Welcome to the UC Santa Cruz VLSI Design Automation (VLSI-DA) group web page. VLSI-DA was founded at UC Santa Cruz in Fall 2007. It is currently a small, but fast growing group. The primary research focus of the group is on physical and timing-driven design. Often, this involves writing Computer-Aided Design (CAD) tools for large-scale circuit optimization. Topics being investigated include design for variability, thermal-aware design, and error tolerant circuit design.