Software Defined Chips (PDF)

Shaojun Wei (Fellow, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree from the La Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, Mons, Belgium, in 1991. He is a professor at the School of Integrated Circuits, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, His main research interests include reconfigurable computing VLSI system-on-chip (SoC) design, electronic design automation (EDA) methodology and application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) design for communications. Prof. Wei has published more than 230 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, 9 books/book chapters with one of them being the first book on Reconfigurable Computing in China and nearly 100 international patents with several winning national awards. The main contributions of Prof. Wei are acknowledged by (1) dynamically reconfigurable computing pattern, (2) reconfigurable cell array architecture supporting highly efficient implementation of control-intensive applications, (3) configuration information mapping mechanism improving performance and power consumption. These technologies found applications in multimedia, cryptographic and neural processors, as well as processors for data centers. They not only laid the ground for software defined chips but were also highly appreciated by industry leaders such as Intel. Since 2009, Intel has carried out large projects with Prof. Wei's team for collaborative research and development. Prof. Wei has been coordinating the strategic plan for the semiconductor development in China as the leading expert of the "863 program" since 2000 and as the chief scientist of "National Key Projects of Science and Technology" for more than 10 years. His enormous contributions to IC design during the past 20 years have earned him the IEEE CAS Industrial Pioneer Award.



Leibo Liu received B.S. and Ph.D. from Tsinghua University in 1999 and 2004, respectively. He is a tenured professor of the School of Integrated Circuits at Tsinghua University. His research interests include reconfigurable computing,