TITLE:	"Giga = 1/Nano: CAD Tools and Modeling Challenges
	  for Giga-scale Mixed Technology Micro-Systems"


Prof. Steven P. Levitan
University of Pittsburgh

ABSTRACT: 

The confluence of "system on a chip" (SoC) integration levels
with new micro-scale optical, optoelectronic and electromechanical
components has enabled the fabrication of an entirely new class of
systems: micro-optical electrical mechanical systems, called MOEMS or
OMEMS. These mixed technology micro-systems have the potential of
drastically reducing the size and cost of digital communications and
computation systems. Some examples of these systems are: digital
micro-mirror device projection systems, tunable vertical cavity surface
emitting laser arrays, high speed optical network switches, and optical
disc pickup heads. As these applications are quickly evolving from
abstract ideas to marketable products, it is essential to have
extensible mixed-technology system level CAD tools to model these
systems, in order to avoid costly prototyping.  In this growing field,
technologies are constantly advancing, and CAD tools must be flexible in
their ability to model and simulate new multi-domain components and
systems. This talk presents the challenges for CAD tools to meet the
needs of OMEMS system design.

BIO: 

Steven P. Levitan is the John A. Jurenko Professor of Electrical
Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh.  He received the B.S.
degree from Case Western Reserve University in 1972.  From 1972 to 
1977 he worked for Xylogic Systems designing hardware for computerized 
text processing systems. He received his M.S. (1979) and Ph.D. (1984), 
both in Computer Science, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. 
He is an Associate Editor for the ACM Transactions on Design Automation 
of Electronic Systems.  From 1998 to 2001 he was Chair of the ACM Special 
Interest Group on Design Automation. Since 1998 he has been a member of the
Design Automation Conference Executive Committee.