Yibo Chen, SRC student at Penn State, received the best paper award at the 2011 International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED) held in Fukuoka, Japan. The paper was co-authored with SRC liaison Dr. Eren Kursun, and her colleagues at IBM. Research presented in the paper is in part supported by GRC research, 1792 - Statistical Behavioral Level Synthesis for Nanometor VLSI Chips, and 1986 - ADAMS: Architecture and Design Automation for 3D Multi-core Systems.

Mr. Chen will be presenting a paper at TECHCON 2011 on Tuesday, September 13 as part of Session 10a: Design and Test of 3D Circuits. His paper is entitled "Cost-Effective Integration of Three-Dimensional (3D) ICs Emphasizing Testing Cost Analysis". Visit the TECHCON home page for more information on attending the conference and to read Mr. Chen's abstract and 4-page paper.