact Information:
Phone:
858-822-4884
Email:
abk@cs.ucsd.edu
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| | Andrew B. Kahng - Professor
Professor Kahng is an expert on the physical design of Very Large Scale Integrated circuits
(VLSI), and a key strategist defining the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors. The ITRS specifies
the technology developments needed to keep pace with Moore's Law.
Since the integrated circuit or IC was invented, transistor counts and clock speeds
on microprocessors, memory, and other chips have doubled roughly every two years. Kahng is a leader in multiple
efforts to maintain this pace, dubbed Moore's Law. One focus is helping to specify the next-generation
computer-aided design (CAD) tools that take into account physical design aspects once left for the foundry.
Problems with physical implementations of logic have been driving up costs as IC designs have grown more complex.
Kahng speaks extensively about this topic and the state-of-the-art in software for IC placement and routing,
leakage power reduction, interconnect analysis and optimization, and other physical phenomena. Kahng is a leader
in "roadmapping" efforts that help rationalize research spending. From 2000 to 2003, Kahng chaired the
international working group for Design technology for the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors.
The ITRS is sponsored by the major semiconductor consortia of North America, Europe, and the Far East, and also
is backed by key manufacturers, suppliers, government organizations, and universities.
Capsule Bio:
Kahng is a Professor in UCSD's Jacobs School of Engineering's Computer Science &
Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering departments. He
heads up UCSD's VLSI CAD and Applied
Algorithmics Laboratory, is on the executive committee and a thrust leader in the MARCO Design and Test focus
center, and served as program chair in 2004 and 2005 for the ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, the electronic
design automation industry's flagship annual conference. Kahng came to UCSD in January 2001, from the University
of California, Los Angeles. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCSD in 1989.
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