VLSI Research Group Publications and Talks

2008

• G. Garreton, " Multi-threading in Electric, a Java VLSI CAD Tool, " Java User Group Presentation, Universidad Andres Bello, Chile May 2008.
• T. Ono, G. Garreton, "Research in Industrial Labs: How Collaboration Aids Innovation, (RealMedia video) (QuickTime video) , " CAHSI (Computing Alliance of Hispanic-Serving Institutions) Lecture, March 2008.
• T. Ono, G. Garreton, "Research in Industrial Labs: How Collaboration Aids Innovation (slides), " CAHSI (Computing Alliance of Hispanic-Serving Institutions) Lecture, March 2008.
• A. Chow, D. Hopkins, R. Drost, R. Ho, "Exploiting capacitance in high-performance computer systems," to appear at IEEE VLSI-Design, Automation, and Test, April 2008.
• R. Ho, T. Ono, F. Liu, R. Hopkins, A. Chow, J. Schauer, R. Drost, "High-speed and low-energy capacitively-driven wires," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 43, Issue 1, Jan. 2008, pp. 52-60.

2007

• J. Owens, W. Dally, R. Ho, D. Jayasimha, S. Keckler, L-S. Peh, "Research challenges for on-chip interconnection networks," IEEE Micro, Vol. 27, Issue 5, September-October 2007, pp. 96-108.
• A. Chow, R. Hopkins, R. Ho, R. Drost, " Measuring 6D chip alignment in multi-chip packages," 6th Annual IEEE Conference on Sensors, October 2007, pp. 1307-1310. (Slides)
• D. Patil, O. Azizi, M. Horowitz, R. Ho, R. Anantharaman, "Robust energy-efficient adder topologies," 18th IEEE Symposium on Computer Arithmetic, June 2007, pp. 16-28.
• J. Lexau, X. Zheng, J. Bergey, A. Krishnamoorthy, R. Ho, R. Drost, J. Cunningham, "CMOS integration of capacitive, optical, and electrical interconnects," 10th IEEE Int'l Interconnect Technology Conference, June 2007, pp. 78-80.
• X. Zheng, J. Lexau, J. Bergey, J. Cunningham, R. Ho, R. Drost, A. Krishnamoorthy, "Optical transceiver chips based on co-integration of capacitively-coupled proximity interconnects and VCSELs," IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 19, Number 7, April 2007, pp. 453-455.
• J. Ebergen, S. Furber, A. Saifhashemi, "Notes on pulse signaling," 13th IEEE International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems, March 2007, pp. 15-24. (Slides)
• F. Liu, R. Ho, R. Drost, "On-chip samplers for test and debug of asynchronous circuits," 13th IEEE International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems, March 2007, pp. 153-62. (Slides)
• A. Chow, W. Coates, R. Hopkins, "A configurable asynchronous pseudorandom bit sequence generator," IEEE International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems, March 2007, pp. 143-152. (Slides)
• R. Ho, T. Ono, F. Liu, R. Hopkins, A. Chow, J. Schauer, R. Drost, "High-speed and low-energy capacitively-driven wires," Digest of Technical Papers, IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, February 2007, pp. 412-3.
• R. Hopkins, A. Chow, R. Bosnyak, B. Coates, J. Ebergen, S. Fairbanks, J. Gainsley, R. Ho, J. Lexau, F. Liu, T. Ono, J. Schauer, I. Sutherland, R. Drost, "Circuit techniques to enable 430 Gb/s/mm2 Proximity Communication," Digest of Technical Papers, IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, February 2007, pp. 368-9.

2006

• T. Ono, G. Garreton, "Research in industrial labs: How collaboration aids innovation," Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, October 2006. (Slides)
• J. Ebergen, A. Chow, B. Coates, J. Schauer, R. Hopkins, "An asynchronous high-throughput control circuit for proximity communication," 12th International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems, March 2006. (Slides)

2005

• R. Drost, C. Forrest, B. Guenin, R. Ho, A. Krishnamoorthy,D. Cohen, J. Cunningham, B. Tourancheau, A. Zingher, A. Chow, G. Lauterbach, I. Sutherland, "Challenges in Building a Flat-Bandwidth Memory Hierarchy for a Large-Scale Computer with Proximity Communication," 13th Annual IEEE Symposium on High Performance Interconnects, August 2005. (Slides)
• G. Garreton, "Electric, a VLSI CAD framework using Java technology," Invited talk, Dept. of Computer Science, Catholic University, Santiago, Chile, May 2005. (Slides)
• R. Ho, "Technology Scaling and the Future of Interconnect," Invited talk, 7th IEEE Int'l Workshop on System Level Interconnect Prediction, April 2005. (Slides)
• R. Drost, I. Sutherland, "Proximity communication and time," IEEE International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems, March 2005, pp. xii. (Slides)
• J. Ebergen, J. Gainsley, J. Lexau, I. Sutherland, "GasP control for domino circuits," IEEE International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems, March 2005, pp. 12-22. (Slides)

2004

• J. Ebergen, I. Sutherland, A. Chakraborty, "New division algorithms by digit recurrence," 38th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Nov. 2004, pp. 1849-55. (Slides)
• R. Drost, B. Wooley, "An 8-Gb/s/pin simultaneously bidirectional transceiver in 0.35-um CMOS," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 39, Issue 11, Nov. 2004, pp. 1894-1908.
• J. Ebergen, "Circuits without clocks: What makes them tick?" Invited talk, System-on-Chip Conference (SOC2004), November 2004. (Slides)
• R. Drost, R. Hopkins, R. Ho, I. Sutherland, "Proximity Communication," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 39, Number 9, September 2004, pp. 1529-36.
• A. Krishnamoorthy, D. Huang, T. Sze, R. Drost, R. Ho, H. Davidson, R. Lytel, "Challenges and potentials for multiterabit-per-second optical transceivers," Digest of the LEOS Summer Topical Meetings, Biophotonics/Optical Interconnects and VLSI Photonics/WMB Microcavities, June 2004, pp. 28-30.
• J. Ebergen, J. Gainsley, P. Cunningham, "Transistor sizing: how to control the speed and energy consumption of a circuit," IEEE International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems, April 2004, pp. 51-61. (Slides)
• J. Ebergen, D. Finchelstein, R. Kao, J. Lexau, R. Hopkins, "A fast and energy-efficient stack," IEEE International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems, April 2004, pp. 7-16. (Slides)
• R. Ho, R. Drost, J. Gainsley, "Long Wires and Asynchronous Control," Digest of Technical Papers, IEEE International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems, April 2004, pp. 240-9. (Slides)
• R. Drost, R. Ho, R. Hopkins, I. Sutherland, "Electronic Alignment for Proximity Communication," Digest of Technical Papers, IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, February 2004, pp. 144-5.

2003

• J. Ebergen, "Circuits without a clock: what makes them tick?" Keynote presentation at the Int'l Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems, December 2003. (Slides)
• D. Harris, I. Sutherland, "Logical effort of carry propagate adders," 37th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, November 2003, pp. 873-878.
• R. Drost, R. Hopkins, I. Sutherland, "Proximity Communication," Proceedings, IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, September 2003, pp. 469-472.
• I. Sutherland, "Sketchpad: A man-machine graphical communication system (Archival reprint edition of Sutherland's 1963 MIT Ph.D. Thesis, with a new forward by A. Blackwell and K. Rodden)," University of Cambridge Technical Report UCAM-CL-TR-574, September 2003.
• J. Ebergen, "Circuits without a clock: what makes them tick?" Sun ONEDay 03 presentation, June 2003. (Slides)
• H. Hatamkhani, K.-L. Wong, R. Drost, C.-K. Yang, "A 10-mW 3.6-Gbps I/O transmitter," IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits, June 2003, pp. 97-98.
• W. Coates, R. Drost, "Congestion and starvation detection in ripple FIFOs," IEEE International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems, May 2003, pp. 36-45. (Slides)

2002

• I. Sutherland, J. Ebergen, "Computers without clocks," Scientific American, November 2002, pp. 62-69.
• G. Konstadinidis, K. Normoyle, S. Wong, S. Bhutani, H. Stuimer, T. Johnson, A. Smith, D. Cheung, F. Romano, S. Yu, S. Oh, V. Melamed, S. Narayanan, D. Bunsey, C. Khieu; K.J. Wu, R. Schmitt, A. Dumlao, M. Sutera, J. Chau, K.J. Lin, W. Coates, "Implementation of a third-generation 1.1-GHz 64-bit microprocessor," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 37, Issue 11, November 2002, pp. 1461-1469.
• I. Benko, J. Ebergen, "Composing snippets," in Advances in Concurrency and Hardware Design (ACHD). Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes, Computer Science, Vol. 2549, eds. J. Cortadella, A. Yakovlev, and G. Rozenberg. Springer-Verlag, 2002.

2001

• A. Coulthard, J. Gainsley, J. Lexau, I. Sutherland, "The Duchess chips for process-specific wire capacitance characterization," Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Mountain View, CA. Technical Report TR-2001-0100, October 2001.
• W. Coates, J. Lexau, I. Jones, S. Fairbanks, I. Sutherland, "FLEETzero: an asynchronous switching experiment," IEEE International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems, March 2001, pp. 173-182. (Slides)
• J. Ebergen, "Squaring the FIFO in GasP," IEEE International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems, March 2001, pp. 194-205. (Slides)
• I. Sutherland, J. Lexau, "Designing fast asynchronous circuits," IEEE International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems, March 2001, pp. 184-193. (Slides)
• I. Sutherland, S. Fairbanks, "GasP: A minimal FIFO control," IEEE International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems, March 2001, pp. 12-22. (Slides)
• J. Lexau, J. Will, I. Jones, "EM emissions of an asynchronous test chip," Proceedings of the 14th Int'l Zurich Symposium & Technical Exhibition of Electromagnetic Compatibility, February 2001, pp. 579-584. (Slides)
• D. Harris, "Logical Effort Tutorial," IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, February 2001, based on the book by Sutherland, Sproull, and Harris. (Slides)

2000

• P. Shirvani, S. Mitra, J. Ebergen, M. Roncken, "DUDES: a fault abstraction and collapsing framework for asynchronous circuits," Proceedings, Advanced Research in Asynchronous Circuits and Systems, April 2000, pp. 73-82. (Slides)
• I. Benko, J. Ebergen, "Composing snippets," Proceedings, Advanced Research in Asynchronous Circuits and Systems, April 2000, pp. 23-33. (Slides)
• C. Molnar, I. Jones, "Simple circuits that work for complicated reasons," Proceedings, Advanced Research in Asynchronous Circuits and Systems, April 2000, pp. 138-149. (Slides)

1999

• C. Van Berkel, C. Molnar, "Beware the three-way arbiter," IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 34, Issue 6, June 1999, pp. 840-848.
• W. Coates, J. Ebergen, J. Lexau, S. Fairbanks, I. Jones, A. Ridgway, D. Harris, I. Sutherland, "A counterflow pipeline experiment," Proceedings, Advanced Research in Asynchronous Circuits and Systems, April 1999, pp. 161-172. (Slides)
• J. Ebergen, R. Berks, "Response-time properties of linear asynchronous pipelines," Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 87, Issue 2, February 1999, pp. 308-18.
• C. Molnar, I. Jones, W. Coates, J. Lexau, S. Fairbanks, I. Sutherland, "Two FIFO ring performance experiments," Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 87, Issue 2, February 1999, pp. 297-307. (Slides)
• I. Sutherland, B. Sproull, D. Harris, "Logical Effort: Designing Fast CMOS Circuits," Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1999.

1998

• M. Shams, J. Ebergen, M. Elmasry, "Modeling and comparing CMOS implementations of the C-element," IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, Vol. 6, Issue 4, December 1998, pp. 563-7.
• D. Harris, "Logical Effort: Designing for speed on the back of an envelope," Talk given at Stanford University, August 1998, based on the book by Sutherland, Sproull, and Harris. (Slides)
• J. Ebergen, "Circuits without clocks: what makes them tick?" Sun Labs Open House, May 1998. (Slides)
• W. Coates, J. Lexau, I. Jones, S. Fairbanks, I. Sutherland, "A FIFO data switch design experiment," Proceedings, Advanced Research in Asynchronous Circuits and Systems, April 1998, pp. 4-17.
• J. Ebergen, S. Fairbanks, I. Sutherland, "Predicting performance of micropipelines using Charlie diagrams," Proceedings, Advanced Research in Asynchronous Circuits and Systems, April 1998, pp. 238-246. (Slides)

1997

• W. Clark, "FifoSim: A simulation program of rare functionality," Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Mountain View, CA, November 1997. (Execution of FifoSim)
• M. Shams, J. Ebergen, M. Elmasry, "Optimizing CMOS implementations of the C-element," Proceedings, IEEE Int'l Conference on Computer Design, October 1997, pp. 700-705.
• J. Ebergen, R. Berks, "Response time properties of some asynchronous circuits," Proceedings, Advanced Research in Asynchronous Circuits and Systems, April 1997, pp. 76-86.
• C. Molnar, I. Jones, W. Coates, J. Lexau, "A FIFO ring performance experiment," Proceedings, Advanced Research in Asynchronous Circuits and Systems, April 1997, pp. 279-289. (Slides)

1996

• M. Shams, J. Ebergen, M. Elmasry, "A comparison of CMOS implementations of an asynchronous circuits primitive: the C-element," Int'l Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, August 1996, pp. 93-96.
• I. Sutherland, "A view of the task you take: A report to the NRC Commmittee on cryptography," Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Mountain View, CA. Perspectives Series 96-2, August 1996.
• I. Sutherland, "Technology and Courage," Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Mountain View, CA. Perspectives Series 96-1, April 1996.

1995

• C. Molnar, H. Schols, "The design problem SCPP-A," Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Mountain View, CA. Technical Report TR-95-49, December 1995.

1994

• R. Sproull, I. Sutherland, C. Molnar, "The counterflow pipeline processor architecture," IEEE Design and Test of Computers, Vol. 11, Issue 3, Fall 1994, pp. 48. (Slides, and illustrations)

1992

• R. Sproull, I. Sutherland, "A comparison of codebook generation techniques for vector quantization," Data Compression Conference, March 1992, pp. 122-131.

1991

• I. Sutherland, B. Sproull, "Logical Effort: Designing for speed on the back of an envelope," Proceedings of the 1991 University of California Santa Cruz Conference on Advanced Research in VLSI, C. Sequin, ed. MIT Press, 1991, pp. 1-16. (A few slides from 1997)

Publications predating Sun Labs

1989

• K. Frenkel, "An interview with Ivan Sutherland, 1988 Turing Award Recipient," Communications of the ACM, Vol. 32, Issue 6, June 1989, pp. 711-718.
• I. Sutherland, "Micropipelines: Turing Award," Communications of the ACM, Vol. 32, Issue 6, June 1989, pp. 720-738.

1974

• I. Sutherland, "Three-dimensional data input by tablet," Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 62, Issue 4, April 1974, pp. 453-461.
• C. Molnar, W. Clark, W. Papian, "Macromodular Computer Design," Final Report for ARPA Contract SD-302 (vol 1-20), Computer Systems Laboratory, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, February 1974.

1973

• I. Sutherland, D. Oestreicher, "How big should a printed circuit board be?" IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. C-22, Issue 5, May 1973, pp. 537-542.

1969

• I. Sutherland, "A method for solving arbitrary-wall mazes by computer," IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. C-18, Issue 12, December 1969, pp. 1092-1097.

1968

• T. Myer, I. Sutherland, "On the design of display processors," Communications of the ACM, Vol. 11, Number 6, June 1968, pp. 410-415.

1966

• N. Ball, H. Foster, W. Long, I. Sutherland, R. Wigington, "A shared memory computer display system," IEEE Transactions on Electronic Computers, Vol. EC-15, no. 5, October 1966, pp. 750-756.

1963

• [Also listed above in 2003] I. Sutherland, "Sketchpad: A man-machine graphical communication system (Archival reprint edition of Sutherland's 1963 MIT Ph.D. Thesis, with a new forward by A. Blackwell and K. Rodden)," University of Cambridge Technical Report UCAM-CL-TR-574, September 2003.

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