The Carnegie Mellon University VLSI Design Group (VDG) focuses on the design and implementation of digital and mixed-signal micro-electronic systems. We work at various levels of the design stack ranging from circuits and layout to system architecture and CAD tools.


Ken Mai

Secure IC Design
We are developing new, low-cost, low-overhead countermeasures against invasive and non-invasive attacks for embedded systems and field-programmable gate-arrays (FPGAs.) More...

Robust Memory Design using Digital Communications Techniques
We are exploring microarchitectural and circuit-level techniques for increasting the resilience, performance, area, and power of semiconductor memories using techniques from digital communications. More...

100GHz Digitial Logic using Cryogenically Cooled CMOS
In this project, we are seeking to design radically high performance digital logic using cryogenic cooling of chips built in commercial CMOS technologies. More...

Bio-Implantable Computational Platforms
In this project, we are involved in a large multi-disciplinary research team whose goal is to design brain-implantable computing elements that can be used for disease diagnosis and treatment as well as human augmentation. More...

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