Volkan Kursun Assistant Professor Address/E-mail Program Affiliations Courses Education Fields of Interest Summary Files and Links >>> Extended Homepage <<<

Contact Information

3438 Engineering Hall 1415 Engineering Drive Madison, WI 53706-1691

Tel: 608/262-8804 E-mail: kursun@engr.wisc.edu

Program Affiliations

• Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Computer Engineering

Courses

• ECE 551: Digital System Design and Synthesis
• ECE 555: Digital Circuits and Components
• ECE 755: VLSI Systems Design

Education

• Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Rochester, 2004
• M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Rochester, 2001
• B.S., Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Middle East Technical University, 1999

Fields of Interest

• Low-power, low-voltage, and high-performance integrated circuit design
• Power density and reliability issues in scaled nanometer CMOS integrated circuits
• Self-sustaining integrated systems
• Energy harvesting power supplies
• On-chip noise analysis and noise suppression techniques
• Modeling of nanometer semiconductor devices
• Parameter variation tolerant integrated circuit design - design for manufacturability
• Emerging integrated circuit technologies

Summary

My research interests are in the broad area of very large scale integrated (VLSI) circuit and system design. Energy efficient computing is a primary research focus. The particular topics of interest are multiple supply and threshold voltage CMOS circuit techniques, dynamic supply and threshold voltage scaling, and low-voltage monolithic DC-DC converters. The development of leakage reduction techniques that consider both subthreshold and gate oxide leakage currents in scaled nanometer CMOS integrated circuits is an important research focus. Another interesting topic is globally asynchronous, locally synchronous (GALS) circuit design.

Semiconductor device physics and modeling with an emphasis on deep submicrometer phenomenon, reliability issues in scaled nanometer CMOS integrated circuits, resistive-inductive-capacitive interconnect modeling, and emerging integrated circuit technologies are also among my research interests. A significant portion of my current research activities is devoted to process parameter, supply voltage, and temperature variation tolerant robust integrated circuit design. Analytical models characterizing the effects of die-to-die and within-die parameter fluctuations on the electrical characteristics of nanometer CMOS integrated circuits are an area of strong interest.

Files and Links of Interest

• Nanoelectronic Circuits and Gigascale Systems Laboratory
• Open Positions: NEW (August 2008)
• Postdoctoral Researcher Position

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