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Past Meeting / Presentation timetable

2010

  • 07 January:
  • 14 January:
  • 21 January: Tom Sharp: "Many-core explorations with ARM"
  • 28 January:
  • 04 February: Zuo Liu: "Improving VoIP over Wireless Ad-hoc Networks by Exploiting Multiple Channels and Cross Network Layer Information"
  • 11 February: No Meeting.
  • 18 February: Martin Grymel: "A Novel Programmable Parallel CRC Circuit"
  • 25 February:
  • 04 March:
  • 11 March: Fu Chen: POSTPONED.
  • 18 March:
  • 25 March:
  • 01 April: Dom Richards: "An Experimental Proof Environment for Bluespec SystemVerilog"
  • 08 April: Easter Week.
  • 15 April: Anthony Kleerekoper: "Optimal Output Power for Wireless Sensor Networks"
  • 22 April: Jeremy Singer: "The Economics of Garbage Collection"
  • 29 April: Will Toms: "M-of-N Code Decomposition for Indicating Combinational Logic" (Async dry-run)
  • 06 May:
  • 13 May: No meeting.
  • 20 May: No meeting.
  • 27 May: Paul Ampadu (Univ. Rochester, N.Y State) :Joint Transient and Permanent Error Management for NoC Links
  • 03 June: Fu Chen: "Peer-to-Peer applicationa and Load-Balancing"
  • 10 June: Alex Rast: "The Leaky Integrate-and-Fire Neuron: A Platform for Synaptic Model Exploration on the SpiNNaker Neuromimetic Chip"
  • 17 June: Steve Potter (Georgia Inst of Tech): "Neuroscience and AI"
  • 24 June: Sergio Davies :"Implementing Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity on SpiNNaker Neuromorphic Hardware"
  • 01 July:Francesco Galluppi:"Algorithm and Software for Simulation of Spiking Neural Networks on the Multi-Chip SpiNNaker System"
  • 08 July: Steering Group Visit - No APT meeting.
  • 15 July: Thomas Sharp: "Multi-Core Computation on ARM M-Class Cores"
  • 22 July: Jeremy Singer: "A MapReduce Java Framework for Multi-Cores"
  • 29 July: No meeting.
  • 05 Aug:
  • 12 Aug: Terrence Mak (Newcastle University): "On-Chip Dynamic Optimisation: Concept, Design and Applications"

    • 2010/2011 Academic Year


  • 14 Oct: Prof. Steve Furber:"Biologically-Inspired Massively-Parallel Architectures - Computing Beyond a Million Processors"
  • 21 Oct: No Meeting.
  • 28 Oct: No Meeting
  • 04 Nov: No Meeting
  • 11 Nov: Double Bill:
    Francesco Galluppi: Interfacing PyNN with the SpiNNaker: A General-purpose Model Translation
    System for a Universal Neural Chip

    Sergio Davies: Interfacing Real-Time Spiking I/O with the SpiNNaker neuromimetic architecture
  • 18 Nov: No meeting.
  • 25 Nov: Lilian Janin: Graphical debugging tools using IP-based system design, co-simulation and FPGA prototyping.
  • 02 Dec:
  • 09 Dec:
  • 16 Dec:
  • 23 Dec: No meeting.

2009

  • 08 Jan: No Meeting
  • 15 Jan: No Meeting
  • 22 Jan: No Meeting.
  • 29 Jan: Yebin Shi: "Fault-tolerant, Delay-insensitive, Inter-chip Communication"
  • 05 Feb: No Meeting.
  • 12 Feb: Dr. Simon Hollis (University of Bristol)
                  "Energy-reducing Techniques for Many-core Networks-on-Chip"
  • 19 Feb: Zheng Xie: "Faster Statistical Analysis of nano-CMOS IC designs"
  • 26 Feb: Cameron Patterson: "Managing Resources in Packet Switched Data Networks"
  • 05 Mar: Jeremy Singer: "Using Java method patterns to predict runtime behaviour"
  • 12 Mar: No Meeting.
  • 19 Mar: Behram Khan: "Exploiting Object Structure in Hardware Transactional Memory"
  • 26 Mar: No APT meeting.
  • 02 Apr: Barry Cheetham: "Harmonious Sounds" {Will include some demonstrations}
                     {Musical Harmony with "Just Intonation" rather than "Equal Temperament"}
  • 09 Apr: Pavel Rybin: "A Data-Structure-Driven Approach to Thread-Level Speculation"
  • 16 Apr: Easter Week.
  • 23 Apr: Jian Wu: "The SpiNNaker Router for Neural Simulation"
  • 30 Apr: M.Abuthera: "High-accuracy, Machine-efficient Chebyshev Approximation: An Application to Spectral methods for Sobolev spaces."
  • 07 May: Will Toms: "Prime Indicants: A Synthesis Method for Indicating Combinational Logic Blocks"
  • 14 May: No meeting.
  • 21 May: No meeting.
  • 28 May: No meeting.
  • 04 June: Alex Rast: "A Universal Abstract-Time Platform for Real-Time Neural networks"
  • 11 June: No Meeting.
  • 18 June: No Meeting.
  • 25 June: Kim Jarvis: "Transactional data Structures"
  • 02 July: No Meeting.
  • 09 July: No Meeting.
  • 16 July: Isuru Herath: "Segmented Memory Architecture for Relaxing Cache Coherency and Consistency"
  • 23 July: Zheng Xie: "Faster Monte Carlo Analysis of Effect of variability on nano-CMOS Integrated Circuits"
    {NB: In Kilburn 2-19}
  • 30 July: No meeting.
  • 06 Aug: No Meeting.
  • 13 Aug: Wei Shao: "LDPC Codes and a Novel Trellis Based Decoding Algorithm "
  • 20 Aug: No meeting
  • 27Aug: No meeting
  • 03 September: No meeting.
  • 10 September:
  • 17 September:
  • 24 September:
  • 01 October: Paris Yiapanis: "Uncovering Profitable Thread-Level Speculation: A Machine Learning Approach"
  • 08 October: No meeting.
  • 15 October: No meeting.
  • 22 October: Charles Brej: "Charlie's Grand Challenge & Project Utopium."
  • 29 October:
  • 05 November:
  • 12 November: Simon Davidson: "Memory for NeuroSymbolic Computation"
  • 19 November:
  • 26 November:
  • 03 December: Wei Song: " From Channel Slicing to Spatial Division Multiplexing --- the asynchronous NoC router design."
  • 10 December: No meeting
  • 17 December: Will Toms: "M-of-N Code Decomposition for Indicating Combinational Logic Circuits"
  • 24 December: Christmas Eve.

2008

  • 03 Jan: No Meeting.
  • 10 Jan: Richard Banach: "Retrenchment, and the Generation of Fault Trees for Static, Dynamic and Cyclic Systems"
  • 17 Jan: APT Portfolio Meeting.
  • 24 Jan: M. Ansari: "Experiences in Using Concurrency Control for Transactional memory"
  • 31 Jan: Alex Rast: (Prov date) "High Performance On-Chip Interconnect: Implications from an AXI Case Study"
  • 07 Feb: Behram Khan: "An Object Based Hardware Transactional memory System"
  • 14 Feb: No APT Meeting
  • 21 Feb: Preethi Sam: "Tiled CMPs"
  • 28 Feb: Jeremy Singer: "Till Death do Us part" (or) Metrics-based Object Lifetime Prediction.
  • 06 Mar: Tim Harris (Microsoft Research): "What does Atomic Mean?"
  • 13 Mar: Javier Navaridas: "Preliminary Evaluation of SpiNNaker Interconnection Network"
  • 20 Mar:
  • 27 Mar: "Easter Week"
  • 03 Apr: Ernie Hill: "GRAPHENE - Can it REPLACE CMOS"
  • 10 Apr: ASYNC-2008 week.
  • 17 Apr: Sohini Dasgupta: "Formal Design and Verification of GALS Architectures"
  • 24 Apr: UK Design Forum - No meeting.
  • 01 May: James Anderson (U.Reading): "The Perspex Machine"
  • 08 May: Alexander Rast: "A Virtual Synaptic Model for On-Chip Neural Networks"
  • 15 May: Jose Luis Nunez-Yanez: "Dynamically reconfigurable processing elements in Energy Efficient and fault Tolerant Networks-on-Chip: The Universal MPSoC.
  • 22 May: Shufan Yang: "An Admission Control System for QoS Provision on a Best-Effort GALS Interconnect"
                 Xin Jin: "Efficient Modelling of Spiking Neural Networks on a Scalable Chip Multiprocessor"
  • 29 May: Javier Navaridas: "Behavioural Analysis of Packet Traffic in the SpiNNaker Network"
  • 05 Jun: Lilian Janin: "Presentation of the GALAXY project"
  • 12 Jun: No Meeting.
  • 19 Jun: Bala Padmanabhan: "Novel Self-Timed Adder Design"
  • 26 Jun: Jeremy Singer: "Value Prediction {A-K-A Calculated Guesswork}"
  • 03Jly: Ian Rogers: "Compilation, Optimization of Object-Oriented Languages, Programs and Systems (ICOOOLPS Dry-Run)"
  • 10Jly: No Meeting.
  • 17Jly: Postponed presentation
  • 24Jly: Matt Horsnell: "Benchmarks, Simulation and Many-Core Architectures"
  • 31Jly: Wei Shao: "Adaptive decoding of Turbo code using a new bit-level early stopping algorithm."
  • 07 Aug: Chris Emmons: "Compiling Imperative Language Programs for the ARMADA Architecture"
  • 14 Aug: Charles Brej: "Microprocessors: Past, Present and Future"
  • 21 Aug: Wei Song: "A Dynamic Link Allocation Router for Asynchronous NoC"
  • 28 Aug: Simon Wilkinson: "Internship Report from Sun Labs: The Maxine Virtual Machine"
                (Includes a Demo)
  • 04 Sep: K.K.Al Zahid: TBA
  • 11 Sep: Alex Rast: "Abstracting Both Architecture and Time: The SpiNNaker Neuromimetic Modelling Platform"
  • 18 Sep: Zou Liu: "Investigating Dynamic Network Protocol Stacks"
  • 25 Sep: No meeting - Fresher's week room preemption!
  • 02 Oct: Andy Nisbet (MMU): "Value Profiling Using Pin" N.B. Room LF15
  • 09 Oct: No APT meeting.
  • 16 Oct: Will Toms: "Boolean differential calculus and its application to self-timed circuits"
  • 23 Oct: No Meeting.
  • 30 Oct: M.M.Khan: "Real-Time Application Support for a Massively Parallel CMP System"
  • 06 Nov: Demian Rosas: "Dynamic Scheduling in Multicore Processors"
  • 13 Nov: Xin Jin (Scott): "Parallel Implementation of Recurrent Back-propagation Networks on SpiNNaker - a Chip-Multiprocessor"
  • 20 Nov: Alex Rast: "The Deferred Event Model for Hardware-Oriented Spiking Neural Networks"
  • 27 Nov: Dom Richards: "Formal Verification of Networks-on-Chip"
  • 04 Dec: No Meeting.
  • 11 Dec: Chris Fensch (Cambridge): "An OS-Based Alternative to Full Hardware Coherence on Tiled CMPs"
  • 18 Dec: No Meeting.

2007

  • 04 Jan: No APT Meeting.
  • 11 Jan: No APT Meeting.
  • 18 Jan: No APT Meeting.
  • 25 Jan: Jeremy Singer: "Branch Prediction with Bayesian Networks" (N.B. Kilburn 2-19)
  • 01 Feb: Steve Furber: "SpiNNaker Project Overview"
    (In Kilburn 1.4)
  • 08 Feb: Andrew Dinn: "A Transactional Memory System for Jamaica" (In Kilburn 1.4)
  • 15 Feb: Mukaram Khan: "High Level Modelling of the SpiNNaker Architecture"
    (In Kilburn 1.4)
  • 22 Feb: Chris Emmons: "ARMADA: Exploiting Parallelism in a One-Instruction Computer Architecture" (In Kilburn 1.4)
  • 01 March: Andrew Robinson: "Sensitive Registers: a Technique for Reducing the Fetch Bandwidth in Low-Power Microprocessors" (In Kilburn 1.4)
  • 08 March: No Meeting.
  • 15 March: Luis Plana and Jian Wu: "SpiNNaker - The Communications Network-on-Chip" (K2.19)
  • 22 March: "Free Slot" ..... (In Kilburn 1.4)
  • 29 March: Free Slot.
  • 05 April: Sam Taylor: "Data-driven, syntax-directed, synthesis of asynchronous circuits"
  • 12 April: Easter Week
  • 19 April: No Meeting.
  • 26 April: Jeremy Singer: "Intelligent Selection of Garbage Collection Algorithms" (K2-19)
  • 03 May: Alex Rast: "Implementation-Neutral Building Blocks for Hardware Neural Networks"
  • 10 May: APT Research Group meeting with School Management.
  • 17 May: Preethi Sam: TBA
  • 24 May: No Meeting (Academic Staff Home-Away-day)
  • 31 May: Zhao Jisheng: "Adaptive Loop Tiling for Jamaica CMP"
  • 07 June: No Meeting
  • 14 June: No meeting
  • 21 June: Simon Wilkinson: "The Potential of Data-Flow Driven Speculative Method-Level Parallelism within Java Programs"
  • 28 June: Barry Cheetham: "Error Control: Mainly a Tutorial"
  • 05 July: Jim Garside: "An Inexpert Guide to the Basic Structures of USB"
  • 12 July: Wei Shao: "Adaptive Viterbi Decoders"
  • 19 July: Nitin Gupta: "Achieving Timing Closure on Synthesised Handshake Circuits"
  • 26 July: No Meeting
  • 02 Aug: Ian Rogers: "A Research Parallel Language Runtime for X10"
  • 09 Aug: No meeting.
  • 16 Aug: Luis Tarazona: "Performance-Driven Syntax-Directed Synthesis of Asynchronous Processors"
  • 23 Aug: Simon Moore (Cambridge): "Communication Centric Computer Design"
  • 30 Aug: PRESENTATION POSTPONED 30 Aug: Behram Khan: TBA (In Kilburn 1.4 TBC)
  • 06 Sep: No Meeting
  • 13 Sept: Steve Furber: "Microelectronics Grand Challenges Presentation" (K-2-19)
  • 20 Sept: Prof. Thambipillai Srikanthan, NTU, Singapore: "CHiPES" (K-LT1.5)
    (CHiPES = Centre for High-Performance Embedded Systems)
  • 27 Sept: Charles Brej: "RED STAR: - The world's fastest processor revealed" (K-LF15)
  • 04 Oct:Kostas Nikas: "Cache Partitioning Techniques for Chip Multiprocessors"
  • 11 Oct: Matt Horsnell "A Chip Multi-Cluster Architecture with Locality-Aware Task Distribution"
  • 18 Oct: Jeremy Singer: "Intelligent Garbage Collection"
  • 25 Oct: Prof. Nigel Topham (Edinburgh): "ARC Multicore Media-Processing Architecture"
  • 01 Nov: (Research Students Forum)
  • 08 Nov: No meeting.
  • 15 Nov: Basabdatta Sen: "Information Recovery from Rank-Order Encoded Images"
  • 22 Nov: Andrew Robinson: "Savings from Increased Register Bank Hierarchy and Exploitation of Spatial Locality"
  • 29 Nov: Will Toms: "Yeah, but am I really bovvered tho": The Use of Don't_Cares in Indicating Combinational Logic Synthesis. (sic)
  • 06 Dec: No Meeting (IET Cambridge)
  • 13 Dec: Christos Kotselidis: "Exploiting Distributed Software Transactional Memory"
  • 20 Dec: APT Xmas Lunch

2006

  • 05 Jan: Jeremy Singer: "Higher Order Virtualisation"
  • 12 Jan: Simon Harding (York) "Evolution in Materio". (Programming materials to perform computation using evolution) NB In IT407.
  • 19 Jan: No APT Meeting.
  • 26 Jan: No APT Meeting.
  • 02 Feb: No APT Meeting.
  • 09 Feb: No APT Meeting.
  • 16 Feb: Andrew Robinson: "Reducing Power Consumption in Embedded Processor Architectures".
  • 23 Feb: Nitin Gupta: "Validation of Handshake Circuits"
  • 02 March: Basabdatta Sen: "Information Recovery from Rank-Order Encoded Images"
  • 09 March: Will Toms: "Synthesising Heterogeneously-Encoded Systems"
  • 16 March: No APT meeting.
  • 23 March: Gavin Brown: "Return Value Prediction meets Information Theory"
  • 30 March: Matthew Horsnell : "Support for Speculative Execution in the Jamaica Architecture" (POSTPONED)
    C.Brej: Report on ASYNC06.
  • 06 Apri: Preethi Sam: "Performance Analysis of the Lock Unit in Jamaica"
  • 13 April: Wenyu Guo: "Indoor Location Sensing using Impulse Radios"
  • 20 April: Matthew Horsnell : "Support for Speculative Execution in the Jamaica Architecture
  • 27 April: (IT407)
  • 04 May:
  • 11 May: Chris Emmons: "Transport Triggered Architectures"
  • 18 May: Steve Furber: "Future Research Overview - Recently funded E-Science project - Meeting the Design Challenge of Nano-CMOS Electronics" (N.B. In Kilburn 2-15)
  • 25 May: Jeremy Singer: "Branch Prediction - Folklore and Facts"
  • 01 June: Lilian Janin: "Meeting for the Final Choice of the APT Supercomputer"
  • 08 June: No Meeting.
  • 15 June: No Meeting.
  • 22 June: Simon Wilkinson: "Runtime and Language Support for Thread-level Speculation" (NB: In IT407)
  • 29 June: No APT Meeting (Research Away-day)
  • 06 July: 2.00 -> 4.00 p.m. APT M.Sc. Student Presentations.
  • 06 July: 4.00 p.m. Joy Bose: "Implementing a Sequence Machine from Spiking Neurons"
  • 13 July: Ian Jason:"Dynamic Optimisation of Software into Reconfigurable Hardware via Chains of Basic Blocks"
  • 20 July: Mohammad Ansari: "Operating System Scheduling on CMT Architectures"
  • 27 July: Andrew Robinson: "Sensitive Registers"
  • 03 Aug: Barry Cheetham "Error Concealment for Voice over WLAN in Converged Enterprise Networks" (Demonstrations included)
  • 10 Aug: Charlie Brej: "Biscotti"
  • 17 Aug: Jian Wu: "Efficient Inter-Chip Asynchronous Protocols"
    >>>>>> Yebin Shi: "Error Checking and Resetting Mechanisms for Asynchronous Interconnect"
  • 24 Aug: Jim Garside: "Fast Fourier Transforms Demystified"
  • 31 Aug: Joy Bose: "An Asynchronous Spiking Neural network which can learn Temporal Sequences"
    >>>>>> Nitin Gupta: "Validation of Handshake Circuits" (IT407)
  • 07 Sept: No APT Meeting.
  • 14 Sept: Ian Rogers et al: "ACACES Summer School"
  • 21 Sept: No APT meeting (Atlas-1 N/A)
  • 28 Sept: No APT meeting.
  • 05 Oct: Video Presentation: "Neuromorphic VLSI for Learning and Memory"
                John Arthur, University of Pennsylvania, Recorded April 11th 2006.
  • 12 Oct: Ian Watson: "An Introduction to Transactional Memory"
  • 19 Oct: Mikel Lujan: "Introduction to Thread Level Speculation"
  • 26 Oct:
  • 02 Nov: Jeremy Singer: "Branch Prediction using Bayesian Networks"
  • 09 Nov: Basabdatta Sen: "Maximising information recovery from rank-order images"
  • 16 Nov: Barry Cheetham: "Singular value Decomposition and the Pseudo-Inverse Matrix"
  • 23 Nov: Will Toms: "Self-Timed Combinational Logic Synthesis and the SEDATE project"
  • 30 Nov: Video presentation - David Patterson - "Parallel Research"
  • 07 Dec: Available slot.
  • 14 Dec: Behram Khan: - Postponed until 2007.
    (N.B. In Kilburn LF15)
  • 21 Dec: No APT meeting.

2005

  • 27 Jan: Y.Liub (Bill): "Low power proposals - data-flow coprocessor / low-power embedded RAM".
  • 03 Feb: S.Kommanaboyina: "Switching Nets for Comms between Fn Units and Mem Blocks".
  • 10 Feb: C.Brej: "Wagging Logic: Moore's Law will eventually fix it"
  • 17 Feb: Ian Jason: TBA - Cancelled.
  • 24 Feb: Dr David Lester: "To infinity and beyond with NASA"
  • 03 Mar: Video: M.J.Flynn: "Computer Arch. and Tech.: The Road Ahead"
  • 10 Mar: Lilian Janin: "Ph.D. and beyond: Simulation, Visualisation and Debugging tools for Balsa"
  • 17 Mar: Andrew Robinson: "The Buzz around ZigBee"
  • 24 Mar: Ian Rogers: "Towards Virtual Instruction Sets and Dynamically Optimised Operating System Architectures.
  • 31 Mar: Easter Week.
  • 07 April: Ian Jason: "Towards shorter instructions via context-based decoding"
  • 14 April: M.Horsnell: "A unified simulation/development environment for optimising chip multiprocessors."
  • 21 April: J.Singer: "Concept Assignment as a Debugging Techniques for Code Generators".
  • 28 April: No Meeting.
  • 05 May: No Meeting.
  • 12 May: Prof. Takashi Nanya; University of Tokyo.
  • 19 May: S.Kommanaboyina: "High Speed Interconnect Architectures."
  • 26 May: Available slot.
  • 02 June: Sam Taylor: "Why Balsa circuits are slow and how to make them faster"
  • 09 June: Available slot.(Atlas rooms N/A)
  • 16 June: Available slot.
  • 23 June: Basabdatta Sen: "Simulating Visual processing in the Retina"
  • 30 June: Hiroshi Suemitsu (M.Sc. Stud): "Designing Hardware Systems using the System-C language"
  • 07 July: No Meeting.
  • 14 July: Joy Bose : "Engineering a Sequence Machine from Spiking Neurons"
  • 21 July: (External Meeting - Atlas N/A)
  • 28 July: Preethi Sam : "Queuing Locks for Chip Multiprocessors"
  • 04 Aug: No Meeting.
  • 11 Aug: Zhao Jisheng : "Runtime Loop Optimisation in the JikesRVM"
  • 18 Aug: Matt Horsnell (Organiser): HIPEAC Summer School Reports.
  • 25 Aug: Joy Bose: "A spiking neural sparse distributed memory implementation for learning and predicting temporal sequences" (ICANN05 dry-run)
  • 01 Sep: Jim Garside: ARM Architectural Extensions - Session#1
  • 08 Sep: Kostas Nikas: "JAMAICA's memory organisation and proposed optimisations."
  • 15 Sep: Jeremy Singer: "Entropy as a Measure of Predictability for Method Return Values"
  • 22 Sep: Sam Taylor: "Atacking Control Overhead to Improve Synthesised Asynchronous Circuit Performance" (ICCD Conference - Dry-Run)
  • 29 Sep: No APT meeting today.
  • 06 Oct: Jim Garside: ARM Architectural Extensions - Session#2
  • 13 Oct: Ian Rogers: "E-Learning"
  • 20 Oct: Lilian Janin: "Balsamic - A System-Level Design Environment for Asynchronous Research."
  • 27 Oct: Barry Cheetham: "WINDECT: Professional Quality Voice over Wireless LAN"
  • 03 Nov: Research Student's Symposium - No APT Meeting
  • 10 Nov: Ian Jason: "Reconfigurable Computing Using Basic Blocks"
  • 17 Nov:
  • 24 Nov: Steve Furber: "A Chip Multiprocessor for Large-Scale Neural Simulation"
  • 01 Dec: No Meeting.
  • 08 Dec: C.Brej: "Blame Passing for Analysis and Optimisation"
  • 15 Dec: Wei Shao: "Low Power Viterbi Design: An Adaptive Approach"
  • 22 Dec: No Meeting.
  • 29 Dec: No Meeting.

2004

  • 08 Jan: Joy Bose: NIPS'03 Conference Report
  • 15 Jan: Atlas Rooms N/A
  • 22 Jan:
  • 29 Jan: Tomaz Felicijan "Quality of Service in Async. Networks - Results."
  • 05 Feb:
  • 12 Feb: Ian Rogers "Development of APT web pages"
  • 19 Feb: Matthew Horsnell "Cycle-accurate distributed chip multiprocessor simulation"
  • 26 Feb:
  • 04 Mar: Aristeidis Efthymiou: An asynchronous, iterative implementation of the original Booth multiplication algorithm (Async 2004 dry-run)
  • 11 Mar:
  • 18 Mar: Wei Shao: Low Power Optimisations in Various Ranges: The STUMP RISC Processor Design
  • 25 Mar: Nitin Gupta: "The Early Balsa Back-End."
  • 01 Apr: No Meeting.
  • 08 Apr: Maundy Thursday
  • 15 Apr: Easter Week
  • 22 Apr: ASYNC 2004 Week. Atlas Rooms N/A
  • 29 Apr: Ian Watson: Report on Intel Academic Forum.
  • 06 May: Charlie, Wei, Eve, Sam: ASYNC'04 Feedback Report
  • 13 May: Kostantinos Nikas: "Design of an Instruction Buffer for Low Power Architectures."
  • 20 May: No Meeting - Atlas Rooms N/A
  • 27 May: Charlie Brej: "Backward Safe Early Output: An Improved QDI logic system".
  • 03 June: No Meeting
  • 10 June: (Atlas rooms N/A)
  • 17 June: Eve "Energy efficient func. unit for a Compute-intensive async. parallel DSP"
  • 24 June: Joy Bose TBA In IT406
  • 01 July: Nikolitsa Dromazou : SensorNet Module Experiments.
  • 08 July: Y.Liub (Bill): "The Design of a Low Power Asynchronous Multiplier" (In IT406).
  • 15 July: Hamed Shahidipour: "Scalar Representation in populations of neurons"
  • 22 July: APT Group Research Review 12.00-15.00 hrs.(Atlas Rooms)
  • 09 Sept: Nitin Gupta: "Energy Efficient Functional Unit For A Parallel Asynchronous DSP"
  • 30 Sept: APT group meeting introducing new students / C.Brej: "MAPLD 2004: Chips in space"
  • 07 Oct: Sam Taylor: "Handshake Circuit Control Overhead (The worlds slowest ARM is not slow everywhere!)" N.B. In Kilburn 2-19
  • 14 Oct: Will Toms: "Synthesis of QDI Data Paths"
  • 21 Oct: Ian Jason: "The Branch Target Bank Device"
  • 28 Oct: Joy Bose: "Dynamics and Engineering of Spiking Neural Systems using Rank Order Codes: where I am and where to go"
  • 04 Nov: Clash with Dean's visit.
  • 11 Nov: Eve: "A novel circuit for Hamming distance and normalization in self-timed DSPs"
  • 18 Nov: No APT meeting - Senior Staff meeting clash.
  • 25 Nov: Paul Capewell: "Optimising a Java Aware Processor Pipeline."
  • 02 Dec: Will Toms: "Speed-Independent Synthesis of Strongly-Indicating Combinatorial-Logic Circuits"
  • 09 Dec: Wei Shao: "A new Low-Power Trace-Back SMU architecture for a Viterbi Decoder"
  • 16 Dec: Available slot
  • 23 Dec: Available slot

2003

  • 30 Jan Research review 10.00-12.00 in Atlas1/2
  • 30 Jan: Joy Bose - "A Scalable Neural Processing sub-system" Aris - Report on ACid Group meeting.
  • 06 Feb: David Lester - "Verification of Transcendental Functions" (in Mercury)
  • 13 Feb: Rahman Hassan - "Evaluating Test Vector Coverage Using a Layout Driven Fault Model".
  • 20 Feb: Paul Capewell - "Simulating Java binary translation hardware"
  • 27 Feb: Steve Nowick "Low-Latency Interface Circuits for Mixed-Timing Domains"
  • 06 Mar: Norman Dowd - "A Survey of High Speed Addition Techniques"
  • 13 Mar: Nigel Paver (Intel Corp.) "Wireless MMX(tm) Technology for Mobile Multi-media Applications"
  • 20 Mar: Lihua Ren - "Implementing neural processing element in SOPC"
  • 27 Mar: Lilian Janin - "A Visualisation System for Debugging Balsa Designs"
  • 03 Apr: Sune Nielsen - "High-level behavioral synthesis of digital circuits by Simulated Annealing and Evolutionary Algorithms."
  • 10 Apr: ZhongChuan Yu (Danny) - "ASYNC03 dry-run"
  • 17 Apr: An Yu - "The Security of VLSI implementations of the new AES against power and timing attacks"
  • 24 Apr: Easter week.
  • 01 May: Aris Efthymiou - "ASYNC03 dry-run"
  • 08 May: John Bainbridge + Danny - "ASYNC03 dry-runs"
  • 15 May: ASYNC2003 this week.
  • 22 May: Charlie Brej - "Early Output Logic using Anti-Tokens" (IWLS2003 dry-run)
  • 29 May: Y.Liub (Bill): ASYNC2003 Report
  • 05 June: No Meeting.
  • 12 June: Tomaz Felicijan : "Low Latency Priority Arbiter for Greedy Clients"
  • 19 June: Steve Furber: Neural Systems Engineering.
  • 26 June: No Group Meeting (Academic staff 2-day meeting).
  • 03 July: Will Toms : "QDI Implementations of Boolean Networks"
  • 10 July: Regis Decamps (M.Sc. Student - SBF) : Neural Eng topic.
  • 17 July: No Meeting.
  • 24 July: Peter Marshall : Hardware Support of Large-Scale N-Networks.
  • 31 July: No Meeting.
  • 07 Aug: No Meeting.
  • 14 Aug: No Meeting.
  • 21 Aug: No Meeting.
  • 28 Aug: No Meeting.
  • 04 Sept: Xiaoxia Ni (Lizzie).
  • 11 Sept: Wannarat Suntiamorntut (Eve): Async Func Unit for Low Power DSP Arch.
  • 18 Sept: Joy Bose: A scalable neural model to recognise sequences of patterns.
  • 25 Sept: Yijun Liu (Bill): "Ultra Low_Power Processoor for Sensor Nets"
  • 02 Oct: Ian Rogers: "Parallelization Optimisations for the Jikes RVM".
  • 09 Oct:
  • 16 Oct: Andrew Dinn:Lightweight Java Threads on the Jamaica Chip Multi-Processor
  • 23 Oct:
  • 30 Oct: Aristeidis Efthymiou - "Testing Asynchronous Interconnect".
  • 06 Nov:
  • 13 Nov: Will Toms - "Quasi-Delay-Insensitive Multi-Level Logic Synthesis"
  • 20 Nov: Rahman Hassan - "Layout Driven Test Generation".
  • 27 Nov: Danny: "An Investigation into the Security of Self-timed Circuits".
  • 04 Dec: Manju - " EigenVector based DOALL parallelisation"
  • 11 Dec: Paul Capewell: "Simulation and timing of Java processor pipelines"
  • 18 Nov: APT Xmas Meal at 6.30 p.m.
  • 25 Dec: No Meeting - University closed.