Email:
Office: Room 2154 (SSE Building)



Research Interests:

  • Open Source EDA for digital ASIC design,
  • Hardware/Software Co-design,
  • Embedded Hardware Design,
  • Embedded (Real-Time) Software,
  • Low Power Computing Systems,
  • Digital Systems Design, and
  • Mobile and Pervasive Computing.

News:

  • Jan 25, 2022: RA positions are available, email Prof. Shalan if you are interested.
  • Jan 13, 2022: Received $37K USD as unrestricted gift from Google to fund the DFFRAM and Automatic Clock Gating projects
  • October 18, 2021: Sarah Hesham received her MSc. in Electronics Engineering from Ain Shams University. Congratulations to Sarah!
  • August 11, 2021: Sarah Hesham presented: "Digital ASIC Implementation of RISC-V: OpenLane and Commercial Approaches in Comparison in 2021 IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems
  • August 1, 2021: Presented OpenLane to the attendees of the Conference for Open Source Coders, Users and Promoters (COSCUP), "The efabless Caravel project---Chip design, democratized"
  • April 1, 2021: IEEE Design and Test magazine Articles have been published in April 2021 issue.
  • Jan 27, 2021: "Fault: Open Source EDA’s Missing DFT Toolchain," will appear in the IEEE Design and Test Magazine.
  • Jan 27, 2021: "Real Silicon using Open Source EDA," will appear in the IEEE Design and Test Magazine.
  • Jan 8, 2021: Received a $25K USD Gift from Google to fund: DFFRAM, Open-Source Standard Cell Based RAM and Register File Compiler for SKY130.
  • November 30, 2020: N5 SoC was selected for free fabrication under the Google sponsored OpenMPW #1 program
  • November 3, 2020: Presented "Building OpenLANE: "A 130nm OpenROAD-based Tapeout- Proven Flow : Invited Paper," in the 2020 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design.
  • July 28, 2020: FOSSi Foundation Dial-Up talk series: Mohamed Shalan - OpenLane, A Digital ASIC Flow for SkyWater 130nm Open PDK.
  • May 31, 2020 : Presented OpenLANE in CHIPKIT: 2nd Tutorial on Agile Research Test Chips @ISCA’20.