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The Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California Santa Cruz was founded in 1997, to meet the increasing demand for highly educated engineering graduates. After nearly seven years, the School of Engineering has grown beyond expectations to over 1000 students, and has won praise from i ndustry and government leaders as the "engineering school of the 21st century." The mission of the B askin School of Engineering at is to develop and sustain first-rate education and research programs that integrate the fundamental principles and sound practice of science and engineering.

Professor Jose Renau leads MASC, the micro-architecture group at University of California, Santa Cruz. MASC group research focusses on computer architecture, including design effort and complexity estimators, chip multi-processors, energy/performance trade-offs, thread level speculation, processors-in-memory, and checkpointed architectures. Prof Renau is the primary contributor and maintainer of the widely-used open-source SESC cycle-accurate architecture simulator.

Prof. Renau's team has enhanced SESC to read SPARC instruction traces in the Sun's open-sourced RST format and has successully simulated a Niagara processor using these traces. Prof. Renau is working on interfacing SESC with other tools released from Sun, including the SAM system simulator. Prof Renau and his students are developing SCOORE, a 4-way superscalar out-of-order SPARC processor that is synthesizable on FPGAS and ASIC, in part by leveraging the tools that we are open-sourcing from Sun.

"We are excited to be part of the OpenSPARC community", said Professor Jose Renau of UCSC's Baskin School of Engineering. "The OpenSPARC RTL Verilog code is a clean implemenation that is easy to understand and the SAM infrastructure included with OpenSPARC is a great full system simulator. We look forward to collaborating with the OpenSPARC community on advanced areas in computer architecture."