Behnam Amelifard's Publications

Theses

  1. "Power efficient design of SRAM arrays and optimal design of signal and power distribution networks in VLSI circuits," Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Southern California, 2007. [pdf]
  2. "Power optimization of VLSI circuits using dual supply voltages," M.Sc. Thesis, University of Tehran, 2003.
  3. "A comprehensive study on one way functions in cryptography systems," B.Sc. Thesis, Sharif University of Technology, 2001.

Patents

  1. Farzan Fallah, Behnam Amelifard, and Massoud Pedram, "PG-gated data retention technique for reducing leakage in memory cells," US Patent 7,447,101, 2008.
  2. Farzan Fallah, Behnam Amelifard, and Massoud Pedram, "Setting one or more delays of one or more cells in a memory block to improve one or more characteristics of the memory block," U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 11/673,245, Filed February 9, 2007

Journal Papers

  1. Behnam Amelifard and Massoud Pedram, "Optimal design of the power delivery network for multiple voltage-island system-on-chips," IEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Vol. 28, No.6, Jun. 2009, pp. 888-900. [pdf]
  2. Behnam Amelifard, Farzan Fallah, and Massoud Pedram, "Low-power fanout optimization using mutli threshold voltages and multi channel lengths," IEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Vol. 28, No. 4, Apr. 2009, pp. 478-489. [pdf]
  3. Behnam Amelifard, Farzan Fallah, and Massoud Pedram, "Leakage minimization of SRAM cells in a dual-Vt and dual-Tox technology," IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, Vol. 16, No.7, Jul. 2008, pp. 851-860. [pdf]
  4. Behnam Amelifard, Farzan Fallah, and Massoud Pedram, "Robust low leakage SRAM design using a PG-gated data retention technique," submitted to IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems.

Conference Papers

  1. Mohammad Ghasemazar, Behnam Amelifard, and Massoud Pedram, "A mathematical solution to power optimal pipeline design by utilizing soft edge flip-flops," in Proc. of IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), 2008 (Honorable Mention Award). [pdf]
  2. Behnam Amelifard, Hanif Fatemi, Safar Hatami, and Massoud Pedram, "A current source model for CMOS logic cells considering multiple input switching and stack effect," in Proc. of IEEE/ACM Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), 2008. [pdf]
  3. Hamed Abrishami, Safar Hatami, Behnam Amelifard, and Massoud Pedram, "NBTI-aware flip-flop characterization and design," in Proc. of ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, 2008. [pdf]
  4. Hanif Fatemi, Behnam Amelifard, and Massoud Pedram, "Power optimal MTCMOS repeater insertion for global buses," in Proc. of IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), 2007. [pdf]
  5. Behnam Amelifard and Massoud Pedram, "Design of an efficient power delivery network in an SoC to enable dynamic power management," in Proc. of IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), 2007. [pdf]
  6. Behnam Amelifard and Massoud Pedram, "Optimal selection of voltage regulator modules in a power delivery network," in Proc. of IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2007. [pdf]
  7. Behnam Amelifard, Farzan Fallah, and Massoud Pedram, "Low-power fanout optimization using MTCMOS and multi-Vt techniques," in Proc. of IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), 2006. [pdf]
  8. Behnam Amelifard, Farzan Fallah, and Massoud Pedram, "Reducing the sub-threshold and gate-tunneling leakage of SRAM cells using dual-Vt and dual-Tox assignment," in Proc. of IEEE/ACM Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), 2006. [pdf]
  9. Behnam Amelifard, Farzan Fallah, and Massoud Pedram, "Low-leakage SRAM design with dual Vt transistors," in Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), 2006. [pdf]
  10. Behnam Amelifard, Farzan Fallah, and Massoud Pedram, "Low-power fanout optimization using multiple threshold voltage inverters," in Proc. of IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), 2005. [pdf]
  11. Behnam Amelifard, Farzan Fallah, and Massoud Pedram, "Closing the gap between carry select adder and ripple carry adder: a new class of low-power high-performance adders," in Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), 2005. [pdf]
  12. Behnam Amelifard, Ali Afzali-Kusha, and Ahmad Khademzadeh, "Enhancing the efficiency of cluster voltage scaling for low-power application," in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2005. [pdf]
  13. Ali Abbasian, Mohammad Taherzadeh-Sani, Behnam Amelifard, and Ali Afzali-Kusha, "Modeling of Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (MOS) transistors based on genetic algorithm and simulated annealing," in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2005. [pdf]
  14. Yasser Ghanbari, Mohammad Reza Karami-Mollaei, and Behnam Amelifard, "Improved multi-band spectral subtraction method for speech enhancement," in Proc. Signal and Image Processing Conference (SIP), 2004.
  15. Mohammad Taherzadeh-Sani, Ali Abbasian, Behnam Amelifard, and Ali Afzali-Kusha, "MOS compact I-V modeling with variable accuracy based on genetic algorithm and simulated annealing", in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM), 2004.
  16. Mohammad Taherzadeh-Sani, Hossein Iman-Eini, Behnam Amelifard, Mohammad Farazian, Ali Afzali-Kusha, and Mehrdad Nourani, "A simple yet accurate analytical method for reducing CMOS gates to equivalent inverters," in Proc. of IEEE Southwest Symposium on Mixed-Signal Design (SSMSD), 2003.
  17. Mohhammad Taherzadeh-Sani, Behnam Amelifard, Hossein Iman-Eini, Farzan Farbiz, Ali Afzali-Kusha, and Mehrdad Nourani, "Power and delay estimation of CMOS inverters using fully analytical approach," in Proc. of IEEE Southwest Symposium on Mixed-Signal Design (SSMSD), 2003.
  18. Hossein Iman-Eini, Mohammad Taherzadeh-Sani, Behnam Amelifard, and Ali Afzali-Kusha, "Reducing CMOS gates to equivalent inverters based on modified n-th Power law MOSFET model," in Proc. of 11th Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE), 2003.
  19. Behnam Amelifard, Mohammad Taherzadeh, Hossein Iman-Eini, and Ali Afzali-Kusha, "Delay and power estimation of CMOS inverters," in Proc. of 11th Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering (ICEE), 2003.

Technical reports

  1. "Power estimation techniques for digital integrated circuits," University of Tehran, 2002.
  2. "A feasibility study on Semiconductor technologies," University of Tehran, 2002.
  3. "A feasibility study on Flat Panel Display technologies," University of Tehran, 2001.
  4. "Design of a Magnetic Levitation system," Sharif University of Technology, 2001.