Rhett Davis

Biography

Dr. Davis came to NC State in 2002 as an Assistant Professor and became an Associate Professor in 2008. He received the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award in 2007. He received the Distinguished Service Award from the Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2) in 2012 for his research in the development of standards for electronic design automation (EDA) and his development of the FreePDK open-source, predictive process design kit. He has been an IEEE member since 1993 and became a Senior Member in 2011. He has published over 50 scholarly journal and conference articles. He has worked briefly at Hewlett-Packard (now Agilent) in Boeblingen, Germany and consulted for Chameleon Systems, Qualcomm, and BEECube.

Dr. Davis' research is centered on developing methodologies, CAD tools, and circuits for systems-on-chip in emerging technologies. His interests include 3DIC design and low-power and high-performance circuit design for digital signal-processing and embedded systems.

Education

• Ph.D. 2002
  Electrical Engineering
  University of California, Berkeley
• Master's 1997
  Electrical Engineering
  University of California, Berkeley
• Bachelor's 1994
  Electrical Engineering
  North Carolina State University, Raleigh

Recent Publications

• A Virtual Platform for Object Detection Systems (2021)
• An Instruction-Level Power and Energy Model for the Rocket Chip Generator (2021)
• Bridging the Organization Gap for EDA Machine Learning Data (2021)
• Fast and Accurate PPA Modeling with Transfer Learning (2021)
• Fast and Accurate PPA Modeling with Transfer Learning (2021)
• FreePDK3: A Novel PDK for Physical Verification at the 3nm Node (2021)
• System-Level Power Analysis with IEEE 2416 Power Models (2021)
• UPM/IEEE 2416 Power Modeling Standard: A Practitioner’s Perspective (2021)
• Views from the Cloud (2021)
• A Gentle Introduction to the Open Model Interface for Reliability Simulations (2020)

Involvement

• Silicon Integration Initiative
  Technical and Education Advisor

Awards & Honors