Kenneth Y. Yun


Office: 4402 Engineering Building Unit 1

Mailing Address:
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
9500 Gilman Drive, Mail Code 0407
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0407

Email: kyy@paradise.ucsd.edu
Phone: (858) 534-6365
Fax: (858) 534-0415

Ph.D. Stanford University, 1994

Computer Engineering
Professor Yun joined the faculty at UC San Diego in 1994. Following his Master's degree at MIT in 1985, he joined TRW as a member of the technical start, where he had designed numerous high performance signal processors for spaceborne and tactical applications. In 1990, he )oined Hitachi Micro Systems as a senior design engineer to investigate the next generation microprocessor emulator architecture.

Research Interests

Synthesis, verification, and analysis of mixed-timed digital VLSI circuits and systems: design methodologies and tools; applications to ultra-high performance processor design and high-speed networking.

Current Research

The synthesis, verification, and analysis of niixed-timed VLSI designs: in particular, interface design methodologies and tools to facilitate Ultra High-Speed communications between synchronous modules operating at different clock frequencies and between synchronous and asynchronous modules and between asynchronous and asynchronous modules.


Honors and Distinctions
  • First Presidential Award, Hitachi Micro Systems, 1991

    Selected Publications

    K. Y. Yun, B. Lin, D. L. Dill, and S.Devadas, "Performance-Driven Synthesis of Asynchronous Controllers," in Proceedings of the 1994 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design, pp. 550-557, IEEE Computer Society, 1994, San Jose, CA. November 6- 1 0.

    K.Y. Yun and D. L. Dill, "Unifying Synchronous/ Asynchronous State Machine Synthesis," in Proceedings of the 1993 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design pp. 255-260, IEEE Computer Society, 1993. Santa Clara, CA. November 7-1 1.

    K.Y. Yun, D. L. Dill, and S. M. Nowick, "Practical Generalizations of Asynchronous State Machines," in Proceedings of the European Conference on Design Automation with The European Event in ASIC Design, pp. 525-530, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1993. Paris, France, February 22-25.

    Last Updated: 5/3/97