Jain, Palkesh (Date of defense: 2017-05-05)
The phenomenal progress of computing devices has been largely made possible by the sustained efforts of semiconductor industry in innovating techniques for extremely large-scale integration. Indeed, ...
Vidal Obiols, Alexandre (Date of defense: 2020-01-24)
With the increase of chip component density and new manufacturability constraints imposed by modern technology nodes, the role of algorithms for electronic design automation is key to the successful ...
San Pedro Martín, Javier de (Date of defense: 2017-10-27)
Graphs are one of the most used abstractions in many knowledge fields because of the easy and flexibility by which graphs can represent relationships between objects. The pervasiveness of graphs in many ...
Moreno Vega, Alberto (Date of defense: 2019-03-08)
Improvements in circuit manufacturing have allowed, along the years, increasingly complex designs. This has been enabled by the miniaturization that circuit components have undergone. But, ...
Machado, Lucas (Date of defense: 2019-02-21)
Over the course of 60 years, since the invention of the integrated circuit (IC), exponential improvements in cost, performance and power consumption were observed. Such advances have been strongly linked ...