The 21st UK Asynchronous Forum

The University of Bristol,     14th-15th September 2009

The UK Asynchronous Forum is an informal 1-day meeting where those working in asynchronous and related design in the UK (and particularly research students) can meet to present and discuss ideas.  The event is optimised for UK participants though others are welcome to attend.  See the UK Asynchronous Forum home page for further details.
 

Scope

The scope of the Async Forum will be interpreted broadly to include:

• clockless and multi-clocked systems
• novel architectures with asynchronous dynamics
• synchronization and metastability
• communication-centric design for SoCs, NoCs
• all sorts of timing issues in system and circuit design
• variability analysis and variability-tolerance
• modelling and simulation of NoCs and GALS systems
• motivating case studies, comparisons, and applications
• formal methods for correctness, and performance/power analysis
• test, reliability, security, and radiation tolerance
• embedded system design with asynchronous architectures/implementations

and anything else relevant of interest.

Deadlines

• 10th August, 2009              - submission deadline
• 17th August, 2009              - registration deadline

Submissions

Extended abstracts of not more than 4 pages must be submitted to Alex Yakovlev (alex.yakovlev at newcastle.ac.uk) by 10th August.
Abstracts must be sent in either ASCII, postscript (which must be viewable with ghostview) or pdf.
 

Schedule

                                                 morning                        afternoon                        evening
14th September                             travel                             talks                              dinner
15th September                             talks                               travel
 

Programme

Day 1 Monday 14th September 2009

13.00 Registration

13.30 Initialisation and Synchronisation for a Dynamic Topology Network-on-Chip Architecture
      Chris Jackson and Simon Hollis, University of Bristol

14.00 Channel Slicing: a Way to Build Fast Routers for Asynchronous NoCs
      Wei Song and Doug Edwards, University of Manchester

14.30 NoC Monitoring Infrastructure: A Supervisory and Control Service
      Raaed Al-Dujaily, Li Dai, Fei Xia, Delong Shang and Alex Yakovlev, Newcastle University
      
15.00 Network-on-Chip Monitoring and Diagnostic System 
      Li Dai, Raaed Al-Dujaily, Fei Xia, Delong Shang and Alex Yakovlev, Newcastle University

15.30 Coffee

16.00 Invited Industrial Talk
      Crescenzo D'Alessandro, picoChip

16.45 Command and Control of a Massively Parallel GALS Environment
      Cameron Patterson, University of Manchester

17.15 Dynamic Concurrency Reduction for Power Management
      Yu Zhou and Alex Yakovlev, Newcastle University
      
17.45 Presentation by attendees and Business Meeting

19.30 Forum Dinner



Day 2 Tuesday 15th September 2009

09.00 A Usable Reachability Analyser
      Victor Khomenko, Newcastle University

09.30 Optimisation of Balsa Control Path Using STG Resynthesis
      Arseniy Alekseyev, Ivan Poliakov, Victor Khomenko and Alex Yakovlev, Newcastle University

10.00 Ultra Low Power Circuit Possibilities for Resilient Technologies, 
      Matthew Cunningham, Robin Emery, Alex Yakovlev and Alton Horsfall, Newcastle University

10.30 Faster Statistical Analysis of the Effect of nano-CMOS Variability on Asynchronous Circuits, 
      Zheng Xie and Doug Edwards, University of Manchester

11.00 Coffee

11.30 Synthesis of Instruction Codes in the Context of Asynchronous Microcontrol Design
      Andrey Mokhov, Ulan Degenbaev and Alex Yakovlev, Newcastle University and Univesitaet des Saarlandes

12.00 Conditions and Techniques for Correctness of SI/QDI Circuits Under Large Variability 
      Yu Li and Alex Yakovlev, Newcastle University 

12.30 Close

Location

The forum will be held in Room 1.11a in theDepartment of Computer Science , Merchant Venturers Building, at the University of Bristol. For information on how to get there, see this page (we are building 25 on the precinct plan).

The entrance to the Computer Science Department is on the third floor, on Woodland Road, up the (external) steps between Queens' Road and Woodland Road (look for the steps to the right of the tall Wills Memorial Tower and garden).
Accommodation will be in Hiatt Baker Hall, 40 minutes walk from the Department, but easily accessible by public transport. Directions and university accommodation map).

Here is a Google Map of all the Forum's key locations in Bristol.
 
 

Transport

Bristol is a major transportation hub, and is very well served by:

• Road (via M4&M5).


• Air (from Newcastle, Edinburgh, Manchester...) to Bristol International, which has an express shuttle bus service stopping at the university, and also close to the forum accommodation (number 330).


• Rail (direct to almost every major city in the UK). Rail travellers are advised to travel to Bristol Temple Meads station (not Bristol Parkway), from where the university is about 25 minutes walk (walking directions) (or take one of the frequent buses 8&9 from the station entrance to the "Top of Park Street" [see Google Map], and disembark opposite the iconic Wills Memorial Building Tower [picture]) [other directions and maps]. For the accommodation at Hiatt Baker Hall, Clifton Down station is closer, but with a less frequent, connecting train service.


• Bristol also has a busy coach station within 10 minutes' walk of the forum venue (map), which offers National Express services every half-hour to London and elsewhere.

 

Registration

Registration costs have been kept as low as possible, in keeping with our desire to make the forum accessible to a broad a range of people. Registration is £65 including accommodation, proceedings and the forum dinner. For people not requiring accommodation, registration is £35.

The absolute deadline for registration is the 17th August 2009. All applications must be received by that date. If you are paying by cheque, remember that your application will need to be sent a few days before this date, to arrive in time through the post.

  Payment: payment can be made either:

• By cheque, made out to "University of Bristol". Please write "Re: UK Async Forum, COSC/GC1071", and the names of the people you are registering on the back of the cheque, and send it with your registration form (.pdf , .doc) to Kathy Johnston, Department of Computer Science, Merchant Venturers Building, Woodland Road, Bristol, BS8 1UB.


• By credit/debit card, please fill in the registration form (.pdf , .doc), along with a credit/debit card payment slip (.pdf , .doc), and fax along with the registration form to Kathy Johnston, at the number displayed at the bottom of the sheet.


• For ALL REGISTRATIONS, as well as processing the payment, as above, please also email a copy of the completed registration form (.pdf , .doc), or a text-list of attendees and accommodation requirements, to simon AT cs.bris.ac.uk with the subject "Async Forum Registration".