Mike Tsai

A PhD student at USC ECE with experiences in EDA and architecture.

Los Angeles, California, USA

ctsai299@usc.edu

https://mike84265.github.io

Research Interests

Primary

• Electronic Design Automation
• Physical Design
• Parasitic Extraction
• 3DIC

Secondary*

• Computer Architecture
• Soft/Hardware Co-design

*: interested but not familiar

Skills

Programming

C/C++, Python, csh/bash, tcl, SKILL (Virtuoso), spice, LaTeX, vim, MATLAB, verilog, html/js

Tools

gdb/lldb, Virtuoso, Innovus, HSPICE, Calibre, StarRC, Quantus RC, CustomCompiler, IC Compiler II, IC Validator

Casual

photography, badminton, sound mixing, lighting

About

Cheng-Yu (Mike) Tsai is a second-year PhD student at the SCCAD Lab, supervised by Dr. Sung-Kyu Lim in USC's ECE department. Before joining the SCCAD Lab, he worked on TSMC's custom design flow team for three years, where his mission included developing tools embedded in PDK or collaborating with EDA companies to introduce new features that facilitate customers' design efforts. He earned a master's degree in computer science from National Taiwan University (NTU) and double-majored in electrical engineering and computer science at NTU for his backelor's degree. His MS thesis focused on a performance analytical model that enables design space exploration (DSE) of cache design and understanding workload characteristics.

Work Experience

Education