Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Faculty Directory

Faculty

Chu, Chris Chong-Nuen -- Associate Professor
331 Durham Hall
Ames IA 50011		 Phone: 515-294-3490

 cnchu@iastate.edu
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Education

PhD, Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin (1999)
MS, Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin (1994)
BS, Computer Science, University of Hong Kong, China (1993)

Research Interests

Interconnect optimization; placement and routing of VLSI circuits

Core Research Areas: VLSI; computing and networking systems

Strategic Research Area: Small-Scale Technology

Selected Publications

Yan, J. Z., and C. Chu, “Deferred Decision Making Enabled Fixed-Outline Floor planner.” In Proc. IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference, Anaheim, CA, June 8-13, 2008.

Chu, C. and Y. C.Wong. “FLUTE: Fast Lookup Table-based Rectilinear Steiner Minimal Tree Algorithm for VLSI Design.” IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design 27, no. 1, (January 2008): 70–83.

Viswanathan, N., G. J. Nam, C. Alpert, P. Villarrubia, H. Ren and C. Chu. “RQL: Global Placement via Relaxed Quadratic Spreading and Linearization.” IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference, San Diego, CA, June 4-8, 2007, 453–458.

Pan, M. and C. Chu. “IPR: An Integrated Placement and Routing Algorithm.” In Proc. IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference, San Diego, CA, June 4-8, 2007: 59–62.

Viswanathan, N. and C. Chu. “FastPlace: Efficient Analytical Placement Using Cell Spreading, Iterative Local Refinement and a Hybrid Net Model.” In Proc. of the International Symposium on Physical Design, Phoenix, AZ, April 18-21, 2004, 26–33.
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