Rahul Kumar

Bio/CV: 

High-speed parallel die-to-die interconnects and composable analog/mixed-signal generator frameworks

Generators are a key component in enabling analog/mixed-signal design automation, reuse, and optimization. Existing generator frameworks suffer from being tightly integrated with commercial tools, having performance limitations, and being difficult to customize to circuits that require different styles of layout. We are developing Substrate, a new framework for writing analog and mixed-signal generators. Substrate offers high performance, strongly-typed APIs, and a wide set of utilities for schematic entry, layout entry, and functional verification. We are aiming to apply Substrate to building components for a UCIe compliant die-to-die serial link between chiplets.

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Expected Graduation Date:

May, 2026

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Publications

Vikram Jain; Hasan Nazim Genc; Coleman Hooper; Minh Nguyen; Rahul Kumar; Rohan Kumar; Di Wang; Kevin Anderson; Yufeng Chi; Shengjun Kris Dong; Dima Nikiforov; Bob Zhou; Borivoje Nikolić; Sophia Shao
Conference Paper, 2026
Ethan Gao; Jasmine Angle; Lucy Revina; Jacob Leigh; Wenda Darwin Zhang; Naichen Zhao; Tushar Goyal; Michael McCulloch; Jonathan Wang; John Lomax; Jessica Fan; Mihai Tudor; Rachel Lowe; Ted Kim; Kevin He; Nico Castaneda; Anto Kam; Rahul Kumar; Rohan Kumar; Felicity Aktan; Connor Dang; Shichen Qiao; Joshua Lin; Andy Chen; Minh Nguyen; Vedang Joshi; Bryan Ngo; Ella Schwarz; Ken Ho; Viansa Schmulbach; Nikhil Jha; Yufeng Chi; Jerry Zhao; Borivoje Nikolić
Conference Paper, 2025