MTL Annual Research Report 2011

Collaborators

• R. Suaya, Mentor Graphics
• A. Elfadel, IBM T.J.Watson
• R. Mathur, Intel
• E. Demircan, Freescale
• S. Talocia, Politec. di Torino
• P. Triverio, Politec. di Torino
• M. Silveira, Univ. of Lisbon
• J. Villena, Univ. of Lisbon
• H. Fernandez, Univ. of Lisbon
• G. Antonini, Univ. dell’Aquila
• F. Ferranti, Ghent University
• A. Hochman, MIT EECS
• A. Megretski, MIT EECS
• D. Boning, MIT EECS
• J. White, MIT EECS
• K. Van Vliet, MIT Material Sci.
• R. Mahmoodian, MIT Material Sci.
• E. Adalsteinsson, MIT HST
• L. Wald, MGH Harvard

Graduate Students

• Y. Hsiao, MIT EECS
• E. Natarajan, MIT EECS
• Z. Mahmood, MIT EECS
• O. Mysore, MIT EECS
• Z. Zhang, MIT EECS
• Y. Zhao, MIT EECS

Support Staff

• C. Collins, Admin. Asst.

Publications

Z. Mahmood, T.Moselhy, L. Daniel, “Passive Reduced Order Modeling of Multiport Interconnects via Semidefinite Programming,” IEEE Conf. on Design Automation & Test in Europe, March 2010.

T. Moselhy, L. Daniel, “Variation-Aware Interconnect Extraction using Statistical Moment Preserving Model Order Reduction,” IEEE Conf. on Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), March 2010.  (Best Paper Award Nomination).

B. Bond, L. Daniel, “Model Order Reduction for Analog Integrated Circuits,” IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference, Anaheim, CA, June 2010. (Invited Paper)

T. Moselhy, L. Daniel, “Stochastic Dominant Singular Vectors Method for Variation-Aware Extraction,” IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conf., Anaheim, CA, June 2010.

Y. Hsiao, T. Moselhy, L. Daniel, “FastCaplet: A Template-Based Capacitance Field Solver for 3D VLSI Interconnect,” 28th Progress in Electromagnetic Research Sympos., Cambridge, July 2010.

T. Moselhy, L. Daniel “Electromagnetic Simulation for Variation-Aware Interconnect Parasitic Extraction,” 28th Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Cambridge, MA, July 2010.

T. Moselhy, B. Bond, J. Lee, J. White, L. Daniel, “Stabilized Immerse Boundary Method for the Simulation of the Human Arterial System,” SIAM Conference on the Life Sciences, Pittsburgh, PA, July 2010. (Invited Paper)

B. Bond, T. Moselhy, L. Daniel, “System Identification Techniques for Modeling of the Human Arterial System,”  SIAM Conference on the Life Sciences, Pittsburgh, PA, July 2010. (Invited Paper)

B. Bond, Z. Mahmood, R. Sredojevic, Y. Li, A. Megretski, V. Stojanovic, Y. Avniel, L. Daniel, “Compact Stable Modeling of Nonlinear Analog Circuits using System Identification via Semi-Definite Programming and Robustness Certification,” IEEE Trans. on Computer Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, v.29,n.8, p.1149-1162, Aug. 2010.

Z. Mahmood, B. Bond, L. Daniel, “System Level Modeling and Simulation of Analog Circuits Using Semidefinite Programming Based Compact Modeling Techniques,” TECHCON 2010 conference, Austin, TX, 13-14 September 2010. (Best Paper in Session Award).

Z. Zhang, Q. Wang, N. Wong, L. Daniel, “A Moment-Matching Scheme for the Passivity-Preserving Model Order Reduction of Indefinite Descriptor Systems with Possible Polynomial Parts,” IEEE/ACM Asia Pacific Design Automation Conference, Yokohama, Japan, January 2011 (Best Paper Award Nomination).

L. Daniel, “Reduction Strategies for Linear and Nonlinear Electronic Systems,” Workshop on Reduction Strategies for the Simulation of Complex Problems, Milano, Italy, Jan 2011.

T. Moselhy, L. Daniel, “A Markov Chain Based Hierarchical Algorithm for Capacitance Extraction,” IEEE Trans. on Advanced Packaging, Special Issue Feb 2011. (Invited Paper)

T. Moselhy, L. Daniel, Invited Paper: “Variation-Aware Stochastic Extraction with Large Parameter Dimensionality: Review and Comparison of State of the Art Intrusive and Non-Intrusive Techniques,” International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (IEQED), Santa Clara, CA March 2011.

Y. Hsiao, L. Daniel, “A Highly Scalable Parallel Boundary Element Method for Capacitance Extraction,” IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conf., San Diego, CA, June 2011.

L. Daniel, “New Advances and Future Directions in Model Reduction,” Workshop on Advances in Numerical Computation, Manchester UK, July 2011. (Invited Plenary)