Ivan Radivojevic

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, U.S.A.

Tel: (805) 893-4461

E-mail: ivan@aurora.ece.ucsb.edu

http://bears.ece.ucsb.edu/personnel/ivan

Academic Qualifications

Ph.D. Candidate, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC Santa Barbara, 1994
- thesis: Symbolic Scheduling Techniques
M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, 1990
- thesis: A Study of Fine-Grained Parallel Environment Executing DSP Algorithms
B.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1987
- thesis: 80186-based Microcomputer

Computer-aided design of integrated circuits: high-level synthesis and logic design
Microarchitectural design and instruction-level parallelism: hardware/software issues in superscalar, VLIW and multithreaded architectures
BDD applications to combinatorial and algebraic problems

Graduate assistant, UC Santa Barbara [1991-present]
- symbolic scheduling techniques for high-level synthesis of control-dominated circuits
- participated in development of a C++ generic object library for CAD research group
- VLSI circuit design: Wallace-tree multiplier chip, trigonometric functions look-up
Graduate assistant, Drexel University, Philadelphia [1989-1991]
- performance and programming aspects of dataflow and DSP architectures
Research engineer, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia [1987-1989]
- fault-tolerant systems: testing of Intel 80286/80287/80186-based multiprocessor and design of Motorola 68000-based digital commutation telephone system
- design and testing of an extended temperature range signal processing board based on the TMS320C25 DSP
- design and testing of Intel 80186/8087-based central processing unit for an extended temperature range real-time system
Programming languages used: C++, C, Fortran, PL/M, Id, assemblers for Intel/Motorola/TI microprocessors
CAD tools used: Mentor Graphics, Synopsys, SIS, Magic

Mentor Graphics Design Automation Fellowship, UC Santa Barbara [1994, 1995]
Reviewer for the ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference since 1994
Instructor, Logic Design and Switching Theory, UC Santa Barbara [1995]
Continuing International Graduate Students Fellowship, UC Santa Barbara [1992, 1993, 1994]
Teaching Fellow, Drexel University, Philadelphia [1991]
Nominated for the Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Drexel University, Philadelphia [1990]
Contributing writer, Racunari (Computers) magazine, Yugoslavia [1988-1989]
Student member of the IEEE Computer Society

UCSB CAD and Test Research Review [May 1995]
Seminars (with Prof. F. Brewer)
- Synopsys Inc, Mountain View, CA. [Sep. 1993, Feb. 1995]
- UC Berkeley [Feb. 1995]
Programmable Digital Signal Processors, Philadelphia IEEE Section [Jan. 1991]

Journal papers:

"A New Symbolic Technique for Control-Dependent Scheduling", IEEE Trans. Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, to appear.
"Symbolic Scheduling Techniques", IEICE Trans. Information and Systems, vol. e78-d, no. 3, Japan, March 1995.
"Executing DSP Algorithms in a Fine-Grained Dataflow Environment", IEEE Trans. Software Engineering, vol. 17, no. 10, Oct. 1991.
"High-Performance DSP Architectures for Intelligence and Control Applications", IEEE Control Systems Mag., vol. 11, no. 4, June 1991.
Series of articles on 32-bit microprocessors and systems, Racunari (Computers), Yugoslavia, No. 43, 45, 46, 47, 48, 50 and 51, Oct. 1988 - June 1989.

Conference papers:

"Analysis of Conditional Resource Sharing using a Guard-based Control Representation", Proc. Int. Conf. Computer Design, Austin, Texas, Oct. 1995.
"On Applicability of Symbolic Techniques to Larger Scheduling Problems", Proc. European Design and Test Conf., Paris, France, March 1995.
"Incorporating Speculative Execution in Exact Control-Dependent Scheduling", Proc. 31st ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conf., San Diego, CA, June 1994.
"Ensemble Representation and Techniques for Exact Control-Dependent Scheduling", Proc. 7th Int. Symp. High-Level Synthesis, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada, May 1994.
"Symbolic Techniques for Optimal Scheduling", Proc. 4th Synthesis and Simulation Meeting and Int. Interchange (SASIMI), Nara, Japan, Oct. 1993.
"DSP Architectural Features for Intelligence and Control Applications", Proc. 5th Int. Symp. Intelligent Control, Philadelphia, PA, Sep. 1990.

Technical Reports:

Experiments in BDD Applications to Algebra of Galois Fields, seminar talk, UC Santa Barbara, available at: http://bears.ece.ucsb.edu/personnel/ivan, 1995.
Homebrew(3), C++ library manual pages, ECE Tech. Report #94-28, University of California, Santa Barbara, Dec. 1994.