The Benes network consists of back-to-back butterflies. There exist a number of topological representations that are used to describe butterfly like architectures. We identify a new topological representation of Benes network. The significance of this representation is demonstrated by solving two problems, one related to VLSI layout and the other related to robotics. An important VLSI layout ne...

This paper browses through some well-known meta-heuristic search strategies, and briefly discusses some of their recent applications to the VLSI layout design process. It starts with very brief description of the different phases of VLSI layout design, and a brief overview of Meta-Heuristic search strategies. Since most of the VLSI layout design problems are hard optimization problems, the conc...

An analog VLSI circuit model of the vocal tract is described. The vocal tract is acoustically modeled as a series of uniform cross-section tubes concatenated end-to-end. Each section of tube is modeled as an RLC circuit whose element values are determined by its area and length with the current and voltage corresponding to volume velocity and pressure in the tube. An analog VLSI circuit is desc...