Faculty Profiles

David T. Blaauw
Division: CSE ECE
Address: 4749 CSE
Phone: (734) 763-4526
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Degree: PhD. University of Illinois
Title: Professor
Research Interests: Low Power and High Performance VLSI Design, Analysis and Optimization.
Research Areas: Computer Architecture; Computer-Aided Design and VLSI; Integrated Circuit Design and VLSI.
Areas of Specialty: Multi-Core and Parallel Architectures; Data Center Architecture; Low-Power Architectures; Electronic Design Automation; Reliability and Fault Tolerance; Trusted Computing and Intellectual Property Protection; Physical Design; Low-Power Circuits; VLSI and Digital Circuits; Runtime Correctness; Circuits for MEMS and Microsystems.
Selected Projects: Yield-Driven Near-Threshold SRAM Design; Nanometer Device Scaling in Subthreshold Circuits; Soft-Edge Flip-Flops for Improved Timing Yield: Design and Optimization; System-Level Reliability Factors and Implications on Real-Time Monitoring; Compact In-Situ Sensors for Monitoring NBTI Effect and Oxide Degradation; A Sub-pW Timer Using Gate Leakage for Ultra-Low-Power Sub-Hz Monitoring Systems; Timing Yield Enhancement Through Soft Edge Flip-Flop Based Design; A Robust Edge Encoding Technique for Energy-Efficient Multi-Cycle Interconnect; Self-Timed Regenerators for High-Speed and Low-Power Interconnect; Analysis and Optimization of Sleep Modes in Subthreshold Circuit Design; Statistical Sampling Under Variability; Current Source Modeling for Gate Delay; Robust SRAM Design for Subthreshold Operation; The Phoenix Processor: A 30pW Platform for Sensing Applications; Subliminal: An Ultra-Low-Energy Sensor Network Processor; Low-Energy Capacitance to Digital Converter (CDC) for Intraocular Pressure Sensor; Chip-to-Chip Proximity Communication.
 
 
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