Publications in Refereed Journals

Brief Information about myself:

Hi, greetings, and thanks for dropping by. I am Sadiq, (formally known as Dr. Sait). I am currently a Professor at the Department of Computer Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (a.k.a KFUPM), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. I joined KFUPM in October 1981. I received a BE degree in Electronics Engineering from Bangalore University, India, in 1981, and MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from KFUPM in 1983 and 1987 respectively. My research interests are several, but primarily in the areas of VLSI Design Automation, Iterative Computer Algorithms, Evolutionary Techniques, Information Technology. I am currently the Director of Information Technology Center, (ITC) at KFUPM, Dhahran. I am a Senior member of the IEEE, member of IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE CAS Society.
 

Publications in Refereed Journals

  1. M. Masud and Sadiq M. Sait. `Universal AHPL-A Language For VLSI Design Automation'. IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine, September 1986, pp 8-14.
  2. Sadiq M. Sait and M. A. Kulaib. `A CMOS Cell for Parallelly Loadable Counters'. International Journal of Electronics, Vol. 62, No.6, 1987, pp 867-871.
  3. A. A. Soomro, M. Rahman, and Sadiq M. Sait. `A General Real-Time Decoder Based on AMD2900 Devices'. Journal of Microprocessing and Microprogramming, Volume 22, Issue 2 , Pages 97-113, February 1988. [PDF - abstract only]
  4. A. A. Soomro, Sadiq M. Sait and M. Rahman. `A Bit-Slice Micro-processor Based Decoder'. Journal of Microprocessors and Microsystems, Vol. 11 issue 10, December 1987, pp 527-533. [PDF - Abstract only]
  5. Sadiq M. Sait, A. Y. Yaagoub, and M. Masud. `A CAD Tool for the Automatic Generation of Microprograms for Systems Modeled in UAHPL'. Journal of Microprocessors and Microsystems, October 1988, pp 463-470. [PDF - abstract only]
  6. M. A. Kulaib, G. F. Beckhoff, and Sadiq M. Sait. `Design of a Programmable Length Memory and its Controller'. International Journal of Electronics, Vol. 65, No.2, November 1988, pp 923-932.
  7. Sadiq M. Sait and F. A. Al-Khulaiwi. `Automatic Weinberger Synthesis from a UAHPL Description'. International Journal of Electronics, Vol-69, No.2, 1990, pp 211-224.
  8. Sadiq M. Sait and M. A. Al-Rashed. `An Efficient Algorithm for Weinberger Array Folding'. International Journal of Electronics, Vol-69, No.4, 1990, pp 509-518.
  9. Sadiq M. Sait and A. H. El-Maleh. `A State Machine Synthesizer with Weinberger Arrays'. International Journal of Electronics, 1991, Vol. 71, No.1, pp 1-12.
  10. Sadiq M. Sait. `Integrating UAHPL-DA System with VLSI Design Tools to Support VLSI DA Courses'. IEEE Transactions on Education, Vol. 35, No.4, November 1992, pp 312-320. [PDF]
  11. Sadiq M. Sait. `An Architecture to Store Path History in a Trellis and its Application to the Viterbi Algorithm'. International Journal of Electronics, 1992, Vol. 72, No.1, pp 11-19.
  12. J. Yazdani, M. Masud and Sadiq M. Sait. `PCB Layout Generation from RTL Specifications'. International Journal of Electronics, 1992, Vol. 72, No.1, pp 1-10.
  13. Sadiq M. Sait and M. S. K. Tanvir. `VLSI Layout Generation of a Programmable CRC Chip'. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, November 1993, Vol. 39, No.4, pp 911-916. [PDF]
  14. M. S. T. Benten and Sadiq M. Sait. `GAP: A Genetic Algorithm Approach to Optimize 2-bit Decoder PLAs'. International Journal of Electronics, 1994, Vol. 76, No.1, pp 99-106.
  15. M. S. T. Benten, Sadiq M. Sait, A. S. Al-Mulhem, and H. Youssef. `RTL Structural Synthesis from Behavioral Descriptions in a Unix Environment'. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 19:4B, October 1994, pp 783-803.
  16. Sadiq M. Sait, M. S. T. Benten, H. Youssef, and F. Soleja. `Automated VHDL Composition from AHPL'. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 19:4B, October 1994, pp 771-782.
  17. M. S. T. Benten and Sadiq M. Sait. `Genetic scheduling of task graphs'. International Journal of Electronics, 1994. Vol. 77, No.4, pp 401-415.
  18. Sadiq M. Sait and W. Hasan. `Hardware Design and VLSI implementation of a Byte-Wise CRC Generator Chip'. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, Vol. 41, No.1, February 1995, pp 195-200. [PDF]
  19. Sadiq M. Sait, M. S. T Benten, and A. M. T Khan. `ASIC Design with UAHPL'. IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine, March 1995, pp 14-24. [PDF]
  20. Sadiq M. Sait and A. A. Khalid. `VLSI Design and Implementation of Systolic Queues'. Journal of Microprocessors and Microsystems, April 1995, Vol. 19, No.3, pp 139-146. [PDF - abstract only]
  21. H. M. Alnuweiri and Sadiq M. Sait. `Efficient Network Folding Techniques for Routing Permutations in VLSI'. IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) Systems, June 1995, pp 254-263. [PDF]
  22. Sadiq M. Sait, K. Elleithy and M. Hasan. `Formal Synthesis of VLSI Layouts from Algorithmic Specifications'. International Journal of Computer Systems: Science and Engineering, UK, Vol. 11, Number 2, March 1996, pp 67-81.)
  23. H. Youssef, Sadiq M. Sait, A. S. Al-Mulhem, and M. S. T. Benten. `High-level Synthesis from Purely Behavioral Descriptions'. International Journal of Computer Systems: Science and Engineering, UK, Vol. 11, Number 5, 1996. September 1996, pp 125-139.
  24. Sadiq M. Sait, Shahid Ali, and M. S. T Benten. `Scheduling and Allocation in High-level Synthesis using Stochastic Techniques'. Microelectronics Journal, Elsevier Science Ltd, North Holland, Vol. 27, No. 8, November 1996, pp 693-712. [PDF - abstract only]
  25. Sadiq M. Sait and H. Youssef. `Timing Influenced General Cell Genetic Floorplanner', Microelectronics Journal, Elsevier Science Ltd, North Holland, Vol. 28, No. 2, February 1997, pp 151-166. [PDF - abstract only]
  26. Sadiq M. Sait, A. A. Farooqui, G. F. Beckhoff. `The Architecture of a Highly Reconfigurable RISC Data Flow Array (DF-RISC-A) Processor'. International Journal of Electronics, Vol. 83, No.4, August 1997. pp 493-518.
  27. Sadiq M. Sait and Talal Maghrabi. `Component Selection and Pipelining using Stochastic Evolution Algorithm'. (Manuscript Submitted) Journal of Computers & Electrical Engineering.
  28. Sadiq M. Sait and Habib Youssef. `CMOS/BiCMOS mixed design using Tabu Search'. IEE Electronics Letters, Vol. 34, No. 14, 1998, pp 1395-1396. [PDF]
  29. H. Youssef, Sadiq M. Sait, and K. Al-Farra. `Timing Influenced Constraint Graph Based Force-Directed Floorplanning'. Manuscript accepted by INTEGRATION, the VLSI Journal, 1999.
  30. Sadiq M. Sait, A. A. Farooqui, G. F. Beckhoff. `A Novel Technique for Fast Multiplication', International Journal of Electronics, Vol. 86, No.1, pp 67-77, January 1999.
  31. Sadiq M. Sait, H. Youssef, K. W. Nassar, and M. S. T. Benten. Timing Driven Genetic Placement', International Journal of Computer Systems: Science and Engineering, Vol. 14 No 1 January 1999, pp 3-14.
  32. H. Youssef and Sadiq M. Sait. `Timing Driven Global Routing for Standard Cell VLSI Design', International Journal of Computer Systems: Science and Engineering, Vol. 14, No 3, May 1999, pp 175-186.
  33. H. Youssef, Sadiq M. Sait and Hakim Adiche. `Evolutionary Algorithms, Simulated Annealing, and Tabu Search: A Comparative Study,' Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, IFAC, Pergamon, Vol. 14, No 2, pages 167-181, April 2001. [PDF]
  34. Habib Youssef, Sadiq M. Sait, E. Shragowitz, and H. Adiche. ``Fuzzy Genetic Algorithm for Floorplanning'', Engineering Intelligent Systems, CRL Publishing Ltd, UK, Vol. 8, No. 3, September 2000, pp 145-153. [PDF - abstract only]
  35. Hasan Cam, Mostafa Abd-El-Barr, and Sadiq M. Sait. `Design and Analysis of a High-Performance Hardware-Efficient Memory Allocation Technique'. The Journal of Systems and Software, June 2000 (Submitted). [???]
  36. Sadiq M. Sait, H. Youssef, H. Barada, and Ahmed Al-Yamani. "Parallelizing Tabu Search on a Cluster of Heterogeneous Workstations'', Journal of Heuristics, Special Issue on Parallel Metaheuristics, Vol. 8, Number 3, pages 277-304, May 2002. [PDF]
  37. H. Youssef, Abdulaziz Al-Mulhem, Sadiq M. Sait, M. Atif Khan. "QoS-Driven Multicast Tree Generation Using Tabu Search", The Computer Communications Journal on Advances in Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunications Networking (Special Issue). Elsevier Science Ltd, Vol. 25 issue 11-12, July 2002, pp 1140-1149. [PDF]

  38. Habib Youssef, Sadiq M. Sait, Salman A. Khan, "Topology Design of Switched Enterprise Networks Using Fuzzy Simulated Evolution Algorithm'', Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence Elsevier Science Ltd, June-August 2002, 15/3-4 pp. 327-340. [PDF]

  39. Sadiq M. Sait and Munir M. Zahra. "Tabu Search Based Circuit Optimization'', Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence Elsevier Science Ltd, June-August 2002, Volume/Issue 15/3-4 pp. 357-368. [PDF]
  40. Hassan Barada, Sadiq M. Sait and Naved Baig, "A Simulated Evolution Approach to Task Matching and Scheduling in Heterogeneous Computing Environments", Engineering Applications to Artificial Intelligence, Elsevier Science Ltd., September 2002, Vol. 15, pp 491-500. [PDF]
  41. Habib Youssef, Sadiq M. Sait, and Hussain Ali. `Fuzzy Simulated Evolution Algorithm for VLSI Placement', Computers & Industrial Engineering, Volume 44, Issue 2, pages 227-247, February 2003. [PDF] 
  42. Sadiq M. Sait and Junaid A. Khan, "Simulated Evolution for Timing & Low-Power VLSI Standard Cell Placement", Engineering Applications to Artificial Intelligence (EAAI), Vol. 16, August-September 2003, pages 407-423. [PDF]
  43. Sadiq M. Sait, Khalid M. Al-Tawil, and Syed Ali Hussain, "E-Commerce in Saudi Arabia: Adoption and Perspectives", Australian Journal of Information  (AJIS) Systems, Vol. 12 (1), pages 54-74, September 2004. [PDF]
  44. H. Youssef, Sadiq M. Sait, and Salman Khan. "A Fuzzy Evolutionary Algorithm for Topology Design of Campus Networks". Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering (AJSE), Vol. 29 - No. 2B, October 2004. [PDF]
  45. Aiman Al-Maleh, Sadiq M. Sait and S. Z. Shazli. "Evolutionary Algorithms for State Justification in Sequential Automatic Test Pattern Generation", (Submitted to) Engineering Intelligent Systems for Electrical Engineering and Communications, Vol. 13, No. 1, pages 15-21, March 2005. [PDF]
  46. Sadiq M. Sait, and Mahmood R. Minhas, "SimE/TS fuzzy hybrid for multiobjective VLSI placement", Electronics Letters, Volume 42, Issue 6, 16 March 2006 Pages):364 - 365. [PDF]
  47. Sadiq M. Sait, Aiman H. El-Maleh and Raslan H. Al-Abaji, "Evolutionary algorithms for VLSI multi-objective Netlist partitioning", Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI), Volume 19, Issue 3 , April 2006, Pages 257-268. [pdf]
  48. Sadiq M. Sait and Junaid A. Khan, "Fast Fuzzy Force-Directed Simulated Evolution metaheuristic for Multiobjective VLSI cell placement", Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering (Submitted June 2006). [pdf]
  49. Sadiq M. Sait, Marwan H. Abu-Amara, Abdul Subhan, "Designing Cellular Mobile Networks Using Non-Deterministic Iterative Heuristics", Submitted to Journal of Applied Soft Computing, October 2006. [pdf]
  50. Aiman H. El-Maleh, S. Saqib Khursheed, and Sadiq M. Sait, "Efficient Static Compaction Techniques for Sequential Circuits Based on Reverse-Order Restoration and Test Relaxation", IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Vol. 25, issue 11, pages 2556-2564 November 2006. [PDF]
  51. Umair F. Siddiqui and Sadiq M. Sait, "A Method to Parallelize Lookup Table (LUT) Method for Inverse Halftoning and its Hardware Implementation", Arabian Journal of Science and Engineering (AJSE), Submitted December 2006. [pdf]
  52. Sadiq M. Sait, Khalid M. Al-Tawil, Syed Sanaullah, and Mohammed Faheemuddin, "Impact of Internet Usage in Saudi Arabia: A Social Perspective", International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering (IJITWE), Vol. 1, Issue 4, Dec 2006. [pdf]

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