Giuseppe Nicosia - Electronic Design Automation

Electronic Design Automation @ University of Catania

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Academic Network - Cadence EMEA. The Cadence Academic Network is a university/industry collaboration to support and improve Universities activities in the design of analog and digital devices, circuits and systems. The Electronic Design Automation Group of the University of Catania plays a major role in this network.

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Curriculum:

We are using Cadence tools in the following classes:

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.

People

Contact:

Giuseppe Nicosia, Associate Professor of Computer Science.

Post-Doc and PhD Students

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.
Claudio Angione, Ph. D. student in Computer Science, Computer Lab. - University of Cambridge, UK.

Research Students

Piero Conca, Ph.D. student in Computer Science, University of York, UK.
Rosario Rascuna', Ph.D. student in Computer Science, University of Essex, UK.
Annalisa Occhipinti, student in Applied Mathematics, University of Catania, Italy.

Research Papers

"Semiconductor Device Design using Bimads Algorithm",
G. Stracquadanio, V. Romano, G. Nicosia, Journal of Computational Physics, 2012 (to appear).
"Clonal Selection - An Immunological Algorithm for Global Optimization over Continuous Spaces",
M. Pavone, G. Narzisi, Giuseppe Nicosia, Journal of Global Optimization, Volume 53, Issue 4, Pages 769-808, 2012.
DOI 10.1007/s10898-011-9736-8.
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.

[Introduction] - [Contacts] - [Research] - [Publications] - [Projects] - [Events] - [Teaching] - [The Giants].

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.