Welcometo

Async 2007

Marly RonckenPeter Beerel

Technical Program

• Technical program committee (TPC) – Co-Chairs: Mark Greenstreet (UBC) & Montek Singh (UNC) – 40 members over 11 countries

• Paper review process– Most papers received 5 reviews by TPC members– Additional reviews solicited from outside experts

• Statistics– 53 papers submissions– 18 papers accepted – 34% acceptance ratio

Demo Session

Demonstrator Demo NameSilistix CHAINworks tool chain

Handshake Solutions Handshake Solutions tools and circuits

Fulcrum Microsystems FocalPoint Evaluation Platform

Codetronix Mobius Rapid Development Tools

TimaSecure crypto-processors against power and fault attacks

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

High-Speed Fully-Pipelined GCD Chip

Sun Microsystems Labs Proximity Communication

Intel Corporation GALS Test Chip

Invited Speakers

• Invited Speaker Co-Chairs – Ivan Sutherland (Sun) and Jan Rabaey (UBC)

• Jim Kajiya (Microsoft) - Monday– The future of computer architectures

• Carlo Sequin (UC Berkeley) - Tuesday– Abstract geometric sculptures

• Steve Jacobsen (Sarcos, Inc and UofU) - Banquet– Spectacular robot devices

• Kevin Nowka (IBM Research) - Wednesday– The future world of semiconductor processing

The Social Program

• Monday– Dinner at Chez Panisse (closed) – Founded by Alice Waters and idealistic friends (1971)

• Tuesday Afternoon – San Francisco by Cable Car– Lombard Street, Golden Gate Bridge, and Cable Car Museum

• Tuesday Evening – The Conference Banquet– Steinhart Aquarium - California Academy of Sciences

– Dinner with the fish

• Thursday Option 1 – Alcatraz & Lunch (limited availability)– Operated as a federal penitentiary (1934 to 1963)

– Features in many movies, including “the Rock”

• Thursday Option 2 – Golf at Tilden Park (limited availability)– Beautiful 18-hole golf course

Corporate Sponsors

                              

                         

                            

                          

                   

                                    

             

                                             

                               

        

                                      

        

                          

                         

 

Industrial Co-Chairs: Ken Stevens (Univ. of Utah) & Pascal Vivet (CEA-LETI )

Our Cable-Car Logo

• Cable cars going up and down streets of SF– Designed by Ivan and Marly

• Continues the Async tradition …– Of Muller C-element based logos– As each cable car is a three-port device

• Escher-esque– Trace the cable of a cable car … – It becomes the street for the neighboring cable car - and

vice versa.

Behind the Scenes

• University of Utah– Erik Brunvand (Publications Chair)

– Chris Coleman (Proceedings cover design)

• Ran Ginosar (Technion)– Publicity Chair

• Sun Microsystems - Local Arrangements– Jeff Rulifson

– Jeanie Triechel

– Yaeko Hirotsuka

• UC Berkeley– Ferenc Kovac & Winthrop Williams & Kevin Zimmerman (Demo)

– Karen Tran, Pete Caragher, Ming Wong, Patrick Au (Audio/Visual)

A Note of Thanks

• The Authors– For submitting the high quality papers

• The Reviewers– For their dedication and the time to review,

discuss, select the papers

• The Attendees– For lively questions and discussion

A Special Thank You

• Richard Newton – UC Berkeley– Professor & Dean of the College

of Engineering– Gave us access to conference site

• Bechtel Engineering Center • Hearst Memorial Mining Building

– Passed away on January 2, 2007• He will be with us in our hearts and

minds during the conference