The Nifty Chips Laboratory at Hanyang University is working on cool circuits and their automatic generators.
We desire to make great chips in great ways. Check the research topics we are currently focusing in the following paragraphs.
While the demands on high performance chips are getting higher, improving the
performance of chips becomes much harder than before due to the diminishing
returns of process scaling.
Therefore, we are working on innovative circuit and system design techniques
that push the performance of chips beyond the technology limit.
As the advanced CMOS technology nodes adopt sophisticated manufacturing
techniques (such as FinFET and multiple patterning), it becomes much harder and
expensive to build chips in advanced technologies. In order to reduce the
chip design cost, we are working on automatic chip generators that produce
complicated chips for various design targets and applications.