I.            Research projects carried out at UAE University

 

Project Title

Type

Duration

Capacity

Development of Intelligent Sensors for Environmental

Applications in UAE

Sponsored by UAEU

1999-2000

Principal Investigator

Development of Integrated Micro-electronic Heavy Metal Sensors for Environmental Applications in UAE

Sponsored by UAEU

2000-2001

Principal Investigator

A  Contention-Free Domino Logic For Scaled-Down CMOS Technologies With Ultra Low Threshold Voltages*

Unsponsored

1998-1999

Principal Investigator

Split-Gate Logic Circuits for Multi-Threshold Voltage Technologies*

Unsponsored

1998-1999

Principal Investigator

Fully Digital Clock Recovery Circuits for NRZ Source-Synchronous Serial Data communications

Unsponsored

1999-2001

Principal Investigator

* Part of this work was done in collaboration with the VLSI research group at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario,

CANADA during the summer of 1999 where I was a visiting research professor.

 

 

II.            Research projects carried out at KFUPM

 

Project Title

Type

Duration

Capacity

Novel Low-Power Noise Tolerant CMOS Logic Circuits

Unsponsored

2001-2003

Principal Investigator

Imprecise Computing

Unsponsored

2003-2005

Principal Investigator

All-Digital Clock Recovery Circuits for NRZ Source-Synchronous Serial Data communications

Sponsored by KFUPM

2004-2006

Principal Investigator

Using the On-Chip Advantage in Designing Networks-On-Chip

Sponsored by SABIC/Fast Track

2005-2006

Co-Investigator

Developing a Network-On-Chip for Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs)

Sponsored by KFUPM

2007-2010

Principal Investigator
Transistor-Level Defect Tolerant Digital System Design at the Nanoscale

Sponsored by KFUPM

2007-2009

 Co-Investigator
Water Leakage and Contamination Detection in KSA (Joint project with MIT)

Sponsored by KFUPM

2008-2010

 Co-Investigator

Developing A Prototyping Platform for Digital Integrated Circuit Development and Characterization: The On-Chip Tester

 KACST 2010-2012 Principal Investigator

Developing a multi-core architecture

 NSTIP 2009-2011 Co- Investigator
Defect Tolerant Logic Unsponsored 2013-2015 Co- Investigator
A Hybrid SW/HW Approach for Architectural Modelling and Simulation of Many Core CMPs NSTIP 2013-2017 Principal Investigator
FPGA Virtualization: Cloud-Based FPGA Custom Computing Machines Unsponsored 2013-2018 Principal Investigator
Securing users' data in the cloud using FPGAs Unsponsored 2013-2018 Principal Investigator
NoC Simulation and Modeling using FPGAs Unsponsored 2015-2017 Principal Investigator
Using FPGAs to Accelerate HPC Applications ARAMCO 2018-2020 Principal Investigator

* An on-going project

III.          Books

1.    M. S. Elrabaa, I. S. Abu-Khater, and M. I. Elmasry, "Advanced Low-Power Digital Circuit Techniques" Kluwer Academic Publications, 1997.

 

 

IV.          Referred Journal Papers

  1. Muhammad E. S. Elrabaa, M. Al-Asli, and M. Abu-Amara, "SECURE COMPUTING ENCLAVES USING FPGAs," IEEE  TRANSACTIONS ON DEPENDABLE AND SECURE COMPUTING, DOI 10.1109/TDSC.2019.2933214, August 2019.
  2. Muhammad E. S. Elrabaa, M. Al-Asli, and M. Abu-Amara, "A Protection and Pay-per-use Licensing Scheme for On-cloud FPGA Circuit IPs," ACM Transaction on Reconfigurable  Technology and Systems, Vol. 12, No. 3, Article 13, August 2019.
  3. Amran A. Al-Aghbari, and Muhammad E. S. Elrabaa, “Cloud-Based FPGA Custom Computing Machines for Streaming Applications,” Accepted for Publication in IEEE Journal Access, March 16th, 2019.
  4. M. Al-Asli, Muhammad E. S. Elrabaa, and M. Abu-Amara, "FPGA-Based Symmetric Re-Encryption Scheme to Secure Data Processing for Cloud-Integrated Internet of Things," IEEE Internet of Things Journal, DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2018.2864513, August 2018.
  5. Amran Al-Aghbari and Muhammad E.S. Elrabaa, "A platform for FPGA virtualization in clouds and data centers, " Elsevier Microprocessors and Microsystems journal, Vol. 62, pp. 61-72, October 2018.
  6. Gamil A. Ahmed and Muhammad E.S. Elrabaa, "FBNoC: FPGA-based network on chip emulator for full-system architectural simulation of many-core systems," Elsevier Microprocessors and Microsystems journal, Vol. 61, pp. 72-85, September 2018.
  7. Muhammad E. S. Elrabaa, Ayman A. Hroub, Muhamed F. Mudawar, Amran Al-Aghbari, Mohammed Al-Asli, and Ahmad Khayyat, “A Very Fast Trace-Driven Simulation Platform for Chip-Multiprocessors Architectural Explorations,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2017.2713782, June 2017.
  8. Ayman A. Hroub, Muhammad E. S. Elrabaa, Muhamed F. Mudawar, and Ahmad Khayyat, “Efficient Generation of Compact Execution Traces for Multi-Core Architectural Simulations,” ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), Vol. 14, No. 3, Article # 27, DOI: 10.1145/3106342, September 2017.
  9. Muhammad E.S.Elrabaa, AmranAl-Aghbari, MohammadAl-Asli, AimanEl-Maleh, Abdelhafid Bouhraoua, and Mohammad Alshayeb, "A low-cost platform for the prototyping and characterization of digital circuit IPs," INTEGRATION, the VLSI journal, Elsevier, Vol. l54, pp. 1–9, 2016.
  10. Ahmad T. Sheikh, Aiman H. El-Maleh, Muhammad E. S. Elrabaa, and Sadiq Sait, "A Fault Tolerance Technique for Combinational Circuits Based on Selective-Transistor Redundancy", IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, No. 99, pp. 1-4, May 2016.
  11. MOHAMMAD ALSHAYEB, MUHAMMAD E. S. ELRABAA, AYMAN HROUB, AMRAN AL-AGHBARI, AIMAN H. EL-MALEH, AND ABDELHAFID BOUHRAOUA, "TOWARDS A TEST DEFINITION LANGUAGE FOR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS,"  Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers, Vol. 24, No. 3 (2015) 
  12. Muhammad E. S. Elrabaa, and A. Bouhraoua, "BUFFER ENGINEERING FOR MODIFIED FAT TREE NOCS FOR MANY-CORE SYSTEMS-ON-CHIP," Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers, Vol. 23, No. 7 (2014)
  13. Muhammad E. S. Elrabaa, "A Portable High-Frequency Digitally Controlled Oscillator (DCO)," Elsevier Integration, the VLSI Journal, 2013, DOI: 10.1016/j.vlsi.2013.10.009.
  14. Muhammad E. S. Elrabaa, "A new FIFO for transferring data between two unrelated clock domains," International Journal of Electronics, Vol. 99, No. 8, August 2012, pp. 1063-1074.
  15. Muhammad E. S. Elrabaa, "Robust Two-Phase RZ Asynchronous SoC Interconnects," IEEE Trans. On VLSI Systems, Vol. 19, No.6, June 2011, pp. 1086-1089.
  16. M. Elrabaa and A. Bouhraoua, "Hardwired NoC Infrastructure for Embedded Systems on FPGAs," Microprocessors and Microsystems Journal, Special Issue on Network-on-Chip Architectures and Design Methodologies, Elsveir, Vol. 35, No. 2, (March 2011), pp.200-216.
  17. A. Bouhraoua and M. Elrabaa, "IMPROVED MODIFIED FAT-TREE TOPOLOGY NETWORK-ON-CHIP", Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers, Vol. 20, No. 4 (June 2011), pp. 757-780.

  18.  Muhammad E. S. Elrabaa, "Portable Clock Recovery Circuits (CRCs) For On-Chip and Off-Chip Serial Data Communication," Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering (AJSE), pp. 109-117, December issue, 2007.

  19. A. Bouhraoua and Muhammad E. S. Elrabaa, "An Efficient Network-ON-Chip Architecture Based on Fat-Tree (FT) Topology," Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering (AJSE) ), pp. 13-26, December issue, 2007.

  20. Muhammad E. S. Elrabaa, "A New Static Differential CMOS Logic with Superior Low Power Performance," Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 183-190, May 2005.

  21. Muhammad E. S. Elrabaa, "An All-Digital Clock Recovery and Data Retiming Circuitry for High Speed NRZ Data Communications," Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (Japan) Transactions on Electronics, Vol. E85-C, No. 5, P. 1170, May, 2002.

  22. Muhammad E. S. Elrabaa, Mohab Anis, and ohamed Elmasry, "A Contention-Free DOMINO Logic For Scaled-Down CMOS," Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (Japan) Transactions on Electronics, TVol. E85-C, No. 5, P. 1177, May, 2002.

  23. M. S. Elrabaa, M. I. Elmasry, and D. S. Malhi, "Low-Power BiCMOS Circuits for High-Speed Interchip Communication," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,  vol. 32, PP. 604-609, April 1997.

  24. M. S. Elrabaa, M. Obrecht, and M. I. Elmasry, "Novel Low-power Low-voltage  Full Swing BiCMOS Circuits," IEEE Journal of solid-state Circuits, vol. 29,  PP. 86-94, Feb 1994.  

  25. M. S. Elrabaa and M. I. Elmasry, "Design and Optimization of Buffer Chains and Logic Circuits in a BiCMOS Environment," IEEE Journal of solid-state Circuits, vol. 27,  PP. 792-801, May 1992.  

  26. M. S. Elrabaa and M. I. Elmasry, "Multi-Emitter BiCMOS CML Circuits," IEEE Journal of solid-state Circuits, vol. 27,  PP. 454-458, March 1992.

 

 

 V.            Referred Technical Conference Papers

 

  1. Muhammad E. S. Elrabaa, "A portable high-frequency digitally controlled oscillator (DCO),” Proc. 23rd ACM International conference on Great lakes symposium on VLSI, pp. 77-82, France, May 2013.

  2. Muhammad E. S. Elrabaa, A. Al-Aghbari, and M. Al-Asli, “A low-cost method for test and speed characterization of digital integrated circuit prototypes,” 2nd Saudi Int. Elect., Comm. and Phot.. Conf. (SIECPC'13), pp. 1-5, 2013, Riyadh, KSA.

  3. Muhammad E. S. Elrabaa, “A New FIFO design Enabling Fully-Synchronous On-Chip Data Communication Network”, first Saudi International Electronics, Communications and Electronics Conference (SIECPC'11), pp. 1-6, 2011, Riyadh, KSA.

  4. A. Bouhraoua and M. Elrabaa, "A New Client Interface Architecture for the Modified Fat Tree (MFT) Network-on-Chip (NoC) Topology," Proc. (Workshop on Reconfigurable Systems-on-Chip) ReCoSoC, May 2010, Germany.

  5. A. Bouhraoua, O. Diraneyya and M. Elrabaa, "A Simplified Router Architecture for the Modified Fat Tree Network-on-Chip Topology", Proc. NORCHIP 2009, pp. 1-4, Norway.

  6. Muhammad E. S. Elrabaa, “A Two-Phase Return-to-Zero (RZ) Asynchronous Transceiver Circuit for Pipe-Lined SoC Interconnects” Proc. Int. Symp. For System-on-Chip (SOC08), pp. 102-105, Tampere, Finland, Nov. 2008.

  7. A. Bouhraoua and Muhammad E. S. Elrabaa, "Addressing Heterogeneous Bandwidth Requirements in Modified Fat-Tree Networks on Chips," Proc. 4th IEEE International Symposium on Electronic Design, Test & Applications (DELTA 2008), pp. 486-490, January 2008, Hong Kong.

  8. Muhammad E. S. Elrabaa, “An All-Digital Clock Frequency Capturing Circuitry For NRZ Data Communications,” Proc.13th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS 2006), pp. 106-109, Dec. 2006, Nice, France

  9. Muhammad E. S. Elrabaa, “A Portable Clock Recovery Circuit (CRC) For Systems-On-Chip Serial Data Communication,” Proc. International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM06), pp. 198-201, Dec. 2006, Dhahran.

  10. Muhammad E. S. Elrabaa, “A Digital Clock Re-Timing Circuit for On-Chip Source-Synchronous Serial Links,” Proc. International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM06), pp. 206-209, Dec. 2006, Dhahran.

  11. A. Bouhraoua and Muhammad E. S. Elrabaa, “An Efficient Network-on-Chip Architecture Based on Modified Bidirectional Multi-Stage Interconnection Network (MIN) Topology,” Proc. International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM06), pp. 28-31, Dec. 2006, Dhahran.

  12. A. Bouhraoua and Muhammad E. S. Elrabaa, “A High-Throughput Network-on-Chip Architecture for Systems-on-Chip Interconnect,” Proc. of the International Symposium on System-on-Chip (SOC06), pp. 1-4, November 2006, Tampere, Finland.

  13. Muhammad E. S. Elrabaa, “A New Static Differential CMOS Logic With Superior Low Power Performance,” Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems, Dec. 2003.

  14. Muhammad E. S. Elrabaa, “ REVIEW OF HIGH-SPEED DIGITAL CMOS CIRCUITS,” Proceedings of the 6th Saudi Engineering Conference, Dhahran, Dec. 2002.

  15. Muhammad E. S. Elrabaa and M. I. Elmasry, “Split-Gate Logic Circuits for Multi-Threshold Technologies,” International Symp. On Cir. And Systems (ISCAS’01), Sydney, Australia.

  16. M. E. S. Elrabaa, M. I. Elmasry, and M. H. Anis, “Contention-Free Domino Logic for scaled down CMOS Technologies with Ultra Low Threshold Voltages,” The 2000 International Symp. On Cir.  And Systems, Geneva, Switzerland.

  17. Muhammad E. S. Elrabaa, M. I. Elmasry, and D. S. Malhi, "A Universal 3.3V 1GHz BiCMOS Transceiver (Driver/Receiver)," Proc. of the IEEE Bipolar /BiCMOS Circ. and Tech. Meeting, PP. 118-120, Minnesota, 1995.

  18. Muhammad E. S. Elrabaa and M. I. Elmasry, "Low-Power Circuit Techniques for High-Speed ECL SRAMs," Proc. of the 21st European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), France, 1995.

  19. Muhammad E. S. Elrabaa and M. I. Elmasry, "Optimization of Digital BiCMOS Circuits, An Overview," An Invited Tutorial, Proc. of the 35th Midwest Symp. On Circuits and Systems, pp. 571-574, 1992.

  

VII.       Educational, Counseling, Advising and Skills Conference Proceedings & Seminars

 

1.      Gave a seminar titled “Design of Digital BiCMOS Logic Gates,” in the 1992 CMC (Canadian Microelectronics Corp.) VLSI Workshop in Kingston Ontario.

2.      Gave a seminar titled “Design of Digital BiCMOS and ECL Standard Cell Liberary for CADENCE Design Environment,” in the 1993 CMC (Canadian Microelectronics Corp.) VLSI Workshop in Kingston Ontario.

3.      Gave a seminar titled “Design of Full-Swing BiCMOS Buffers,” in the 1994 ITRC (Ontario Center of Excellence Annual Meeting

4.   Gave a seminar titled "Assigning Letter Grades Based on Clustering: A Relative Grading Approach ," in 2005 for the workshop Grading Practices in KFUPM.

5.   Gave a seminar titled "Design of VLSI Integrated Circuits," three times between 2002 and 2004 for a workshop for gifted High School Students.

6.   Gave a seminar titled "Introducing Multi-Phase Design into a Junior-Level Course," in 2006 in the 1st KFUPM Workshop on Engineering Design.

      7.   Gave a seminar titled "Product Development: A Short Guide," several times for Senior Computer Engineering students at KFUPM

             between 2001 and 2004.