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Initiatives in Digital Technology — Funded Proposals: Jaijeet Roychowdhury,
Wei-Chung Hsu
With semiconductor technologies continuously shrinking,
circuit simulators are being called upon to verify larger and larger circuits,
with concomitant increases in computation time. There is great interest in
techniques to make such computation more efficient without incurring any loss
of functionality. We propose a novel approach for delivering significant underlying
speedups to all circuit simulation tasks: targetted, dynamic cache
optimization of the MOSFET and other semiconductor devices that account for
the majority of circuit-related computations. Combining concepts and approaches from
the hitherto disparate areas of circuit simulation and dynamic cache optimization,
our multi-disciplinary approach is expected have significant impact on the simulation
of large circuits in industry. The PIs Roychowdhury and Hsu together bring to the
project an ideal combination of appropriate expertise. The main purpose of this
seed project is to obtain results based on which longer-term, externally-funded
grants can be applied for. Preliminary results are presented
that testify to the promise of our approach.
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