Mark Horowitz

Director of Computer Systems Laboratory at Stanford University,

Yahoo Founder's Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Mark Horowitz received his BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 1978, and his PhD from Stanford in 1984. Since 1984 he has been a professor at Stanford working in the area of digital integrated circuit design. While at Stanford he has led a number of processor designs including MIPS-X, one of the first processors to include an on-chip instruction cache, Torch, a statically-scheduled, superscalar processor and Flash, a flexible DSM machine. He has also worked in a number of other chip design areas including high-speed memory design, high-bandwidth interfaces, and fast floating point. In 1990 he took leave from Stanford to help start Rambus Inc, a company designing high-bandwidth memory interface technology.

Research Interests

• Circuits Research by Prof. Horowitz's Graduate Students
• FLASH Multiprocessor
• Tiny Tera
• Smart Memory
• 3D Silicon Cameras

Selected Publications and Talks

• CAD
• Circuits
• High-Speed links
• Low Power
• Architecture

Courses

• EE271     Introduction to VLSI Systems
• EE272A  Design Projects in VLSI Systems
• EE272B  Testing and Simulation of VLSI Systems
• EE371     Advanced VLSI Circuit Design

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