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Institute Affiliation:
Integrated Circuits and Systems
Contact Information:
Email:
ku@ece.ucsd.edu
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| | Walter H. Ku - Professor
High-speed integrated circuits and systems, design and fabrication of semiconductor IC's for adaptive signal and image processing, secure communications systems, physical design
Professor Ku is an expert on a broad range of electrical engineering and computer science disciplines, including broadband multimedia, wireless communications, military and naval electronics, and an area of pressing importance : the physical design of integrated circuits. At the advent of the microchip era, transistor switching speeds were the limiting factor in performance. But in today's VLSI era, defined by very large scale ICs packed with millions of high-speed transistors, physical questions, such as interconnect delay (or time wasted propagating signals) are coming to the fore. Ku has been a prolific author on this topic and his work is followed closely by VLSI Circuits designers, VLSI users, IC System Integrators, manufacturers of application specific integrated circuits or ASICS, and other VLSI microchips, and buiilders of computer-aided design/ computer-aided engineering (CAD/CAE) tools.
Capsule Bio:
Walter H. Ku joined the UCSD faculty in 1985, after a year as Distinguished Visiting Professor. The Founding Director of the NSF Industry/ University Cooperative Research Center on Ultra High-Speed Integrated Circuits and Systems (ICAS), he has received many honors. He is a member of IEEE Defense R&D Committee; Consultant to DOD DDR&E and DARPA; Member of Editorial Board, IEEE MTT Transactions; Associate Editor, Journal of Franklin Institute. Before coming to UCSD, he served at the GT&E Sylvania Applied Research Laboratory. Among other roles, he was the first occupant of the Naval Electronic Systems Command (NAVELEX) Research Chair Professorship in 1977. He received his Ph.D. from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1962.
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