Development of Efficient and Interdisciplinary Techniques for Physical Design of Integrated Circuits and and Beyond

集成电路广泛应用于现代生活的方方面面，其性能和成本对我们的社会有着重大的影响。ICS由数十亿个大小在45到14纳米之间的晶体管组成，使它们比大多数病毒都小。为了能够处理数量庞大和尺寸极端的IC，其生产的每个方面都需要使用电子设计自动化(EDA)工具进行自动设计和优化。提出的研究计划的总体目标是使用优化、数据挖掘、并行编程和估计技术来设计更好的EDA工具，以应对上述挑战。此外，开发的设计自动化工具将进行修改，以优化通信和石油和天然气开采等其他研究领域的操作。

Integrated circuits (IC) are used in every aspect of our modern lives, and their performance and cost have significant impact on our society. ICs are made of billions of transistors ranging between 45 to 14 nm in size, making them smaller than most viruses. To be able to deal with the sheer numbers and extreme sizes of IC, every aspect of their production needs to be automatically designed and optimized using Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools. The overall goal of the proposed research program is use optimization, data mining, parallel programming and estimation techniques to design better EDA tools that address the above challenges. In addition, the developed design automation tools will be modified to optimize the operation of other research areas such as communication and oil and gas extraction.