SLIP 2004

Technical Program

 


Day 1: Saturday February 14, 2004

8:30am - 8:40am Welcome: Lou Scheffer, General Chair
8:40am - 10:00am Session 1: Interconnect Analysis for SoCs and Microprocessors
Moderator: Dennis Sylvester

Invited: "Early and Accurate Analysis of SoCs: Oxymoron or Reality?"
Reinaldo A. Bergamaschi, IBM

"Interconnect-power dissipation in a microprocessor"
Nir Magen, Avinoam Kolodny, Uri Weiser, Nachum Shamir, Intel

10:00am - 10:30am Break
10:30am - 12:00pm Session 2: Models and Metrics of Interconnect Performance
Moderator: Lou Scheffer

"Self-consistent Power/Performance/Reliability Analysis for Copper Interconnects"
Bipin Rajendran, Pawan Kapur, Krishna C. Saraswat, R. Fabian W. Pease, Stanford University

"Investigation of Performance Metrics for Interconnect Stack Architectures"
Puneet Gupta, Andrew B. Kahng, Youngmin Kim, Dennis Sylvester University of California San Diego and University of Michigan Ann Arbor

"Investigating the frequency dependence elements of CMOS RFIC Interconnects for physical modeling" Beng Hwee Ong, Choon Beng Sia, Kiat Seng Yeo, Jian-Guo Ma, Manh Anh Do, Er Ping Li, Nanyang Technological University

12:30pm - 2:00pm Lunch
2:00pm - 3:30pm Session 3: Interconnect Design and Optimization
Moderator: Martijn Bennebroek

"Interconnect Width Selection for Deep Submicron Designs using the Table Lookup Method"
Mandeep Bamal, Evelyn Grossar, Michele Stucchi, Karen Maex, SPDT Interuniversity Microelectronics Center (IMEC)

"A Low Power Approach to System Level Pipelined Interconnect Design"
Vikas Chandra, Anthony Xu, Herman Schmit, Carnegie Mellon University

"Topology Optimization for Application-Specific Networks-on-Chip"
Tapani Ahonen, David A. Siguenza-Tortosa, Jari Nurmi, Tampere University of Technology

3:30pm - 4:00pm Break
4:00pm - 6:00pm Session 4: Interconnect in Communication Networks
Moderator: Mike Hutton

Invited: "Evolution as the blind engineer: wiring minimization in the brain"
Dmitri Chklovskii, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

"A 2-slot Time-Division Multiplexing (TDM) Interconnect Network for Gigascale Integration (GSI)"
Ajay Joshi, Jeff Davis Georgia Institute of Technology

"NoCIC: A Spice-based Interconnect Planning Tool Emphasizing Aggressive On-Chip Interconnect Circuit Methods"
Vishak Venkatraman, Andrew Laffely, Jinwook Jang, Hempraveen Kukkamalla, Zhi Zhu, Wayne Burleson, University of Massachussetts





Day 2: Sunday, February 15, 2004

8:30am - 10:00am Session 5: Unconventional Interconnects
Moderator: Dirk Stroobandt

Invited: "Optical solutions for system-level interconnect"
Ian O'Connor, Ecole Centrale de Lyon

"Defect Tolerance for Nanocomputer Architecture"
Arvind Kumar, Cornell University

10:00am - 10:30am Break
10:30am - 12:00pm Session 6: Statistical Interconnect Prediction
Moderator: Joni Dambre

"Prediction of Interconnect Adjacency Distribution: Derivation, Validation, and Applications"
Payman Zarkesh-Ha, Ken Doniger, William Loh, Peter Bendix, Interconnect Modeling Group, LSI Logic

"Prediction of Interconnect Net-degree Distribution Based on Rent's Rule"
Tao Wan, Malgorzata Chrzanowska-Jeske, Portland State University

"A statistical model for estimating the effect of process variations on crosstalk noise"
Maurizio Martina, Guido Masera, Politecnico di Torino

12:00pm - 12:10pm Closing


12:10pm - 2:00pm Lunch


2:00pm - Group visit to the "Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie"



 

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