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Dr. Xun Liu

Assistant Professor

| Biography

Research Interests: CAD in VLSI

Current Research Topics: Low-power repeater insertion, Rotary clock based ASIC, SoC design

| Education

  1. 2003 - PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

| Primary Research Interests

  1. Computer Architecture and Systems (Including VLSI and Computer Aided Design*, VLSI System Design / ASIC Design Methods)
*Denotes areas in which student research is supported by Dr. Liu

| Other Research Interests

  1. Microwave, RF, Analog, and Digital (Including Computer-Aided Design / Modeling, Digital Circuits, VLSI)

| Selected Publications

  1. Xun Liu and Marios C. Papaefthymiou, HyPE: Hybrid Power Estimation for IP-Based Systems-on-Chip IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD) July 2005.
  2. Xun Liu, Yuantao Peng, and Marios C. Papaefthymiou. Practical Repeater Insertion For Low Power: What Repeater Library Do We Need? IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), accepted.
  3. Yuantao Peng and Xun Liu. Freeze: Engineering a Fast Repeater Insertion Solver for Power Minimization Using the Ellipsoid Method. In the 42nd ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2005.
  4. Xun Liu and Marios C. Papaefthymiou, A Markov chain sequence generator for power macromodeling. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), July 2004.
  5. Xun Liu, Marios C. Papaefthymiou. Design of a high-throughput low-power IS95 Viterbi decoder. IEEE Transactions on VLSI (TVLSI), Vol. 11, No. 6, December 2003