Reading Material

Theses

• • The Power Of The Half-Adder Form by David R. Lutz

  • Low-power FiNFET circuit design and synthesis under spatial and temporal variability by Prateek Mishra

  • Power - Performance Optimization for Digital Circuits by Radu Zlatanovici

• Novel Algorithms for Fast Statistical Analysis of Scaled Circuits by Amith Singhee

• Large-Scale Variability Characterization and Robust Design Techniques for Nanoscale SRAM by Zheng Guo

• Device and Circuit Techniques for Reducing Variation in Nanoscale SRAM by Andrew Carlson

• Power Delivery and Management in Nanoscale ICs by Inna P. Vaisband

Reports/Papers/Notes

• • Understanding GPU Architecture (Cornell)

  • Binary Adder Design (Classic Papers)

• Hardware algorithms for arithmetic modules

• Computer Arithmetic (PDF)

• Timing Models for MOS Circuits (PDF)

• Statistical Methods For Semiconductor Chip Design (PDF)

• The good, the bad and the statistical (PDF)

• Statistical Static Timing Analysis Technology (PDF)

• Statistical Thinking and Data Analysis (MIT OCW)

• Introduction to ASIC Implementation (UCSD)

• Application Specific Integrated Circuits Design (UT, Dallas)

• VLSI Design (UT, Austin)

• Digital VLSI Design (Bar-Ilan University)

• Hardware for Deep Learning (Bar-Ilan University)

• Logical Effort (UC, Berkeley)

• Current Based Delay Models 

• Components and Design Techniques for Digital Systems (UC, Berkeley)

• VLSI Architecture (Utah)

• Statistical Learning (Stanford)

Free Online Courses 

• MIT OpenCourseWare

• Coursera

• Udacity

• edX

• NPTEL

• Big Data University

eBooks

• O'Reilly's CD bookshelf

• Technical eBooks from IBM

Financial Planning

• • Opportunistic Rebalancing (PDF)

  • A Statistical Comparison of Value Averaging vs. Dollar Cost Averaging and Random Investment Techniques (PDF)

• Financial Planning Association

• Pulling Stock Quotes into Microsoft Excel

• How to Monitor Stock Prices in Microsoft Excel

• Center for Retirement Research