Chuan Lin's Publications

    Dissertation

  1. Chuan Lin, Timing Optimization Algorithms for Sequential Circuits. Ph.D. Dissertation, Northwestern University, April 2006.

    2. Journal articles

  2. Hai Zhou and Chuan Lin, Retiming for Wire Pipelining in System-On-Chip. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design, 23(9), pp. 1338-1345, September 2004.
  3. Chuan Lin and Hai Zhou, Wire Retiming as Fixpoint Computation. IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems. 13(12), pp. 1340-1348, December 2005.
  4. Chuan Lin and Hai Zhou, Optimal Wire Retiming Without Binary Search. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design. Accepted for publication.

    5. Conference papers

  5. Chuan Lin and Hai Zhou, Retiming for Wire Pipelining in System-On-Chip. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, San Jose, CA, 2003. [slides] (Nominated for best paper award)
  6. Chuan Lin and Hai Zhou, Wire Retiming for System-On-Chip by Fixpoint Computation. DATE '04: Design Automation & Test in Europe, Paris, France, 2004. [slides]
  7. Chuan Lin and Hai Zhou, Optimal Wire Retiming Without Binary Search. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, San Jose, CA, 2004. [slides]
  8. Chuan Lin and Hai Zhou, Trade-off between Latch and Flop for Min-Period Sequential Circuit Designs with Crosstalk. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, San Jose, CA, 2005. [slides]
  9. Chuan Lin, Jia Wang, and Hai Zhou, Clustering for Processing Rate Optimization. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, San Jose, CA, 2005. [slides]
  10. Chuan Lin and Hai Zhou, An Efficient Retiming Algorithm Under Setup and Hold Constraints. ACM/IEEE International Workshop on Timing Issues in the Specification and Synthesis of Digital Systems, San Jose, CA, 2006.
  11. Chuan Lin, Hai Zhou, and Aiguo Xie, Design Closure Driven Delay Relaxation Based on Convex Cost Network Flow. ACM/IEEE International Workshop on Timing Issues in the Specification and Synthesis of Digital Systems, San Jose, CA, 2006.
  12. Chuan Lin and Hai Zhou, An Efficient Retiming Algorithm Under Setup and Hold Constraints. ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, San Francisco, CA, 2006.

    13. Technical reports

  13. Chuan Lin and Hai Zhou. Trade-off between Latch and Flop for Min-Period Sequential Circuit Designs with Crosstalk. EECS Department, Northwestern University, TR-NUCAD-2005-01, 2005.
  14. Chuan Lin, Jia Wang, and Hai Zhou. Clustering for Processing Rate Optimization. EECS Department, Northwestern University, TR-NUCAD-2005-02, 2005.