Charbel J. Akl

Phd. student, 2004-present

VLSI Research Group
Center for Advanced Computer Studies  
University of Louisiana Lafayette

Contact information

email: cja3455@cacs.louisiana.edu , cja3455@louisiana.edu , cja3455@gmail.com

Research

My research focuses on high performance VLSI interconnects and circuits in deep submicron technologies, specifically:  

1) On-Chip signaling strategies
2) Signal integrity and crosstalk
3) reliable and robust designs, power grid IR drop, electromigration, thermal regulation, process variations for devices and interconnects, clock skew and jitter
4) Repeaters planning and placement, routing congestion, via blockages
5) wide fan-in domino gates and dynamic datapaths