Qiuling (Jolin) Zhu presents paper that receives 2013 HPEC Best Paper Award

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Qiuling (Jolin) Zhu, Tobias Graf, H. Ekin Sumbul, Larry Pileggi and Franz Franchetti received a best paper award at the Seventeenth Annual High Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC) Workshop at MIT Lincoln Laboratory for their paper titled: A Logic-in-Memory Accelerated 3D-DRAM for Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication. Jolin Zhu presented the paper and accepted the award.

Pileggi Receives Benjamin Richard Teare Teaching Award

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Larry Pileggi received the B.R. Teare Teaching Award that is made to a faculty member within the Carnegie Institute of Technology in recognition of excellence in engineering education. Fred Higgs of Mechanical Engineering also received the award for this year.

More details can be found at: http://www.cit.cmu.edu/faculty_staff/faculty_awards/teare.html.

Pileggi Receives ACM/IEEE Impact Award

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Tanoto Professor of ECE Larry Pileggi has received the ACM/IEEE A. Richard Newton Technical Impact Award in Electronic Design Automation for his paper, “PRIMA: Passive Reduced-Order Interconnect Macromodeling Algorithm.” The award, presented by the ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation and the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation, honors a person or persons for outstanding technical contribution within the scope of electronic design automation, as evidence by a paper published at least 10 years before the award’s presentation. The award is based on the impact of the contribution.

For Pileggi and co-authors Altan Odabasioglu and Mustafa Celik, that impact came from their PRIMA algorithm, which created simplified interconnect macromodels via dominant pole/zero methods. Since the paper was published in IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits in 1998, it has been cited more than 1,100 times, and the software tool Pileggi’s group developed based on the algorithm has been licensed by more than 10 companies. The work has also become the foundation of many new research directions that have spurred at least six “best paper” awards in the last nine years.

The ACM/IEEE A. Richard Newton Technical Impact Award in Electronic Design Automation honors A. Richard Newton, a design automation luminary in academia and industry. Pileggi and his co-authors will accept the award at the opening ceremony of the 2012 Design Automation Conference on Tuesday, June 5, in San Francisco.