Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 21:15:28 GMT Server: NCSA/1.5.2 Last-modified: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 23:54:52 GMT Content-type: text/html Content-length: 2227 USC Digital Test Laboratory Personnel: Dr. Melvin A. Breuer
Melvin A. Breuer,Charles Lee Powell Professor of Computer Engineering

Dr. Breuer received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and is currently a Professor of both Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and is the Charles Lee Powel Professor of Computer Engineering. He was Chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering-Systems from 1991-1994. His main interests are in the area of computer-aided design for digital computers, design-for-test, built-in self-test and VLSI circuits.

Dr. Breuer is the editor and co-author of Design Automation of Digital Systems: Theory and Techniques, Prentice-Hall; editor of Digital Systems Design Automation: Languages, Simulation and Data Base, Computer Science Press; co-author of Diagnosis and Reliable Design of Digital Systems, Computer Science Press; co-editor of Computer Hardware Description Languages and Their Applications, North-Holland; co-editor and contributor to Knowledge Based Systems for Test and Diagnosis, North-Holland; and is a co-author of Digital System Testing and Testable Design, IEEE Press, 1994. He has published more than 160 technical papers and was editor-in-chief of the Journal of Design Automation and Fault Tolerant Computing, co-editor of the Journal of Digital Systems, and Program Chairman of the Fifth International IFIP Conference on Computer Hardware Description Languages and Their Applications. A Fellow of the IEEE, Dr. Breuer was a Fulbright-Hays scholar (1972). He received the 1991 University of Southern California Associates Award for Creativity in Research and Scholarship, the 1991 University of Southern California School of Engineering Award for Exceptional Service, and the IEEE Computer Society's Taylor L. Booth Award for Education.


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