Luca Daniel

Research:

Selected Publications by our research group at MIT:

L. Daniel, C. R. Sullivan, S. R. Sanders. “Design of Microfabricated Inductors”, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 14, no. 4, p. 709-23, July 1999. (Power Electronic Society Award for Best Journal Paper in the year 1999).
J. Phillips, L. Daniel, L. M. Silveira, "Guaranteed Passive Balancing Transformations for Model Order Reduction", IEEE/ACM 39th Design Automation Conference, New Orleans, LA, p. 52-7, June 2002. (DAC Best Paper Award, More than 290 citations as of April 2016).
L. Daniel, C. S. Ong, S. C. Low, K. H. Lee, J. White, "A Multiparameter Moment Matching Model Reduction Approach for Generating Geometrically Parameterized Interconnect Performance Models", IEEE Transaction on Computer Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 23, no. 5, p. 678-93, May 2004. (More than 290 citations as of April 2016).
K. C. Sou, A. Megretski, L. Daniel, "A Quasi-Convex Optimization Approach to Parameterized Model Order Reduction", IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference, Anaheim, CA, p. 933-8, June 2005.
B. Bond and L. Daniel, "Parameterized Model Order Reduction of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems", Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer-Aided Design, San Jose, CA, p. 487-94, November 2005.
T. Moselhy and L. Daniel, "Stochastic Integral Equation Solver for Efficient Variation Aware Interconnect Extraction", IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference, Anaheim, CA, p. 415-20, June 2008.
B. Bond and L. Daniel, "Guaranteed Stable Projection-Based Model Reduction for Indefinite and Unstable Linear Systems" Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer-Aided Design, San Jose, p. 728-35, November 2008. (IEEE/ACM William J. McCalla ICCAD Best Paper Award).
T. Moselhy, I. M. Elfadel, and L. Daniel, "A Capacitance Solver for Incremental Variation-Aware Extraction", Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer-Aided Design, San Jose, p. 662-9, November 2008.
B. Bond, L. Daniel, "Stable Reduced Models for Nonlinear Descriptor Systems Through Piecewise-Linear Approximation and Projection", IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 28, no. 10, p. 1467-1480, October 2009.
T. Moselhy, L. Daniel, “Variation-Aware Interconnect Extraction using Statistical Moment Preserving Model Order Reduction,” IEEE Conference on Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), March 2010. (Best Paper Award Nomination).
T. El-Moselhy, L. Daniel, “Stochastic Dominant Singular Vectors Method for Variation-Aware Extraction,” IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conf., Anaheim, CA, June 2010.
B. Bond, Z. Mahmood, R. Sredojevic, Y. Li, A. Megretski, V. Stojanovic, Y. Avniel, L. Daniel, “Compact Stable Modeling of Nonlinear Analog Circuits using System Identification via Semi-Definite Programming and Robustness Certification,” IEEE Trans. on Computer Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 29,no 8, p. 1149-1162, August 2010.
T. Moselhy, I. Elfadel, L. Daniel, “A Markov Chain Based Hierarchical Algorithm for Capacitance Extraction”, IEEE Trans. on Advanced Packaging, vol. 33,no 4,p. 818-828, Nov. 2010. (Invited Paper).
T. Moselhy, L. Daniel, “Variation-Aware Stochastic Extraction with Large Parameter Dimensionality: Review and Comparison of State of the Art Intrusive and Non-Intrusive Techniques”, International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), Santa Clara, CA March 2011. (Invited Paper)
Z. Zhang, T. El-Moselhy, P. Maffezzoni, I. M. Elfadel and L. Daniel, "Efficient uncertainty quantification for the periodic steady state of forced and autonomous circuits," IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems II, vol. 60, no.10, pp. 687-691, October 2013.
Z. Zhang, T. El-Moselhy, I. M. Elfadel and L. Daniel, “Stochastic testing method for transistor-level uncertainty quantification based on generalized polynomial chaos,” IEEE Trans. Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 32, no. 10, pp. 1533-1545, October 2013. (TCAD Best Paper Award)
Z. Zhang, T. A. El-Moselhy, I. M. Elfadel and L. Daniel, "Calculation of generalized polynomial-chaos basis functions and Gauss quadrature rules in hierarchical uncertainty quantification," in IEEE Trans. Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), vol. 33, no. 5, pp. 728-740, 2014.
A. Hochman, J. Fernandez Villena, A. G. Polimeridis, L.M. Silveira, J. K. White, and L. Daniel. “Reduced-Order Models for Electromagnetic Scattering Problems”. In IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, vol: PP, issue: 99, April 2014.
J. F. Villena, A. G. Polimeridis, B. Guerin, Y. Eryaman, L. L. Wald, E. Adalsteinsson, J. White, and L. Daniel, “Fast Electromagnetic Analysis of Transmit RF Coils based on Accelerated Integral Equation Methods”, International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) 2014 Annual Meeting. Milan, Italy. May 2014. (Summa cum Laude Merit Award)
Z. Zhang, X. Yang, G. Marucci, P. Maffezzoni, I. M. Elfadel, G. Karniadakis and L. Daniel, ``Stochastic testing simulator for integrated circuits and MEMS: Hierarchical and sparse techniques,'' IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conf. (CICC), 8 pages, San Jose, CA., Sept. 2014. (CICC Invited Paper, Best Paper Nomination)
Z. Mahmood, S. Grivet-Talocia, G.C. Calafiore, L. Daniel (2014). Optimal passivity enforcement of state-space models via localization methods. In: Electrical Performance of Electronic Packaging and Systems (EPEPS), 2014 IEEE 23rd Conference on, Portland, OR, 26-29 Oct. 2014. pp. 89-92 (EPEPS Best student paper award)
Paolo Maffezzoni, Bichoy Bahr, Zheng Zhang, Luca Daniel: Analysis and Design of Weakly Coupled LC Oscillator Arrays Based on Phase-Domain Macromodels. IEEE Trans. on CAD of Integrated Circuits and Systems 34(1): 77-85 (2015). (TCAD Popular Paper)
Zheng Zhang, Xiu Yang, Ivan V. Oseledets, George E. Karniadakis, Luca Daniel: Enabling High-Dimensional Hierarchical Uncertainty Quantification by ANOVA and Tensor-Train Decomposition. IEEE Trans. on CAD of Integrated Circuits and Systems 34(1): 63-76 (2015). (TCAD Popular Paper).
Z. Zhang, PhD Thesis (advisee): Uncertainty Quantification for Integrated Circuits and Microelectromechanical Systems (PDF file). (2016 ACM Outstanding Ph.D Dissertation Award in EDA, 2015 MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratory MTL Doctoral Dissertation Seminar Award)
I. Butterworth, J. Seralles, C.S. Mendoza, L. Giancardo, L. Daniel: A wearable physiological hydration monitoring wristband through multi-path non-contact dielectric spectroscopy in the microwave range. IEEE MTT-S 2015 (IMWS-BIO), Taipei, Page(s):60-61 Sep. 2015 (IMWS-BIO Best Student Paper Award
P. Maffezzoni, L. Daniel, N. Shukla, S. Datta, A. Raychowdhury: Modeling and Simulation of Vanadium Dioxide Relaxation Oscillators. IEEE Trans. on Circuits & Systems 62(9):2207-2215 Sep 2015 (TCAS1 Popular Paper)
W. Yu B. Zhang, C. Zhang, H Wang, L. Daniel, “Utilizing Macromodels in Floating Random Walk Based Capacitance Extraction", IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference in Europe, Dresden March 2016. (DATE Best Paper Award)
Z. Zhang, T.-W. Weng, L. Daniel, "A big-data approach to handle process variations: uncertainty quantification by tensor recovery," IEEE Workshop on Signal and Power Integrity, 4 pages, Turin, Italy, May 2016. (SPI Best Paper Award)
J.E.C. Serrallés, A.G. Polimeridis, M.V. Vaidya, G. Haemer, J.K. White, D.K. Sodickson, L. Daniel, R. Lattanzi. “Global Maxwell Tomography: a novel technique for electrical properties mapping without symmetry assumptions or edge artifacts”, ISMRM Singap, May2016. (ISMRM Best Poster Award Finalist Candidate)
Bichoy Bahr, PhD Thesis (advisee): monolithically integrated MEMS resonators and oscillators in standard IC technology. (2016 MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratory MTL Doctoral Dissertation Seminar Award)
More Publications…

Public Domain Open Source Software by our research group at MIT:

FastMaxwell, [by Tarek El-Moselhy] An open-source, full-wave, 3D, electromagnetic solver for efficient extraction of interconnect structures above a substrate. The code is accelerated via the efficient discrete complex image method, efficient full-wave integration routines and an iterative precorrected fast Fourier transform matrix vector product. The code has been tested on a variety of large scale (up to 300,000 unknowns) structures.
Caplet [by YuChung Hsiao] A C++ open source capacitance extraction. Specialized instantiable basis function templates move the computational bottleneck of this integral equation solver from the non-embarrassingly parallelizable matrix solver to the embarrassingly parallelizable matrix setup phase. 90% parallel efficiencies have been demonstrated on tens of cores. “Real-time” capacitance extraction performance (could be used to generate 3D field solver accurate parasitic capacitance values while dragging and stretching wires with the mouse). CAPLET can directly handle GDS2 layout files into capacitance matrices in both GUI and command line interfaces. The internal extraction algorithm is specialized for VLSI interconnect structures but not exclusively, as long as the structure is of Manhattan geometry and embedded in uniform dielectric.
Squid (stable quasiconvex identification) [by Kin Cheong Sou] An open-source matlab tool for the generation of reduced order linear system models from available transfer function data points. The tool is based on a quasi-convex relaxation of a system identification problem subject to stability and passivity constraints.
mmbasic: [by Brad Bond] Basic Moment Matching Tools (Matlab, Octave). A collection of Matlab functions for model reduction of linear systems via moment matching. This is intended as a teaching tool to illustrate how moment matching works.
newton1d: [by Brad Bond] Simple 1-D Newton solver (Matlab, Octave). A simple 1-dimensional Newton solver for Matlab. Plots each linearization as Newton progresses, a useful tool for teaching/learning about Newton's method and when it has trouble converging.
SMORES: [by Brad Bond] Simulation and Model Order Reduction of Electrical Systems. A Matlab circuit simulator that reads spice-like netlists and performs several types of analysis.
Stins (stable identification of nonlinear systems) [Brad Bond], A public domain open source matlab code for generating guaranteed stable compact models of nonlinear analog circuit blocks from input/output data (e.g. low noise amplifiers, mixers, or power amplifiers).
STPWL: [by Brad Bond] Stabilized Trajectory PieceWise Linear model reduction. This is a collection of Matlab functions for generating stable trajectory piecewise linear reduced models for nonlinear systems.
Mems. [by Brad Bond] A set of Matlab functions describing a dynamical system model of a MEMS switch.
SpectralProjector: [by Zheng Zhang] Spectral projector computation, index checking and system decomposition for linear DAEs (or linear time-invariant descriptor systems)
M2VerilogA: [by Zohaib Mahmood] A wrapper class which takes in S-parameter or Z-parameter file in `.snp' touchstone format or .mat file in matlab and generates a compact dynamical model. The code incorporates binary search to find minimum system order for given error bound. The final model is saved in a verilogA file which can be easily interfaced with commercial simulators such as spectre.
DecouplingMatrix_MRI [by Zohaib Mahmood] open source MATLAB code for automated design of a decoupling matrix connected between the power amplifiers and coupled RF arrays. This decoupling matrix mixes the input signals and transforms the impedance to ensure all forward power is delivered to the load
MARIE [by Athanasios Polimeridis and Jorge Villena] - Magnetic Resonance Integral Equation suite. An open source MATLAB code for the electromagnetic analysis of high field MRI problems with realistic human body models, including transmit and receive coil analysis.

Teaching:

MIT Grad. 2.096/6.336/16.910 Introduction to Numerical Simulation (Fall04, Fall05, Fall06, Fall07, Fall08, Fall09, Fall10, Fall11, Fall12, Fall13, Fall14, Fall15).
MIT Grad. 2.097/6.339/16.920 Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations (Fall07, Fall11).
MIT Undergrad. 6.013 Electromagnetics & Applications (Spring10, Spring11, Spring12, Spring13, Spring14, Spring15, Spring16)
MIT Undergrad. 6.003 Signals and Systems (Spring03, Spring04, Spring05, Spring06, Spring07, Spring08, Spring09)
Introduction to Model Order Reduction (MIT: Fall05, Spring06; Univ. Pisa: Summer06, Summer09; PoliTorino: Summer11, Summer12; SkolTech Moscow: January13, Fall13, Fall14, Fall15; PoliMilano: Summer14, Summer15, Summer16; Tsinghua: Summer15; Masdar: January16).
MIT Undergrad. 6.041 Probabilistic Systems Analysis and Applied Probability (Fall03)
UCB Grad. EE219A Computer Aided Verification of Electronic Circuits and Systems (Fall98)

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For questions and comments please write to: luca@mit.edu.

Last Updated Dec 2015