Electronic Design Automation @ University of Catania

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• Scientific Computing. The course analyzes the optimization algorithms and design methodologies of complex circuits and microelectronic systems based on scaled MOS devices.
• Machine Learning. The course presents methods and algorithms for real-time applications and novel electronic design automation tools.

Contact:

• Dr. G. Narzisi, Ph.D. in Computer Science, completed 2008. Now at New York University, NYC, USA.
• Dr. G. Stracquadanio, Ph.D. in Computer Science. Now Post-Doc at Johns Hopkins University, MD, USA.
• Dr. E. Sciacca, Ph.D. in Mathematics for Technology. Now Post-Doc at University of Torino, Italy.
• Dr. R. Umeton, Ph.D. in Computer Science. Now Post-Doc at University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy.
• Jole Costanza, Ph. D. student in Computer Science, University of Catania.

• Piero Conca, Ph.D. student in Computer Science, University of York, UK.
• Rosario Rascuna', Ph.D. student in Computer Science, University of Essex, UK.
• Claudio Angione, MSc Student in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Scuola Superiore di Catania/Institute for Advanced Studies.
• Annalisa Occhipinti, student in Applied Mathematics, University of Catania, Italy.

	The First IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computational Intelligence - FOCI 2007, 1-5 April 2007, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
	Workshop on Evolutionary Computation - (EC)2AI/GSICE 2006, at the 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2006). , Riva del Garda, Italy, August 28 - September 1st 2006.
	The 8th Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics - SIMAI 2006, Baia Samuele (Ragusa) Italy, May 22-26, 2006.

	COMSON, "COupled Multiscale Simulation and Optimization in Nanoelectronics", is a Marie Curie Research Training Network, supported by the European Commission within the 6th Framework Research Programme of the EU. Established Oct 1st, 2005, will run for 4 years.
	Symteco, "Symbolic Techniques for Circuit Optimization", Marie Curie Fellowships for the Transfer of Knowledge (ToK). ST Microelectronics in Catania (Italy) and Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics (ITWM) in Kaiserslautern (Germany).

Multi-objective Optimization for the Integrated Circuit Design, P.O.N. legge 297, University of Catania: A. M. Anile, G. Nicosia and ST Microelectronics: Tonio Biondi. January 1st 2003 - June 30th 2006.

• G. Stracquadanio, C. Drago, V. Romano, G. Nicosia "Evolutionary Design of Semiconductor Devices", IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2010), Barcelona, Spain, July 18-23, 2010. IEEE Press, pp.1-7.

• C. Drago, G. Nicosia, V. Romano, G. Stracquadanio, "Multi-Objective Optimization of Doping Profile in Semiconductor Design", ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference - GECCO 2010, July 7-11, 2010, Portland, Oregon, USA. ACM Press, pp. 1243-1250.

• G. Nicosia and G. Stracquadanio, "Robust Device and Circuit Design using Effective Constrained Multi-Objective Optimization", Cadence CDNLive! EMEA, 2010. May 4-6, 2010, Munich, Germany.

• G. Nicosia, C. M. Palano, N. E. Porto, F. D' Amico, G. Morelli, "SMPS Interactive Design Simulator - Efficient Power- Supply Designs", Cadence CDNLive! EMEA, 2010. May 4-6, 2010, Munich, Germany.

• P. Conca, G. Nicosia, G. Stracquadanio, J. Timmis, "Nominal-Yield-Area Tradeoff in Automatic Synthesis of Analog Circuits: A Genetic Programming Approach using Immune-Inspired Operators", NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS-2009), co-located with the 46th Design Automation Conference (DAC 2009), July 29 - August 1, 2009, San Francisco, CA, USA; IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 399-406.
  

• G. Nicosia, S. Rinaudo, E. Sciacca, " An Evolutionary Algorithm-Based Approach to Robust Analog Circuit Design using Constrained Multi-Objective Optimization", Knowledge-Based Systems J., 21(3):175-183, 2008.
  Best Paper Award sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Laboratories.
  The 27th SGAI Int. Conf. on Artificial Intelligence AI-2007.

• A. Ciccazzo, P. Conca, G. Nicosia, G. Stracquadanio, " An Advanced Clonal Selection Algorithm with ad-Hoc Network-based Hypermutation Operators for Synthesis of Topology and Sizing of Analog Electrical Circuits", 7th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems - ICARIS 2008, 10th-13th August, 2008, Phuket, Thailand. Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5132:60-70, 2008.

• A. Ciccazzo, T. Halfmann, A. Marotta, G. Nicosia, S. Rinaudo, G. Stracquadanio, A. Venturi, " New Coupled EM and Circuit Simulation Flow for Integrated Spiral Inductor by Introducing Symbolic Simplified Expressions", IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics - ISIE 2008, June 30 - July 2, 2008, Cambridge, England, UK. pp. 1203-1208, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Press.

• G. Nicosia, S. Rinaudo, E. Sciacca, "An Evolutionary Algorithm-Based Approach to Robust Analog Circuit Design using Constrained Multi-Objective Optimization", The 27th SGAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence AI-2007, 10-12 December 2007, Cambridge, England, UK. Springer-Verlag, pp. 7-20.
  Best Paper Award sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Laboratories.

• T. Biondi, C. Ciccazzo, V. Cutello, S. D'Antona, G. Nicosia, S. Spinella,
  Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms and Pattern Search Methods for Circuit Design Problems,
  J. of Universal Computer Science, 12(4):432-449, 2006.

• V. Cutello, G. Nicosia, R. Rascuna', S. Spinella,
  Optimizing Inductor Circuit and Two-Stage Operational Transconductance Amplifier by means Evolutionary and Classical Algorithms,
  International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering, 1(2/3):158-169, 2006.

• A. M. Anile, V. Cutello, G. Nicosia, R. Rascuna', S. Spinella,
  Comparison among Evolutionary Algorithms and Classical Optimization Methods for Circuit Design Problems,
  IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2005,
  September 2-5, 2005, Edinburgh, UK.
  IEEE Press, vol. 1, pp. 765-772, 2005.

• G. Nicosia, S. Rinaudo,
  Optimization Population-Based Algorithms for High-Performance Analog Circuits,
  2008 SIAM Conference on Optimization - OP08,
  Boston, Massachusetts, USA, May 10-13, 2008.

• F. Fiorante, G. Greco, G. Nicosia, S. Rinaudo, G. Stracquadanio,
  Automatic Layout Optimization of Power Mosfets Using An Effective Population-Based Algorithm,
  2008 SIAM Optimization Conference - OP08,
  Boston, Massachusetts, USA, May 10-13, 2008.

• G. Nicosia, E. Sciacca,
  Pattern Search Algorithms for Circuit Design Optimization,
  2008 SIAM Optimization Conference - OP08,
  Boston, Massachusetts, USA, May 10-13, 2008.

Giuseppe Nicosia, Optimization, Combinatorial Optimization, Numerical Optimization, Non Linear Optimization, Large Scale Optimization, Evolutionary Algorithms, Genetic Algorithms, Immune Algorithms, Artificial Immune Systems, Graph Coloring, String Folding, NP-complete problems, Circuit Optimization, Circuit Design, Design For Yield, Device Optimization, Electronic Design Automation, Bioinformatics, Structural Bioinformatics, Protein Folding, Protein Structure Prediction, HP model.