Paul D. Franzon

North Carolina State University, 2410 Campus Shore Drive, MRC 443, Raleigh, NC 27695-7514, United States of America.
Tel: +1 919 515 7351; Fax: +1 919 515 2285
Email: paulf@ncsu.edu
Web: www.ece.ncsu.edu/erl/faculty/paulf.html

Interests

Paul Franzon's teaching and research focuses on building microsystems and nanosystems. He specialises in the following areas: Interconnect Structures and Circuits - high-density, high-speed and low-power on-chip and intra-chip interconnect circuits and structures. Applications that benefit from high bandwidth interconnect, and SOP design techniques; Application Specific Processors and Microsystems - ASICs and SOCs with an emphasis on novel hardware algorithms and design methodology. By "microsystems" I am referring to the design, and incorporation non-chip technologies, such as MEMS ("micromachiinng") and Nanocomputing - concepts for computation beyond the end of CMOS scaling. Includes devices, interconnect structures and circuit/architecture concepts.

Current projects

Micromachined Braille Reader