TITLE: "Optical Systems 101 for EDA Practitioners" Prof. Jaijeet Roychowdhury University of Minnesota ABSTRACT: Optical communication has been a major driver for high-speed electronic circuit design, and optical interconnect are now being explored for on-chip communication. Will electronics become inseparably tied with optics in the future, and will CAD need to cope? In this talk, we present an overview of optical systems and technologies, and examine opportunities in the optical arena for VLSI/CAD practitioners. BIO: Jaijeet Roychowdhury received a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (Kanpur) in 1987, and a Ph.D degree in EECS from the University of California (Berkeley) in 1993. From 1993 to 1995, he was the CAD Lab of AT&T's Bell Laboratories in Allentown, PA; from 1995-2000, with the Communication Sciences Research Division of Lucent's Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ; and from 2000-2001, with CeLight, Inc., an optical networking startup in Silver Spring, MD. Since 2001, Roychowdhury has been with the ECE Department and the Digital Technology Center of the University of Minnesota. He received Distinguished or Best Paper awards at ICCAD 1991, DAC 1997, ASP-DAC 1997 and ASP-DAC 1999, was cited for Extraordinary Achievement by Bell Laboratories, and serves on the Technical Program Committees of DAC, ICCAD, BMAS and SCEE. Roychowdhury's professional interests include the design, analysis and simulation of electronic, electro-optical and mixed-domain systems, with emphasis on high-speed and high-frequency communications.