Selected Publications

  • M. Miller, G. Magazzu, F. Brewer, "5 Gbps Radiation-Hardened Low-Power Pulse Serial Link,", Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on , vol.63, no.1, pp.203-212, Feb. 2016
  • K. Arya, F. Brewer, "A memory-first language and model for hardware-software cosynthesis", Electronic System Level Synthesis Conference (ESLsyn), May 2014
  • Wei Tang, F. Brewer, "A hierarchical framework to enhance scalability and performance of scheduling and mapping algorithms", Electronic System Level Synthesis Conference (ESLsyn) , May 2014
  • M Miller, F. Brewer, G. Magazzu, "5GB/s radiation hard low power point to point serial link", Real Time Conference (RT), 2014 19th IEEE-NPSS , May 2014
  • K. Arya, J. Poverelli, F. Brewer, "Ongoing challenges in automated cyberphysical cross-domain design," Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), Jan. 2013
  • Wei Tang, F. Brewer, "A hierarchical Ant-Colony heuristic for architecture synthesis for on-chip communication", Design and Architectures for Signal and Image Processing (DASIP), Oct. 2013
  • Wei Tang, F. Brewer, "Scalable high quality hierarchical scheduling", Electronic System Level Synthesis Conference (ESLsyn), June 2013
  • A. Chatterjee, M. Shrivastava, H. Gossner, S. Pendharkar, F. Brewer, C. Duvvury, "An Insight Into the ESD Behavior of the Nanometer-Scale Drain-Extended NMOS Device - Part I: Turn-On Behavior of the Parasitic Bipolar" IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Feb. 2011
  • A. Chatterjee, A., M. Shrivastava, H. Gossner, S. Pendharkar, F. Brewer, C. Duvvury, "An Insight Into ESD Behavior of Nanometer-Scale Drain Extended NMOS (DeNMOS) Devices: Part II (Two-Dimensional Study-Biasing   Comparison With NMOS)" IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Feb. 2011
  • A. Chatterjee, S. Pendharkar, C. Duvvury, F. Brewer, "Modeling the 3D self ballasting behavior and filamentation under high current stressing in DeNMOS", ISPSD, May 2011
  • Jian Zhen, F. Brewer, V. Rodoplu, "Automated MAC Protocol Generation with Multiple Neighborhoods and Acknowledgments Based on Symbolic Monte Carlo Simulation", Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2011), Dec. 2011
  • Jian Zhen, F. Brewer, V. Rodoplu, "A Methodology for Optimal MAC Protocol Generation: Case Study of a Synchronous MAC Channel", Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2010), Dec. 2010
  • A. Chatterjee, F. Brewer, S.C. Lee, A.S. Oates, Investigating the electro-thermal origin of breakdown in low-K/Cu dielectrics under short duration over stressed pulsed regime IRPS, 2010
  • A. Chatterjee, S. Pendharkar, H. Gossner, C. Duvvury, F. Brewer, Improving surface bipolar activity in thin gate oxide DE-NMOS — A critical HV I/O protection element for nano-meter scale technologies ISPSD June 2010
  • C. Burgner, Yie Zi , N. Kataria, L. Oropeza, K. Astrom, F. Brewer, K. Turner, Digital control of tunneling accelerometer IEEE Sensors, Oct. 2009
  • Historical Entrys in Publication List beyond this point. Updates in progress...
  • F. Brewer, B. Pangrle, A. Seawright, "Interconnection Synthesis with Geometric Constraints", Proc. MICRO-23, pp. 158-165, 1990.
  • A. Crews, F. Brewer, "Shape-Based Sequential Machine Analysis ", Int. Conf. on Circuits and Systems , pp. , 1999.
  • A. Crews, F. Brewer, "Controller Optimization for Protocol Intensive Applications", Proc. of Euro-DAC 96, pp. 140-145, 1996.
  • J. Greenbaum, F. Brewer, "Interface Constrained Processor Specification and Scheduling", Proc. 2nd Great Lakes Symp. on VLSI, pp. 168-175, 1992.
  • H. Ha, F. Brewer, "Power and Signal Integrity Improvement in Ultra High-Speed Current Mode Logic", Int. Conf. on Circuits and Systems , pp. , 1999.
  • S. Haynal, Automata-Based Symbolic Scheduling, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2000.
  • S. Haynal, F. Brewer, "Automata-Based Symbolic Scheduling for Looping DFGs", IEEE Trans. on Computers, to appear, 2000.
  • S. Haynal, F. Brewer, "Representing and Scheduling Looping Behavior Symbolically", IEEE Int. Conf. Computer Design, pp. 552-555, 2000.
  • S. Haynal, F. Brewer, "A Model for Scheduling Protocol-Constrained Components and Environments", Proc. 36th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conf., pp. 292-295, 1999.
  • S. Haynal, F. Brewer, "Efficient Encoding for Exact Symbolic Automata-Based Scheduling", IEEE Int. Conf. Computer-Aided Design, pp. 477-481, 1998.
  • C. Monahan, F. Brewer, "Scheduling and Binding Bounds for RT-Level Symbolic Execution", Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Computer-Aided Design, pp. 230-235, 1997.
  • C. Monahan, "Symbolic Data Path Analysis", Ph.D. Thesis,  1997.
  • C. Monahan, F. Brewer, "Concurrent Analysis Techniques for Data Path Timing Optimization", Proc. 33rd ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conf., pp. 47-50, 1996.
  • C. Monahan, F. Brewer, "Symbolic Execution of Data Paths", Proc. of 5th Great Lakes Symp. on VLSI, pp. 80-85, 1995.
  • C. Monahan, F. Brewer, "Symbolic Modeling and Evaluation of Data Paths", Proc. 32nd ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conf., pp. 389-394, 1995.
  • C. Monahan, F. Brewer, "Communication Driven Interconnection Synthesis", Proc. 6th Int. Workshop on High-Level Synthesis, 1992.
  • B. Pangrle, F. Brewer, D. Lobo, A. Seawright, "Relevant Issues in High-Level Connectivity Synthesis" (slides), Proc. 28th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conf., pp. 607-610, 1991.
  • I. Radivojevic, "Symbolic Scheduling Techniques", Ph.D. Thesis, 1996.
  • I. Radivojevic, F. Brewer, "A New Symbolic Technique for Control-Dependent Scheduling", IEEE Trans. CAD/ICAS, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 45-57, Jan. 1996.
  • I. Radivojevic, F. Brewer, "Symbolic Scheduling Techniques", IEICE Trans. Information and Systems, vol. e78-d, no. 3, pp. 224-230, March 1995.
  • I. Radivojevic, F. Brewer, "Analysis of Conditional Resource Sharing Using a Guard-based Control Representation", Proc. Int. Conf. Computer Design, pp. 434-439, 1995.
  • I. Radivojevic, F. Brewer, "On Applicability of Symbolic Techniques to Larger Scheduling Problems", Proc. European Design and Test Conf., pp. 48-53, 1995.
  • I. Radivojevic, F. Brewer, "Ensemble Representation and Techniques for Exact Control-Dependent Scheduling", Proc. 7th Int. Symp. High-Level Synthesis, pp. 60-65, 1994.
  • I. Radivojevic, F. Brewer, "Incorporating Speculative Execution in Exact Control-Dependent Scheduling", Proc. 31st ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conf., pp. 479-484, 1994.
  • I. Radivojevic, F. Brewer, "Symbolic Techniques for Optimal Scheduling", Proc. 4th Synthesis and Simulatin Meeting and International Interchange (SASIMI), pp. 145-154, 1993.
  • A. Seawright, "Grammar-Based Specification and Synthesis for Synchronous Digital Hardware Design", Ph.D. Thesis, 1994.
  • A. Seawright, F. Brewer, "Clairvoyant: A Synthesis System for Production-based Specification", Proc. IEEE Trans. on VLSI Systems, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 172-185, June 1994.
  • A. Seawright, F. Brewer, "High-level Symbolic Construction Techniques for High Performance Sequential Synthesis" (circuit), Proc. 30th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conf., pp. 424-428, 1993.
  • A. Seawright, F. Brewer, "Synthesis from Production-based Specifications" (slides), Proc. 29th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conf., pp. 194-199, 1992.
  • A. Seawright, F. Brewer, "High Performance Data-Path Synthesis via Communication Metrics", Proc. of 2nd Great Lakes Symp. on VLSI, pp. 60-67, 1992.
  • T. Stornetta, F. Brewer, "Implementation of an Efficient Parallel BDD Package", Proc. of 33rd ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conf., pp. 641-644, 1996.