SLIP'08 Technical Program

Saturday, April 5, 2008  

Welcome Message 8:45am - 9:00am

A. Kennings (University of Waterloo)  

Session 1: FPGA Interconnect Modeling and Architetectures 9:00am - 10:00am

Chair: Chair: Avinoam Kolodny (Technion)

Interconnection Lengths and Delays Estimation for Communication Links in FPGAs, Terrence Mak, Pete Sedcole, Peter Y.K. Cheung and Wayne Luk (Imperial College London)

Efficient Tiling Patterns for Reconfigurable Gate Arrays, Sumanta Chaudhuri, Jean-Luc Danger, Philippe Hoogvorst and Sylvain Guilley (ENST Paris and CNRS)

Break 10:00am - 10:30am
 
Session 2:Timing Optimization 10:30am -12:00pm

Chair: Alex Yakovlev ( Newcastle University)

Invited: Timing Optimization in Logic with Interconnect, Arkadiy Morgenshtein, Eby G. Friedman, Ran Ginosar and Avinoam Kolodny (Technion and University of Rochester)

Revisiting Fidelity: A Case of Elmore-based Y-routing Trees, Tuhina Samanta, Prasun Ghosal, Hafizur Rahaman and Parthasarathi Dasgupta ( Bengal Engineering and Science University and Indian Institute of Management Calcutta )

Lunch 12:30pm - 2:00pm
 
Session 3: Multi-Core Architectures 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Chair: Alex Yakovlev ( Newcastle University)

Invited: Multi-core Architectures and Streaming Applications, Gerard J.M. Smit , Andre B.J. Kokkeler, Pascal T. Wolkotte, Marcel van de Burgwal (University of Twente)

Break 3:00pm - 3:30pm
 
Session 4: High-Performance Communication Links 3:30pm - 5:00pm

Chair: Dirk Stroobandt (Ghent University)

Parallel vs. Serial On-Chip Communication, Rostislav Dobkin, Arkadiy Morgenshtein, Avinoam Kolodny and Ran Ginosar (Technion)

Global Interconnections in FPGAs: Modeling and Performance Analysis, Terrence Mak, Crescenzo D'Alessandro, Pete Sedcole, Peter Y.K. Cheung, Alex Yakovlev and Wayne Luk (Imperial College London and Newcastle University)

Circuit and Physical Design of the MDGRAPE-4 On-Chip Network Links, Duraid Madina and Makoto Taiji (Tokyo University and RIKEN)

Dinner 6:00pm - 8:00pm

 

Sunday, April 6, 2007    

Session 5: Interconnect Modeling and Global Routing 9:00am - 10:00am

Chair: Simon Moore ( University of Cambridge)

The Impact of Variability on the Reliability of Long on-chip Interconnect in the Presence of Crosstalk, Basel Halak, Santosh Shedabale, Hiran Ramakrishnan, Alex Yakovlev and Gordon Russell (Newcastle University)

Sidewinder - A Scalable ILP-Based Wire Router, Jin Hu, Jarrod Roy and Igor Markov (University of Michigan)

Break 10:00am -10:30am
 
Session 6: On-Chip Communication 10:30am - 12:00pm

Chair: Ion Mandoiu ( University of Connecticut)

Invited: The Next Resource War: Computation vs. Communication, Simon Moore and Daniel Greenfield(University of Cambridge, UK)

Rent's Rule and Parallel Programs: Characterizing Network Traffic Behavior, Wim Heirman, Joni Dambre, Dirk Stroobandt and Jan Van Campenhout ( Ghent University )

Lunch and Social Event 12:00pm - 6:00pm