Don Smith

IN PREPARATION

Research Interest

• VLSI design and manufacture including simulation, evaluation, manufacturability, fault detection, and diagnosis.

• AI-based design-systems applied to real-world problems.

• Massively parallel, fine-grain computer architectures including hardware/software tools and interfaces.

• Application of massively parallel computing to complex real-world problems.

Research Projects

• I am a researcher and area coordinator for microlithographic design on the HPCD Project . The Hypercomputing and Design Project (HPCD) is an ARPA sponsored project developing advanced AI-based design methodologies covering a wide range of applications. The microlithographic area within this project is investigating the application of design techniques to the problem of mask and process design for sub-1/4 micro-chip fabrication.

• I am a co-PI of the Rutgers CAM Project. This is an ARPA sponsored project designing a cost-effective general-purpose memory architecture based on concepts drawn from the areas of associative processing and content addressable memory.

• I am also working in the areas of conceptual design of aircraft and the design of supersonic and hypersonic inlets. This work is sponsored by NASA-AMES and by ARPA under the HPCD Project .