My general research interests lie in the broad area of methods and algorithms for the design of digital integrated circuits and systems. I have contributed to the fields of manufacturing test and post-silicon validation and debug. My recent interests have been expanded to embedded, low-energy and custom hardware-accelerated computing systems.
Did you know?
Dr. Nicolici won the Distinguished Engineering Educator from McMaster University in 2014 and the MSU Teaching Award from McMaster University in 2010.
Nicola Nicolici received the Dipl.Ing. degree in Computer Engineering from the “Politehnica” University of Timisoara, Romania, in 1997 and the Ph.D. degree in Electronics and Computer Science from the University of Southampton, U.K., in 2000. His research interests are in the area of computer-aided design and test for integrated circuits and systems. He has authored over 120 papers in this area.
Dipl. Ing. (“Politehnica” University of Timisoara, Romania) ; Ph.D. (Southampton University, U.K.)
P.Eng.
Distinguished Engineering Educator
Dean’s Teaching Honour Roll for 2 courses – CompEng 3DQ5 and CompEng 4DS4
Awarded an NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement (this prestigious award is in recognition of his outstanding research program in “post-silicon” validation methods for VLSI systems)
Senior Member IEEE
Selected
P.T. Gonciari, B.M. Al-Hashimi, and N. Nicolici (2003)
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CAD, VOL. 31, PAGES 1845-1856
Recent
P. Taatizadeh and N. Nicolici, “Emulation Infrastructure for the Evaluation of Hardware Assertions for Post-Silicon Validation,” IEEE Transactions on VLSI, vol. 25, pages 1866-1880, June 2017
X. Shi and N. Nicolici, “Generating Cyclic-Random Sequences in a Constrained Space for In- System Validation,” IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 65, pages 3676-3686, December 2016
A computer engineering design and implementation project of reasonable complexity to be completed by small groups of students; oral presentations and written reports. Two lectures, one lab, one tutorial/design studio 1 hour, second term Prerequisite(s): COMPENG 2DX4 or 2DX3, COMPENG 3DQ5, ELECENG 3EJ4, 3TP3 Antirequisite(s): COMPENG 3DR4, ELECENG 3EY4 Co-requisite(s): ELECENG 3CL4, 3TR4
Instructor
Dr. Nicola Nicolici
Advanced design methods of digital systems including modelling, simulation, synthesis and verification using hardware description languages, timing analysis and hardware debugging; implementation of computer peripherals in programmable devices. Three lectures, one tutorial, one lab (three hours) every week; first term Prerequisite(s): COMPENG 2DI4 and one of COMPENG 2DP4 or 2DX4 or 2DX3 Students taking this course as an elective must receive the permission of the instructor.
