"Peter" Weiping Shi, Professor

Contact:

333K WERC

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Texas A&M University

College Station, TX 77843-3259

wshi@ee.tamu.edu

(979) 845-3820 (office)

(979) 862-1645 (secretary)

(979) 845-2630 (fax)

Brief Bio:

Prof. Shi received Ph.D. in computer science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1992. He taught at University of North Texas from 1992 to 2000, and have been with Texas A&M University since 2000. He was the founder and chairman of Pextra Corporation, a start-up company specializing in modeling integrated circuits, until its acquisition in 2009 by Mentor Graphics Corporation, a leader in electronic design automation software. During 2009-2010, he was on leave from the university to work as an engineering director at Mentor Graphics, integrating Pextra products into Mentor Graphics flow. The resulting product, Calibre xACT3D, is highly rated and widely adopted by the semiconductor industry. He returned in 2010 to share his knowledge and experience with the students. Prior to Pextra, Prof. Shi worked as a consultant for PDF Solutions on yield analysis and enhancement, and for Cadence Design Systems on layout synthesis.

Teaching:

ELEN 248: Introduction to Digital System Design

ELEN 350: Computer Architecture and Design

ELEN 468: Advanced Logic Design

ELEN 475: Introduction to VLSI Design

ELEN 689: Layout Synthesis of VLSI Circuits

ELEN 689: Modeling and Simulation of VLSI Circuits

ELEN 691: My section numbers are 661 (spring and fall), 161 (summer session I), 261 (summer session II), and 361 (full summer).

Research:

Dr. Shi's research interests are Electronic Design Automation (EDA), Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) and design and analysis of algorithms. His current projects include modeling, layout synthesis, and testing. His research has been founded by National Science Foundation, Semiconductor Research Corporation, ARP/ATP, Texas Instruments, Intel, and IBM. See the list of publications and software.

Students:

VLSI CAD Lab