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Research
Interest
Embedded & Reconfigurable
Systems (with Medical and image processing applications), VLSI CAD (Physical
& Logic Design, Reconfigurable Computing), Wireless Health.
Examples:
Wireless Health
 The CustoMed
Project in the ER Lab was featured in the UCLA's Engineering School (02-14-2007)
 View video of an in-vivo
pressure sensor surgery on a pig as part of a collaboration
between the BioHybrid Microsystems Lab and
the WESTS Project
in the ER Lab. Warning: Video is graphic
"THE DEVELOPMENT
OF AN IN-VIVO ACTIVE PRESSURE MONITORING SYSTEM." Body
Sensor Networks (BSN 2007). (Email for pdf)
VLSI CAD
Dragon is a fast,
effective standard cell placement tool for both variable-die and fixed-die
ASIC design. Dragon enables wirelength and routable
optimization by combining power hypergraph
partitioning package (hMetis) with simulated
annealing techniques.
Algorithm Design
General Delay Budgeting on Directed Acyclic Graphs with
Applications.
Constant Model of Computation.
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Professional Activities (samples)
General Chair of the International
Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), San Jose, CA, November 2005.
Expert Witness, in several CAD
related litigations
Co-founder, MediSens
Wireless, founded September 2006
Co-Founder, Hierarchical Design,
Inc., 2001. Was acquired by Xilinx in 2004.
Main architect, Monterey Design
Systems, Was acquired by Synopsys in 2004.
Books
M. Sarrafzadeh and C. K. Wong, An
Introduction to VLSI Physical Design McGraw Hill, 1996 (authored book).
M. Sarrafzadeh and D. T. Lee,
Algorithmic Aspects of VLSI Layout, Lecture Notes Series on Computing, World
Scientific; 1993 (edited book)
M. Sarrafzadeh, M. Wang, X.
Yang, Modern Placement Techniques, Kluwer, 2002
(authored book).
R. Kastner,
A. Kaplan, M. Sarrafzadeh, Synthesis, Reconfigurable Systems, Kluwer, 2003 (authored book).
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