Chuck Monahan

Degrees

PhD. Electrical and Computer Engineering...

Advanced to Candidacy - Univ of Cal, Santa Barbara 1993

M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering - Univ of Cal, Santa Barbara 1993

B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering - Univ of Cal, Santa Barbara 1990

Research

Developing concise datapath model using BDD's to denote the freedom and restrictions in data movement. We've used this model to implement a data-path constrained scheduler.

Resume

Publications

"Symbolic Data Path Analysis", Ph.D. thesis

"Scheduling and Binding Bounds for RT-Level Symbolic Execution", International Conference on CAD-97

"Concurrent Analysis Techniques for Data Path Timing Optimization", 33rd IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference

"Symbolic Modeling and Evaluation of Data Paths", 32nd IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference

"Symbolic Execution of Data Paths", Proc. of 5th Great Lakes Symp. on VLSI. Also available in postscript.

"Communication Driven Interconnection Synthesis", Proc. of 6th International Workshop on High Level Synthesis.

Web Site Administration

There are seemingly countless ways to get your web site going. You need to get httpd installed on your machine.

Your web pages must be wrtten in html. Maintaining and updating these documents are the hard part. Luckily, I use a frame to html converter, fm2html, written by Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner. Frame (or framemaker) is a page layout/word processor available for X, Windows, or Macintosh.

Other converters exist, here is the short list that I've found.

Fun Stuff and Hobbies

In an ideal world I would have more time to spend

• biking: I ride a Raliegh Instinct mountain bike. I have both slicks and knobbies (for the fun stuff).
  
• brewing beer: I'm just starting off using kits from William's Brewing in San Leandro. I've made Brown Ale, Highly Hopped Ale, Porter, Stout, Honey Porter, and Oatmeal Stout. The beer page is a nice place to find out more about brewing beer.
  
• hiking: Santa Barbara has many nice trails along the foothills. Last year was a wet one.
  
• diving: The Channel Islands are an excellent place to go diving, if you don't mind relatively cold water!
  
• cooking: I make some mean fried rice and pasta dishes: the secret is to use peas.
  
• travel: I like Chicago, New York, Munich, Paris, and Stockholm (so far). Just remember to check the weather before you pack.
  
• skydiving: My favorite way to hurtle towards the ground at speeds up to a 100mph. August 6, 1995 was the date of my first jump.
  
• rock climbing: If I've learned anything from this sport it's patience and careful planning. I've also learned not to look down!
  
• listen to music: That is everything but country... or western!
  

As it is, I just do

• computer programming: C++ has saved my life, but I can stomach C, lisp, perl, tcl
  
• prepare web/man pages: I write everything in Framemaker and then call the appropriate converters.
  
• keep our network secure
  
• shop for odds and ends that keep our lab operational.
  
• read comics - we have to allow for some indulgence.
  

Contact

Chuck Monahan

Dept of ECE

Box 254

Santa Barbara, Ca. 93106

(805) 893-4461

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