Prof. Carl Sechen

Carl Sechen received the B.E.E. degree from Minnesota and the M.S. degree from M.I.T. In 1986 he received the Ph.D. degree from UC Berkeley. From July 1986 through June 1992 he was an Assistant and then an Associate Professor at Yale University. From July 1992 through August 1999, he was an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington. He is now Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington. His main research interests are in the area of ultra high speed digital circuit design techniques. He has ongoing interests in efficient synthesis and layout techniques for random logic as well as datapath blocks. He was the initial developer of the TimberWolf placement and routing package. Together with William Swartz, he co-founded InternetCAD, a placement and routing software vendor.

Email: sechen@ee.washington.edu
Homepage: http://www.ee.washington.edu/people/faculty/sechen/