uFounding Director, The Gigascale
Systems Research
Center (
v Established in 1998 to address the challenges
of the growing chip design productivity gap
vCosponsored by
government (DARPA) and industry (SIA)
vOne of six
MARCO national research centers
vAnnual research
budget of around $8M
vIn 2000 had
grown to 24 faculty at 11 universities, 11 postdocs, 56 PhD students,
many industrial fellows
