SUNDAY | ASYNC | . |
| 5:00-7:00pm |
Registration |
Guest House. |
| 7:00-9:00pm |
Welcome Reception |
Guest House |
MONDAY | ASYNC | Huntsman Cancer Institute |
| 8:10-8:20 |
Welcome |
Chris Myers |
| 8:20-8:30 |
Best paper nominations |
Steve Nowick |
| 8:30-9:30 |
Invited Session 1 |
Chair: Mark Greenstreet |
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Asynchronous Design and the Pursuit of Low Power |
Bill Athas |
| 9:30-10:00 |
Break |
Huntsman Cancer Institute |
| 10:00-11:30 |
Paper Session 1: Systems/Arithmetic |
Chair: Mark Renaudin |
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"Exploiting Typical DSP Data Access Patterns and Asynchrony for a Low Power Multiported Register Bank" |
M.Lewis, L.Brackenbury |
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A Low-Power Self-Timed Viterbi Decoder |
P.A. Riocreux, L.E.M. Brackenbury, M. Cumpstey, S.B. Furber |
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A Multi-Radix Approach to Asynchronous Division |
Gianluca Cornetta and Jordi Cortadella |
| 11:30-1:00 |
Lunch |
Huntsman Cancer Institute |
| 1:00-2:30 |
Paper Session 2: Experiments |
Chair: Ken Stevens |
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A Practical Comparision of Asynchronous Design Styles |
D>W Lloyd & J.D. Garside |
| (Best paper nominee) |
GasP: A Minimal FIFO Control |
Ivan Sutherland and Scott Fairbanks |
| (Best paper nominee) |
PCA-1: A Fully Asynchronous Self-Reconfigurable LSI |
Ryusuke Konishi, Hideyuki Ito, Hiroshi Nakada, Akira Nagoya, Kiyoshi Oguri, Norbert Imlig, Tsunemichi Shiozawa, Minoru Inamori, and Kouichi Nagami |
| 2:30-3:00 |
Break |
Huntsman Cancer Institute |
| 3:00-4:00 |
Paper Session 3: Synthesis and Verification |
Chair: Peter Beerel |
| (Best paper nominee) |
Efficient Exact Two-Level Hazard-Free Logic Minimization |
Chris Myers, Hans Jacobson |
| (Best paper nominee) |
Partial-Order Correctness-Preserving Properties of Delay-Insensitive Circuits |
Robert Berks, Radu Negulescu |
| 4:00-5:00 |
Paper Session 4: Handshaking |
Chair: Peter Hofstee |
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Synchronous Handshake Circuits |
Ad Peeters
Kees van Berkel |
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An Analysis of Reshuffled Handshaking Expansions |
Rajit Manohar |
TUESDAY | ASYNC | Huntsman Cancer Institute |
| 8:30-10:00 |
Paper Session 5: Communication |
Chair: Jo Ebergen |
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Designing an Asynchronous Bus Interface |
Joep Kessels, Ad Peeters, Torsten Kramer, Markus Feuser, Klaus Ully |
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Delay Insensitive System-on-Chip Interconnect using 1-of-4 Data Encoding |
W.J.Bainbridge, S.B.Furber |
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Synthesis and implementation of a signal-type asynchronous data communication mechanism |
A. Yakovlev, F. Xia, D. Shang |
| 10:00-10:30 |
Break |
Huntsman Cancer Institute |
| 10:30-11:30 |
Invited Session 2 |
Chair: Ad Peeterst |
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Where are the Async Millionaires? What the Async community needs to do. |
Kevin Normoyle |
| 11:30-1:00 |
Lunch |
Huntsman Cancer Institute |
| 1:00-3:00 |
Paper Session 6: Architecture |
Chair: Simon Moore |
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An Asynchronous Superscalar Architecture for Exploiting Instruction-Level Parallelism |
Tony Werner
Venkatesh Akella |
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AMULET3i Cache Architecture |
Daranee Hormdee
James Garside |
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Performance evaluation of Cascade ALU architecture for asynchronous super-scalar processors |
Motokazu Ozawa, Masashi Imai, Yoichiro Ueno, Hiroshi Nakamura, Takashi Nanya |
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FLEETzero: An Asynchronous Switch Fabric Chip Experiment |
William S. Coates, Jon K. Lexau, Ian W. Jones, Scott M. Fairbanks, and Ivan E. Sutherland |
| 3:00-3:30 |
Break |
Huntsman Cancer Institute |
| 3:30-5:00 |
Paper Session 7: Performance Analysis and Optimization |
Chair: Oriol Roig |
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Designing Fast Asynchronous Circuits |
Ivan Sutherland and Jon Lexau |
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Squaring the FIFO in GasP |
Jo Ebergen |
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How To Achieve Worst-Case Performance |
Mark Greenstreet and Brian de Alwis |
| 7:00-9:00pm |
Theseus Reception/Demo Session |
Guest House |
WEDNESDAY | ASYNC/ARVLSI | Huntsman Cancer Institute |
| 8:15-8:30 |
Welcome |
Erik Brunvand |
| 8:30-9:30 |
Invited Session 3 |
Chair: Erik Brunvand |
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Testing Asynchronous Circuits: Help is on the Way! |
Ajay Khoche |
| 9:30-10:00 |
Break |
Huntsman Cancer Institute |
| 10:00-11:30 |
Paper Session 1: Asynchronous VLSI |
Chair: Wendy Belluomini |
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Building a Distributed Asynchronous Control Unit Through Automatic Derivation of Hierarchically Decomposed AFSMs from a CDFG |
Euiseok Kim, Jeong-Gun Lee, Dong-Ik Lee |
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Precise Exceptions and Interrupts in Asynchronous Processors |
Rajit Manohar, Mika Nystroem, Alain J. Martin |
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A Low-Power Asynchronous VLSI FIR Filter |
V.A. Bartlett and E. Grass |
| 11:30-12:00 |
Lunch |
Guest House |
| 12:00-6:00 |
Excursion/Ski Trip |
Park City/Canyons |
| 6:00-7:00 |
Reception |
Canyons |
| 7:00-9:00 |
Banquet |
Canyons |
THURSDAY | ARVLSI | Huntsman Cancer Institute |
| 8:30-10:00 |
Paper Session 2: Reduced Energy |
Chair: Jose Tierno |
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Design, Verification, and Test of
A True Single-Phase 8-bit Adiabatic Multiplier |
Suhwan Kim, Conrad H. Ziesler, and Marios C. Papaefthymiou |
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Activity-Sensitive Flip-Flop and Latch Selection for Reduced Energy |
Seongmoo Heo, Ronny Krashinsky, Krste Asanovic |
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Logic Design Considerations for 0.5-Volt CMOS |
K. Joe Hass, Jack Venbrux, Prakash Bhatia |
| 10:00-10:30 |
Break |
Huntsman Cancer Institute |
| 10:30-11:30 |
Invited Session 1 |
Chair: Jim Aylor |
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Low Power Synchronous to Asynchronous to Synchronous Interlocked Pipelined Circuits Operating at 3.3-4.5GHz |
Stanley E. Schuster and Peter W. Cook |
| 11:30-1:00 |
Lunch |
Huntsman Cancer Institute |
| 1:00-2:30 |
Paper Session 3: Signalling |
Chair: Mircea Stan |
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Phantom Mode Signaling in VLSI Systems |
Thad Gabara |
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Dynamic Receiver Biasing For Inter-Chip Communication |
Dr. Claude R Gauthier
Dr. Richard B Brown |
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Width-Adaptive Data Word Architectures |
Rajit Manohar |
| 2:30-3:00 |
Break |
Huntsman Cancer Institute |
| 3:00-5:00 |
Paper Session 4: Analog Circuits |
Chair: Dave Schimmel |
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Analog MAP Decoder for (8, 4) Hamming Code in Subthreshold CMOS |
Chris Winstead, Jie Dai, Woo Jin Kim, Scott Little, Yong-Bin Kim, Chris Myers, Christian Schlegel |
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Programmable and Adaptive Analog Filters using Arrays of Floating-Gate Circuits |
Matt Kucic, Paul Hasler, Jeff Dugger, and David Anderson |
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Dynamic Charge Restoration of Floating Gate Subthreshold MOS Translinear Circuits |
Vincent F. Koosh, Rodney Goodman |
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Analog-Digital Partitioning for
Field-Programmable Mixed-Signal Systems |
Sree Ganesan and Ranga Vemuri |
FRIDAY | ARVLSI | Huntsman Cancer Institute |
| 8:30-10:00 |
Paper Session 5: Arithmetic Circuits |
Chair: Rajit Manohar |
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A Standard-Cell Self-timed Multiplier for Energy and Area Critical Synchronous Systems |
Kip C. Killpack
Eric Mercer
Chris J. Myers |
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Asynchronous Array Multiplier
with an Asymmetric Parallel Array Structure |
Chan-Ho Park, Byung-Soo Choi, Dong-Ik Lee, and Ho-Yong Choi |
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A High-Performance 64-bit Adder
Implemented in Output Prediction Logic |
Sheng Sun,Larry McMurchie, Carl Sechen |
| 10:00-10:30 |
Break |
Huntsman Cancer Institute |
| 10:30-11:30 |
Invited Session 2 |
Chair: Dong-Ik Lee |
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Multiwire Differential Signaling |
John Poulton |
| 11:30-1:00 |
Lunch |
Huntsman Cancer Institute |
| 1:00-2:00 |
Invited Session 3 |
Chair: Rich Brown |
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Focal-Plane Processing of Visual Motion in VLSI |
Reid Harrison |
| 2:00-2:30 |
Break |
Huntsman Cancer Institute |
| 2:30-4:00 |
Paper Session 6: Focal-Plane/Image Computation |
Chair: Reid Harrison |
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Focal-Plane Image and Beam Quality Sensors
for Adaptive Optics |
Marc Cohen, Gert Cauwenberghs,
Mikhail Vorontsov and Gary Carhart |
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Methods and circuits for focal-plane computation
of features in CMOS visual sensors |
Alberto Pesavento and Christof Koch |
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Visual sensor with resolution enhancement by mechanical vibrations |
Oliver Landolt, Ania Mitros, and Christof Koch |
| 4:00-4:15 |
Closing Remarks |
Erik Brunvand |
