Electrical and computer engineering faculty members and a doctoral candidate have been honoured with best paper awards.
Adam Neale and Manoj Sachdev, both electrical and computer engineering professors, have been awarded the Custom Integrated Circuits Conference 2014 Best Poster Paper Award for their work entitled "A 0.4 V 75 kbit SRAM Macro in 28 nm CMOS Featuring a 3-Adjacent MBU Correcting ECC." They'll be presented with their award at the keynote session of CICC 2015 being held in San Jose, California next month.
ECE professors Vijay Ganesh and Krzysztof Czarnecki, along with their doctoral student Jimmy Liang, won a best paper award at the Software Product Line Conference held in Nashville, Tennessee from July 20 to 24. Their paper wntitled "SAT-based Analysis of Large Real-world Feature Models is Easy" explains why very large and complex feature models, encoded as Boolean satisfiability instances, are easy for SAT solvers to solve.