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Reconfigurable Fabrics: Evolvable Hardware focusing on self-healing and group testing techniques to extend mission lifetime of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and Field Programmable Analog Arrays (FPAAs).
Deeply-Scaled CMOS Design: Extraction and remodeling of critical paths to optimize energy-delay-product and aging-mitigation in ALU design.
Emerging Logic Devices: Design and modeling of post-CMOS switching devices emphasizing non-Von Neumann logic-in-memory computing approaches.
Performance-Aware Datapaths: Energy and Quality-Aware architectures for signal and image processing.

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