The
10th International Symposium on
Asynchronous Circuits and Systems (ASYNC 2004)
Hersonnisos, Crete, Greece, 19-23 April
2004.
ASYNC
2004
Conference Programme
TUTORIAL DAY - MONDAY, 19th of April :
09:00 - 17:00 Pre-Conference Tutorial
20:00 - 22:00 Welcome Reception
CONFERENCE DAY 1 - TUESDAY, 20th of April :
09:00 - 10:00 Keynote I
Chair: Stephen Unger.
"Synchronous Latency
Insensitive
Design",
Prof. Christer Svensson.
10:00 -
10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:00 Session I : Design and Test
Chair: Montek Singh.
"A Fast and
Energy-Efficient Stack",
J. Ebergen, D. Finchelstein,
R. Kao, J. Lexau and D. Hopkins, Sun
Microsystems Laboratories.
"Static Tokens: Using Dataflow to
Automate Concurrent Pipeline Synthesis",
J. Teifel and R. Manohar, Cornell
University.
"General Testers for Asynchronous
Circuits",
R. Negulescu, McGill University.
12:00 -
14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 Session II : Timing
Chair: Supratik Charkaborty
"High Precision Timing Signals
Using Asynchronous Control Rings",
S. Fairbanks and S. Moore, Cambridge
Univesity.
"Transistor Sizing: How to
Control the Speed and Energy Consumption of a Circuit",
J. Ebergen, J. Gainsley
and P. Cunningham, Sun Microsystems
Laboratories.
"Evaluation of Delay Variance in
Asynchronous Circuits based on the Scalable-Delay-Insensitive Model",
M. Imai, M. Ozcan and
T. Nanya, University of Tokyo.
15:30 -
16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:30 Session III : Asynchronous Designs I
Chair: Steve Furber
"Non-Uniform Access
Asynchronous
Register Files",
D. Fang and R. Manohar, Cornell
University.
"Phase Alignment using
Asynchronous State Machines",
Alireza Kaviani, Xilinx Research Labs.
"High Performance
Asynchronous
ASIC Back-End Design Flow Using Single-Track Full-Buffer Standard Cells",
M. Ferretti, R. Ozdag and
P. Beerel, University of Southern
California.
17:30 - 18:00 Special Add-on
Session : ASYNC Research Funding, Part I
Chair: Ran Ginosar
"12
Years of Support from the European Commission for Asynchronous Circuits
and Systems",
M. B. Josephs, London South Bank University.
20:00 -
23:00 Complimentaty Coctail Evening organised by the Hotel.
CONFERENCE DAY 2 - WEDNESDAY, 21st of April :
09:00 - 10:00 Keynote II
Chair: Christoph Heer
"Contacting Biological Cells with
Electronic Circuits",
Dr. Martin Jenkner.
10:00 -
10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:00 Session IV : Synthesis and Verification
Chair: Mark Josephs
"Bolstering Faith in GasP
Circuits through Formal Verification",
X. Kong and R. Negulescu, McGill
University.
"A General Purpose Behavioural
Asynchronous Synthesis System",
M. Sacker, A. Brown,
P. Wilson and A. Rushton, University
of Southampton.
"Synthesis of Speed
Independent
Circuits based on Decomposition",
T. Yoneda and C. Myers, National
Institute of
Informatics and University of Utah.
12:00 -
13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 14:30 Session V : Synchronization
Chair: Alex Yakovlev
"Handshake Protocols
for
De-Synchronization",
I. Blunno, J. Cortadella, A. Kondratyev, L. Lavagno, K. Lwin and C. Sotiriou,
Politecnico di Torino, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya,
Cadence Berkeley Labs and FORTH-ICS.
"Hiding Synchronization Delays
in GALS Processor Microarchitecture",
G. P. Semeraro, D. H.
Albonesi, G. Magklis, M. L. Scott, S. G. Dropsho and
S. Dwakadas, University of Rochester.
"Data Synchronization
Issues in
GALS SoCs",
R. Dobkin, R. Ginosar and C. Sotiriou,
Technion and FORTH-ICS.
14:30 - 19:30 Tour
of Knossos, followed by Visit and presentation of FORTH-ICS.
19:30 -
23:00 GALA Dinner at AROLITHOS
end
of conference day 2
CONFERENCE DAY 3 - THURSDAY, 22nd of April :
09:00 - 10:00 Keynote III
"Bringing Asynchronous Technology to
the Open Market",
Ad Peeters.
10:00 -
10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:00 Session VI : Asynchronous Design II
Chair: Doug Edwards
"A Channel Based
Asynchronous Low
Power High Performance Standard-Cell Based Sequential Decoder
Implemented with QDI Templates",
R. Ozdag and P. Beerel, University
of Southern California.
"Asynchronous FIR: Toward a New
Digital Chain",
F. Aeschlimann, E.
Allier, L. Fesquet and M. Renaudin, TIMA
Laboratory.
"An Asynchronous,
Iterative
Implementation of the Original Booth Multiplication Algorithm",
A. Efthymiou, W. Suntiamorntut, J. Garside and L. Brackenbury, University of Manchester.
12:00 -
14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 Session VII : High Speed and Pulse Logic
Chair: Jens Sparsø
"High Speed Reduced Stack
Dual-GasP Circuits",
N. Saadallah, X. Kong
and R. Negulescu, McGill University.
"An 8-bit Digital Divider
Implemented in Asynchronous Pulse Logic",
M. Nyström, E. Ou and
A. Martin, California Institute of
Technology and Harvard University.
"Long Wires and
Asynchronous
Control",
R. Ho, R. Drost and J.
Gainsley, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
15:30 -
16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:00 Closing Remarks and Best Paper Awards
17:00 - 17:30 Special Add-on
Session : ASYNC Research Funding, Part II
Chair: Ken Stevens
"CLASS: Clockless
Logic, Analysis, Synthesis and Systems - Reducing the Barrier to
Adoption of Clockless Design",
R. Brees, Boeing.
17:30 Conclusion of the Symposium
end
of conference day 3, dinner on each person's account
EXCURSION DAY - FRIDAY, 23rd of April :
09:00 -
14:00 Visit and tour of the city of Rethymnon
14:30 -
18:00 Visit of and lunch at ENAGRON Traditional Farm