| Professor Ku is an expert on a broad range of electrical engineering and computer science disciplines, including broadband multimedia, wireless communications, military and naval electronics, and an area of pressing importance : the physical design of integrated circuits. At the advent of the microchip era, transistor switching speeds were the limiting factor in performance. But in today's VLSI era, defined by very large scale ICs packed with millions of high-speed transistors, physical questions, such as interconnect delay (or time wasted propagating signals) are coming to the fore. Ku has been a prolific author on this topic and his work is followed closely by VLSI Circuits designers, VLSI users, IC System Integrators, manufacturers of application specific integrated circuits or ASICS, and other VLSI microchips, and buiilders of computer-aided design/ computer-aided engineering (CAD/CAE) tools.
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