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Eren Dogan Receives Spanos Semiconductor Manufacturing Award
Graduate student Eren Dogan has been awarded the Costas J. Spanos Semiconductor Manufacturing Award from CITRIS and the Banatao Institute.
VLSI-DA lab paper at ISQED 2026!
Our paper “Effective Capacitance Modeling Using Graph Neural Networks” was accepted to ISQED 2026 in San Francisco.
Prof. Guthaus to Speak at ORConf
Professor Matthew Guthaus will present recent advancements in OpenROAD’s evolving optimizer at ORConf 2025.
VLSI-DA lab a paper at ICCAD 2024!
The VLSI-DA lab will have a paper at ICCAD 2024 in Newark, NJ. The paper is GAT-Steiner Rectilinear Steiner Minimal Tree Prediction Using GNNs.
VLSI-DA lab has two papers at ISCAS 2023
The VLSI-DA lab (and collaborators) presented two papers at ISCAS 2023 in Monterey, CA. These included: SRAM Design with OpenRAM in SkyWater 130nm by Jesse Cirimelli-Low, Muhammed Hadir Khan, Samuel Crow, Amogh Lonkar, Bugra Onal, Andrew Zonenberg, Matthew Guthaus OpenSpike: An OpenRAM SNN Accelerator by Farhad Modaresi, Matthew Guthaus, Jason Eshraghian Congrats to everyone on two great papers!
NSF report led by UCSC computer engineer offers guidance for the future of chip design and manufacturing
Although semiconductor chips affect nearly every facet of American life from cell phones to cars to healthcare, the country is facing a shortage of both the hardware itself and students educated to take on jobs in design and manufacturing. A new report from a National Science Foundation (NSF) steering committee led by UC Santa Cruz Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Matthew Guthaus offers guidance on revitalizing the hardware workforce by increasing access to education.
UCSC researchers awarded a record number of patents last year
UC Santa Cruz researchers were awarded 26 new patents in the last fiscal year, a record number for the campus. The new patents include novel compounds with potential medical uses, innovations in computer chip architecture, and new methods for genome assembly and analysis of genomic sequencing data. “Thanks to the outstanding efforts of our campus innovators, this represents a new high water mark for the UCSC campus, 27% more than our previous best of 20 patents in a single year,” said Vice Chancellor for Research Scott Brandt.
OpenRAM at International Conference on Supercomputing
Prof. Guthaus will be presenting his group’s latest work at the International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS) during the Workshop on RISC-V and OpenPOWER in HPC on June 14, 2021.