Chantal Ykman-Couvreur

Chantal Ykman-Couvreur received the mathematics degree from the Facultes Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix of Namur in 1979. She was with PHILIPS Research Laboratory, Belgium, from 1979 to 1991. Her main activities were concentrated on information theory and coding, cryptography, and multilevel logic synthesis for VLSI circuits. She was responsible for research and development of a new multilevel logical optimization system, Phifact, and based on factorization of Boolean functions. She joined the Inter-university Micro-Electronics Center (IMEC), Heverlee, Belgium, in September 1991 to develop techniques and implement new tools in the Assassin compiler for both specifications and synthesis of asynchronous control circuits. Since 1995, she has been responsible for the dynamic memory management and the system-level design flow in the Matisse compiler.