I am Alex Solomatnikov. I graduated with Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, supervised by Professor Mark Horowitz.

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Biography

I am from Kazan, Russia. I got my bachelor and master degrees from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT or PhysTech), Moscow, Russia.

Research

I am interested in computer architecture and VLSI design. At Stanford I worked on Smart Memories project. The goal of the project was to design a reconfigurable chip multiprocessor architecture that has cache coherent, streaming and transactional memory modes as well as hybrid modes.

I worked on multiprocessor simulator and related infrastructure based on Tensilica system. I designed custom extensions for Tensilica processor. I worked on overall architecture, design and verification of 55 million transistor 8-core Smart Memories test chip, fabricated in ST Microelectronics 90 nm CMOS technology.

Smart Memories test chip was ranked 1st in 2009 Design Automation Conference/International Solid State Circuits Conference Student Design Contest.

While working on Smart Memories I spent a lot of time at Tensilica where I worked with Xtensa LX configurable processor system.

Publications and Patents