Yi-Ming Lin (林宜民)

Yi-Ming Lin was born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, in 1980. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.

E-Mail: ymlin@csie.ncku.edu.tw

 

Biography

Yi-Ming Lin received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in the Department of Electronic Engineering, Southern Taiwan University of Technology, Taiwan, in 2003 and 2005, respectively. Since 2005, he has been working toward the Ph.D. degree in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. His research interests include digital integrated circuit (IC) design, intelligence property (IP) design, system-on-chip (SOC) design, and efficient VLSI architecture and implementation for video compression (MPEG-1/2/4 and H.264) and communication system.

 

Publications

Journal Papers

1. Pei-Yin Chen and Yi-Ming Lin, “A Low-Cost CAVLC Encoder,” IEICE Trans. on Electronics, vol. E89-C, no. 12, pp. 1950-1953, Dec. 2006.

2. Pei-Yin Chen and Yi-Ming Lin, “A Low-Cost VLC Implementation for MPEG-4,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits Syst. II, Express Briefs, vol. 54, no. 6, pp. 507-511, June 2007.

3. Pei-Yin Chen, Yi-Ming Lin, and Min-Yi Cho, “An Efficient Design of Variable Length Decoder for MPEG-1/2/4,” IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, vol. 10, no. 7, pp. 1307-1315, Nov. 2008.

4. Pei-Yin Chen, Yi-Ming Lin, Che-Chang Yang, and Shung-Chih Chen, “An Efficient Design of Context Modeler for CABAC Encoder in H.264,” accepted by International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control, Aug. 2009.

 

Conference Papers

1. Yi-Ming Lin and Pei-Yin Chen, “A Low-Cost VLSI Implementation for VLC,” IEEE International Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, ICIEA’06, pp. 1019-1022, May 2006.

2. Yi-Ming Lin and Pei-Yin Chen, “An Efficient Implementation of CAVLC for H.264/AVC,” IEEE International Conference on Innovative Computing, Information and Control, ICICIC’06, pp. 601-604, Aug. 2006.

3. Yi-Ming Lin, Pei-Yin Chen, Chih-Yuan Lien, and Min-Yi Cho, “An Efficient Table-Merging Method for Variable Length Coding,” IEEE International Conference on Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits, EDSSC’07, pp. 1179-1882, Dec. 2007.

4. Pei-Yin Chen, Chih-Yuan Lien, and Yi-Ming Lin, “A Real-Time Image Denoising Chip,” IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS’08, pp. 3390-3393, May 2008.

5. Yi-Ming Lin, Wan-Ching Liu, Li-Yuan Chang, Chih-Yuan Lien, Pei-Yin Chen, and Shung-Chih Chen, “A Low-Power IP Design of Viterbi Decoder with Dynamic Threshold Setting,” accepted by 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, January 2010.

6. Chih-Yuan Lien, Pei-Yin Chen, Li-Yuan Chang and Yi-Ming Lin, “An Efficient Denoising Chip for the Removal of Impulse Noise,” accepted by 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, January 2010.

 

Experience

1. Teaching assistant of undergraduate course, VLSI Design

2. Teaching assistant of undergraduate course, FPGA System Design

3. Teaching assistant of graduate course, Digital IC Design

4. Assistant for paper publication, IEEE TENCON 2007

5. Assistant for paper publication, IEEE ISCAS 2009

 

Honors & Awards

1. Third Prize, Layout Category for Undergraduate Level, Integrated Circuit Design Contest, Ministry of Education, 2003.

2. Session Chair, Industrial Applications, IEEE International Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, 2006.

3. Second Prize, Cell-Based IC Category for Graduate/Undergraduate Level, Integrated Circuit Design Contest, Ministry of Education, 2007.

4. Visiting Scholar, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, 2009-2010.

 

Chip Design

1. A Low-Cost VLC Implementation for MPEG-4

(A) Cell-Based Design

(B) Technology: TSMC 0.18 μm

2. A Low-Cost CAVLC Encoder

(A) Cell-Based Design

(B) Technology: TSMC 0.13 μm

3. A Low-Cost Variable Length Decoder for MPEG-1/2/4 (Tapeout by CIC)

(A) Cell-Based Design

(B) Technology: TSMC 0.18 μm

4. A Parameterized Low Power Convolutional Code Decoder for Wireless Communication Systems (Tapeout by CIC)

(A) Cell-Based Design

(B) Technology: TSMC 0.18 μm

 

Book

1. 陳培殷, 劉明穎, 林宜民, 謝怡伶編著, 數位IC設計入門—Verilog, 滄海書局, 2008. (ISBN 978-986-6889-90-5)

 

Documents

1. Simulation and Verification with Altera FPGA (PDF) (Source Code)

2. Simulation and Verification with Xilinx FPGA (PDF) (Source Code)

 

Other Links

National Cheng Kung University (NCKU)

College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - NCKU

Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering - NCKU

Digital IC Design Laboratory - NCKU

National Chip Implementation Center (CIC)