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Yong-Bin Kim Professor and Director of High Performance VLSI design Lab Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Northeastern University Boston, MA ybk@ece.neu.edu, 617-373-2919 1

Prof. Yong-Bin Kim (ECE Dept) Prof. Kim ’ s Background • ETRI: VTR Analog Color Processor Chip, PCM Codec/Filter Chip • Intel: Mixed Mode ASIC Design, Pentium Pro CPU FDIV/MUL Design • HP: PA RISC CPU O-O-O Control Block Full Custom Design • Sun Micro Systems: 1.5 GHz Ultra Sparc CPU Design Methodology Development 2

HPVLSI Lab. at ECE Dept. – 17 PH.D amd 30+ MS Students Graduated – Currently 4 PH.D and 3 Master Students working on Low Power Integrated Circuit Design, Nanoscale Integrated Circuit Design Techniques and Methodology – Full Spectrum of CAD Tools including Cadence, Hspice, Synopsys, Covering the Complete Phase & VLSI Design. 3 3 3

Project Summaries Current Project Summary • Semi-Self Calibration of High Speed Transceiver Impedance Matching for Interface Between DRAM and Soc • Accurate and Efficient On-Chip Spectral Analysis for Built-In Self Test of Low Noise Analog Integrated Circuits • Low Power Biomimetic Robot Controller Integrated Circuits Design (CMOS Neuron and Synapse Design) • PMU (DC-DC Converter) Design for SoC • Innovative VLSI Circuits and Systems-on-Chip (SoC) • Nano-Electronics for CMOS and Emerging Technilogies 4

Selected Thesis Topics (PH.D Only) • VLSI Systems Design Based on Wave Pipelined Circuits (SUN/AMD, Samsung) • Low Power Digital Adaptive Voltage Scaling (AVS) Design Based on Hybrid Cotrol and Reverse Phase Mode (Intel, Analog Device) • An Adaptive Analog Controller VLSI Design for Biomimetic Robot (Start-Up) 5

Selected Thesis Topic(Cont ’ d) • Set-Based Circuit Simulation and Design Using HSPICE (Oracle) • A CMOS 4Gbps Serial Link Transciever Design Based on PWAM (Broadcom) • PVT Variation Aware Power Reduction Techniques for Nanoscale CMOS Design (Samsung) • CMOS Low Power All Digital PLL Design (Marvell) 6

Selected Thesis Topic(Cont ’ d) • Analysis and Design of Robust SRAM in Nanometric Circuits (Apple) • Fully Integrated On-Chip Switched Capacitor DC-DC Converters (Samsung) • Self Calibration Method for Mixed Signal Circuits in Systems-On-Chip (LG) • Self Calibration of High Speed Transceiver for DRAM Interface (SK Hynix) 7

Low Power Integrated Circuit Design Samples 8

Low Power Integrated Circuit Design Samples (Cont’d) 9

Low Power Integrated Circuit Design Samples (Cont’d) 10