Eun Ju Hwang, advised by Professor Young Hwan Kim in the CAD and SoC Design Laboratory, received a Best Paper Award at ASQED 2011.

Conference: Asia Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, July 19–20, 2011, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Paper: Timing Yield Slack for Statistical Optimization.

Authors: Eun Ju Hwang, Wook Kim, and Young Hwan Kim.

ASQED is organized by the International Society for Quality Electronic Design and SHRDC, with sponsorship from IEEE societies including CAS, CPMT, and Reliability, and from Synopsys, Unisem, MIMOS, and SilTerra. Only three outstanding papers receive Best Paper Awards.

The paper proposed a new metric, timing yield slack, corresponding to timing slack in deterministic optimization, for efficient statistical optimization. Experiments demonstrated efficient calculation and application in actual optimization. Based on analysis of statistical design’s distinctive properties, it also examined effective use of timing resources in statistical optimization.