Best Paper Award
2B-1: Connection-based Processing-In-Memory Engine Design Based on Resistive Crossbars
Shuhang Zhang (Tech. Univ. of Munich, Germany), Hai Li (Duke Univ., USA), Ulf Schlichtmann (Tech. Univ. of Munich,Germany)
2E-1: TreeNet: Deep Point Cloud Embedding for Routing Tree Construction
Wei Li, Yuxiao Qu (Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Gengjie Chen (Giga Design Automation, China), YuzheMa, Bei Yu (Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
University LSI Design Contest Awards
Best Design Award
1A-1: A DSM-based Polar Transmitter with 23.8% System Efficiency
Yuncheng Zhang, Bangan Liu, Xiaofan Gu, Chun Wang, Atsushi Shirane, Kenichi Okada (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan)
Special Feature Award
2A-1: A 65nm CMOS Process Li-ion Battery Charging Cascode SIDO Boost Converter with 89% Maximum Efficiency for RF Wireless Power Transfer Receiver
Yasuaki Isshiki, Dai Suzuki, Ryo Ishida, Kousuke Miyaji (Shinshu Univ., Japan)
10-Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award
AdaMS: Adaptive MLC/SLC phase-change memory design for file storage
Xiangyu Dong and Yuan Xie (Pennsylvania State Univ., U.S.A.)