Here is a summary of what I have done for the past week. 1. Prepared slides for our ICCAD submission on decap budgeting. Did a group presentation on this topic on Tuesday's group meeting. 2. Finalized the TCAD submission for our CMP-related paper. (submitted) 3. Worked on slides for the Micro06 proposal. 4. Finished a submission to TCAD special issue for our buffering paper in ISPD. 5. Discussed with Lerong on our Skewed SSTA project, and we have made some progresses. More details can be found in Lerong's report. -Jinjun