Vaughn Betz

8.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
162 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

Vaughn Betz is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Hardware and Architecture and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Vaughn Betz has authored 162 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 115 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 108 papers in Hardware and Architecture and 39 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Vaughn Betz's work include VLSI and FPGA Design Techniques (75 papers), Low-power high-performance VLSI design (62 papers) and VLSI and Analog Circuit Testing (51 papers). Vaughn Betz is often cited by papers focused on VLSI and FPGA Design Techniques (75 papers), Low-power high-performance VLSI design (62 papers) and VLSI and Analog Circuit Testing (51 papers). Vaughn Betz collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Vaughn Betz's co-authors include Jonathan Rose, Alexander Marquardt, Sadegh Yazdanshenas, Kevin E. Murray, Andrew Boutros, Mohamed S. Abdelfattah, Jason Luu, Lothar Lilge, Henry Wong and Kenneth B. Kent and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the IEEE, Scientific Reports and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.

In The Last Decade

Vaughn Betz

155 papers receiving 4.4k citations

Hit Papers

Architecture and CAD for Deep-Submicron FPGAS 1999 2026 2008 2017 1999 2014 250 500 750
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Architecture and CAD for Deep-Submicron FPGAS
    1999 929 citations Vaughn Betz, Jonathan Rose et al. profile →
  2. VTR 7.0
    2014 282 citations Jason Luu, Jeffrey Goeders et al. ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Vaughn Betz Canada 30 3.6k 3.4k 1.3k 292 271 162 4.6k
Jason Cong United States 40 4.5k 1.2× 3.5k 1.0× 1.4k 1.1× 155 0.5× 300 1.1× 164 5.6k
Sanjay Pant United Kingdom 24 2.8k 0.8× 1.6k 0.5× 424 0.3× 532 1.8× 96 0.4× 66 3.6k
Luigi Carro Brazil 32 2.7k 0.8× 2.8k 0.8× 1.7k 1.3× 229 0.8× 403 1.5× 362 4.1k
Paul Chow Canada 29 1.0k 0.3× 2.0k 0.6× 1.5k 1.2× 103 0.4× 352 1.3× 164 2.8k
Michitaka Kameyama Japan 21 1.1k 0.3× 404 0.1× 195 0.2× 362 1.2× 239 0.9× 296 1.9k
Cheng Zhuo China 25 1.5k 0.4× 443 0.1× 170 0.1× 129 0.4× 328 1.2× 262 2.2k
William Plishker United States 14 254 0.1× 1.2k 0.3× 1.1k 0.8× 101 0.3× 169 0.6× 59 1.8k
Nader Bagherzadeh United States 31 2.2k 0.6× 2.2k 0.6× 2.4k 1.9× 251 0.9× 288 1.1× 325 4.4k
Ahmet T. Erdogan United Kingdom 23 885 0.2× 367 0.1× 498 0.4× 384 1.3× 253 0.9× 206 2.1k
Rakesh Kumar United States 30 2.1k 0.6× 2.8k 0.8× 2.2k 1.7× 154 0.5× 310 1.1× 118 4.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Vaughn Betz

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Vaughn Betz

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Boutros, Andrew, Aman Arora, & Vaughn Betz. (2025). Field-Programmable Gate Array Architecture for Deep Learning: Survey and Future Directions. Proceedings of the IEEE. 113(7). 613–639.
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Murray, Kevin E., et al.. (2025). VTR 9: Open-Source CAD for Fabric and Beyond FPGA Architecture Exploration. ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems. 18(3). 1–53. 1 indexed citations
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Betz, Vaughn, et al.. (2025). Photosensitizer spatial heterogeneity and its impact on personalized interstitial photodynamic therapy treatment planning. Journal of Biomedical Optics. 30(1). 18001–18001. 1 indexed citations
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Arora, Aman, et al.. (2023). Koios 2.0: Open-Source Deep Learning Benchmarks for FPGA Architecture and CAD Research. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems. 42(11). 3895–3909. 12 indexed citations
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Boutros, Andrew, et al.. (2023). High Throughput FPGA-Based Object Detection via Algorithm-Hardware Co-Design. ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems. 17(1). 1–20. 6 indexed citations
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Arora, Aman, et al.. (2022). Tensor Slices: FPGA Building Blocks For The Deep Learning Era. ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems. 15(4). 1–34. 11 indexed citations
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Lilge, Lothar, et al.. (2021). Machine learning for real-time optical property recovery in interstitial photodynamic therapy: a stimulation-based study. Biomedical Optics Express. 12(9). 5401–5401. 16 indexed citations
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Boutros, Andrew, et al.. (2021). End-to-End FPGA-based Object Detection Using Pipelined CNN and Non-Maximum Suppression. 76–82. 10 indexed citations
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Lilge, Lothar, et al.. (2020). Light propagation within N95 filtered face respirators: A simulation study for UVC decontamination. Journal of Biophotonics. 13(12). e202000232–e202000232. 10 indexed citations
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Murray, Kevin E., Jason Luu, Matthew Walker, et al.. (2020). Optimizing FPGA Logic Block Architectures for Arithmetic. IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems. 28(6). 1378–1391. 10 indexed citations
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Murray, Kevin E., Sheng Zhong, & Vaughn Betz. (2020). AIR: A Fast but Lazy Timing-Driven FPGA Router. 338–344. 28 indexed citations
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Tatsumura, Kosuke, Sadegh Yazdanshenas, & Vaughn Betz. (2018). Enhancing FPGAs with Magnetic Tunnel Junction-Based Block RAMs. ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems. 11(1). 1–22. 5 indexed citations
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Trescases, Olivier, et al.. (2018). Automatic Application-Specific Calibration to Enable Dynamic Voltage Scaling in FPGAs. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems. 37(12). 3095–3108. 8 indexed citations
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Betz, Vaughn, et al.. (2018). Frequency-Domain Power Delivery Network Self-Characterization in FPGAs for Improved System Reliability. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. 65(11). 8915–8924. 14 indexed citations
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Lilge, Lothar, et al.. (2018). Optimizing interstitial photodynamic therapy with custom cylindrical diffusers. Journal of Biophotonics. 12(1). e201800153–e201800153. 22 indexed citations
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Betz, Vaughn, et al.. (2017). Robust Self-Calibrated Dynamic Voltage Scaling in FPGAs With Thermal and IR-Drop Compensation. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. 33(10). 8500–8511. 9 indexed citations
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Betz, Vaughn, et al.. (2014). Cad and routing architecture for interposer-based multi-FPGA systems. 75–84. 17 indexed citations
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Murray, Kevin E., et al.. (2013). Titan: Enabling large and complex benchmarks in academic CAD. 1–8. 89 indexed citations
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Betz, Vaughn & Jonathan Rose. (1996). Directional bias and non-uniformity in FPGA global routing architectures. International Conference on Computer Aided Design. 652–659. 48 indexed citations

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