IEEE Computer Society Workshop on VLSI
27-28 April, Orlando, Florida
FINAL PROGRAM
Thursday April 27, 2000
Welcome and Opening of the WVLSI'00 (8:00 - 8:30 am)
- System Level Design Methods and Examples - I (8:30 - 10:15 am)
- Mead-Conway VLSI Design Approach and System Design Challenges Ahead
Lynn Conway
University of Michigan
- Alternative Architectures for Video Processing
Wayne Wolf
Princeton University
- PicoRadio: Ad-hoc Wireless Networking of Ubiquitous Low-Energy
Sensor/Monitor Nodes
Jan Rabaey, . Ammer, J. L. da Silva Jr. and D Patel
University of California at Berkeley
Coffee Break
- System Level Design Methods and Examples - II (10:30 am - 12:00 noon)
- A System-Level Approach to Power/Performance
Optimization in Wearable Computers
Asim Smailagic and Dan Siewiorek
Carnegie Mellon University
- Design for Testability
Yervant Zorian
Logic Vision Inc.
- Multilanguage Design of a Robot Arm Controller
G. Nicolescu, P. Coste, F. Hessel, P. LeMarrec, A.A. Jerraya
TIMA-CMP Laboratory, Grenoble, France
Lunch
- Low Power Design (1:00 - 3:00 pm)
- Instruction Scheduling Based on Energy and Performance Constraints
A. Parikh, M. Kandemir, N. Vijaykrishnan and M.J. Irwin
The Pennsylvania State University
- Dynamic Voltage Scaling Techniques for Distributed Microsensor
Networks
Rex Min, Travis Furrer and Anantha Chandrakasan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Reducing Power Consumption in FPGAs with Keeping a High Performance Level
Andres Garcia, Wayne Burleson and Jean Luc Danger
Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, France,
and Univ. of Massachusetts
- Multiple Access Caches: Energy Implications
H.Y. Kim, N. Vijaykrishnan, M. Kandemir and M.J. Irwin
The Pennsylvania State University
Coffee Break
- System Level Design Examples (3:15 - 4:45 pm)
- Architectural Adaptation in AMRM
Rajesh Gupta
University of California at Irvine
- Improved Synchronization Methodologies for High Performance
Digital Systems
Sean Welch and Kevin Kornegay
Cornell University
- Algorithm-Based Low Power VLSI Architecture for 2D-Mesh Video Object Motion Tracking
Wael Badawy and Magdy Bayoumi
University of Louisiana
Break
PANEL: How can Industry and Universities Work Jointly on
System Design Challenges (5:00 - 6:00 pm)
Banquet Dinner (6:15 - 8:00 pm)
Friday April 28, 2000
- Software System Design and Design Environment (8:15 - 9:45 am)
- Specification and Validation of Information Processing Systems by
Process Encapsulation and Symbolic Execution
Wolfgang Bossung, Thomas Geyer, Sorin A. Huss, and Lars Wehmeyer
Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
- Interaction in Language Based System Level Design Using an Advanced
Compiler Generator Environment
I. Poulakis, G. Economakos and P. Tsanakas
National Technical University of Athens, Greece
- On Design-For-Reusability in HDL
Morris Chang, Kagan Agun
Illinois Institute of Technology
Coffee Break
- Analysis and Synthesis of Asynchronous Circuits (10:00 - 11:00 am)
- Fine-Grain Pipelined Asynchronous Adders for High-Speed DSP Applications
Montek Singh and Steven M. Nowick
Columbia University
- A Low-Latency FIFO for Mixed-Clock Systems
Tiberiu Chelcea and Steven M.Nowick
Columbia University
Coffee Break
- Advances in Multiplier Design (11:15 am - 12:15 pm)
- A Reconfigurable Low Energy Multiplier for Multimedia System Design
Suhwan Kim and Marios Papaefthymiou
University of Michigan
- An Algorithmic Approach to Building Datapath Multipliers Using (3,2) Counters
Hesham Al-Twaijry and M. Al-Oqeely
Stanford and King Saud University
Lunch
- Issues in System Design (1:15 - 3:45 pm)
- RT-Level Interconnect Optimization in DSM Regime
Srinivas Katkoori and Stelian Alupoaei
University of South Florida
- An Empirical And Analytical Comparison of Delay Elements
And A New Delay Element Design
Nihar Mahapatra, Sriram Garimella, and Alwin Tareen
SUNY at Buffalo and Seagate Technology
- Validation of Complex Designs Using Hardware Prototyping
Gil Stoler
Intel Corporation
- On-line Error Detection in Multiplexor Based FPGAs
Arunita Jaekel
University of Windsor, Canada
- Diode String ESD Protection Circuit Layout Optimization
Q. Li, T. Li, J.S. Lee, S.M. Kang
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Avant!
Break
PANEL: System Design in University Curricula (4:00 - 5:00 pm)
Concluding Remarks (5:00 - 5:45 pm)