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How Asynchronous Circuits Undeniably Improve the Inter-Cluster Communication Performance of 2D and 3D MP-SoCs

Speaker: Dr. Abbas Sheibanyrad, TIMA Laboratory

Talk Title: How Asynchronous Circuits Undeniably Improve the Inter-Cluster Communication Performance of 2D and 3D MP-SoCs

Abstract: It is more than half a century the field of asynchronous circuits has begun to attract the attention of researchers. Since then a large number of theoretical concerns have been studied in detail. However until recently the research in this field was almost limited to some academic communities. As the research was focused almost on theory rather than practice, this logic circuit design methodology was not globally in use and few numbers of industries were interested to invest on it. Nevertheless, since early 2000 by the emergence of large-scale SoCs the figure has been changed and the Asynchronous Circuits has drawn a high level of interest from both academic and industrial minds. Nowadays one can hardly deny the advantages of using asynchronous circuits for NoCs in large systems and particularly for 3D-NoCs. In this talk I would like to elaborate on the advantages of asynchronous design on the network performance, and as a summary of our research during the last five years on asynchronous NoC and GALS systems, l show how asynchronous circuit makes the construction of large-scale inter-cluster communication infrastructure possible. Furthermore we will discuss on the design of ASPIN (a distributed asynchronous NoC) and on the advantages of asynchronous 3D-NoCs using serialized vertical links and thus on the unavoidable use of asynchronous circuits in future 3D MP-SoCs.

Biography: Abbas SHEIBANYRAD (known Hamed to friends) was born in Dezfoul, a city in southwestern Iran, in 1976. He received a bachelor’s degree in Computer Hardware Engineering from Tehran Polytechnic University. After that he held a design engineer position in the R&D section of a company manufacturing telecommunication equipments, for three years in Tehran. Hamed received a master’s degree in Microelectronic and Integrated System Architecture from the University of Pierre and Marie Curie (Paris 6) in 2004. In March, 2008, from the same university (LIP6) he obtained a PhD degree on Computer Science, Telecommunications, and Electronics. After one year of postdoctoral fellowship in TIMA laboratory in Grenoble, France, since 2009 he is a CNRS (French national center of scientific research) research fellow working in SLS team of the same laboratory. His research interests include principally network-level architecture of Networks-on-Chip.

Host: Prof. Peter Beerel

Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

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