NII Shonan Meeting No.133

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Welcome to NII Shonan Meeting Seminar No.133. The official page for this meeting is [[here|http://shonan.nii.ac.jp/shonan/blog/2017/12/20/no-133-asynchronous-circuit-design-and-its-applications-past-present-and-future/]].

! Bus schedule

! Train schedule

* The following trains are local trains (Yokosuka-line), but they start from JR Zushi station (it means it is easier to find empty seats), and directly take you up to Narita Airport without changes.
** 13:42 (Zushi) --(25 stations)-- 16:16 (NRT Terminal2) -- 16:18 (NRT Terminal 1)  # Taxi needed (around 12:45)
** 15:38 (Zushi) --(25 stations)-- 18:07 (NRT Terminal2) -- 18:10 (NRT Terminal 1)  # 14:45 bus is probably OK
** 16:46 (Zushi) --(25 stations)-- 19:20 (NRT Terminal2) -- 19:23 (NRT Terminal 1) # 15:45 bus is probably OK

* The following trains are similar, but they start before JR Zushi station (it means it happens all seats are occupied when you get in).
** 15:12 (Zushi) --(25 stations)-- 17:40 (NRT Terminal2) -- 17:43 (NRT Terminal 1)  # 13:45 bus is OK, but the waiting time is a bit long
** 16:09 (Zushi) --(25 stations)-- 18:38 (NRT Terminal2) -- 18:41 (NRT Terminal 1)  # This may be a back-up for 15:38 train

! Advantage

* Often cited (1-10 @ ASYNC1994, +11-17 @ SHONAN133) 
** 1. Achieve average Case Performance
** 2. Power consumed only when needed
** 3. Ease of modular composition
** 4. No clock alignment at the interfaces
** 5. Metastability has time to end
** 6. Avoid clock distribution costs
** 7. Easier to exploit concurrency
** 8. Intellectual challenge
** 9. Intrinsic elegance
** 10. Global synchrony does not exist anyway
** 11. Low EMI/noise
** 12. Process Bring-up support
** 13. Robust to PVT variations
** 14. Easier to interface to analog
** 15. Outlives CMOS
** 16. Intrinsically bio-inspired
** 17. Continuous time information processing

* NOT often cited (1-10 @ ASYNC1994, +11-17 @ SHONAN133)
** 1. It really pisses my boss off
** 2. I like reinventing wheels
** 3. I like to be different
** 4. Gee - I really don’t know
** 5. People and circuits need to play by same rules
** 6. I don't understand synchronous circuits
** 7. World problems stem from glithces
** 8. Synchronous design gives me gas
** 9. Clock radiation causes hair loss 
** 10. It’s none of your business
** 11. Clocks make me late
** 12. Asynchronous design makes me GasP
** 13. Forever the future technology
** 14. Timing is where the rubber hits the road
** 15. It confuses proposal reviewers
** 16. What else to call computing without clocks
** 17. I’m still waiting for an ack

! Tentative plan to travel from ASYNC2019 to Shonan Meeting

5/15 (Wed) :

12:24 Hirosaki -> 13:03 Shin-Aomori (Local train) (or 12:57 Hirosaki -> 13:39 Shin-Aomori)

13:52 Shin-Aomori -> 17:04 Tokyo (Hayabusa 24, Shinkansen train: Sheet reservations will be arranged by the organizers)

17:26 Tokyo -> 18:30 Zushi (Local train)

18:35 Zushi -> 19:00 Hotel (Taxi or Local bus)

! Organizers
||!Participant||!Research Interests||!Shonan Talk Title||! Abstract
||Tomohiro Yoneda || Asynchronous reconfigurable system design || Coarse grained vs. Fine grained architectures for asynchronous reconfigurable devices || {{attach_anchor('yoneda.txt')}}
||Peter A. Beerel || Bundled-Data Design || Useful variations of Bundled-Data Design ||  {{attach_anchor('beerel.txt')}}
||Alex Yakovlev || Asynchronous-Analog Co-design || Asynchronous control for Analog-Mixed Signal || {{attach_anchor('yakovlev-abstract.txt')}}
||Masashi Imai || Hardware Trojan, Scalable Delay Insensitive Design || QDI and SDI Design in Subthreshold Region ||{{attach_anchor('imai.txt')}}

! Participants
||!Participant||!Research Interests||!Shonan Talk Title||! Abstract
||Snorre Aunet || ultra low power / low energy asynchronous circuits || asynchronous ultra low voltage / low power CMOS - what and why, but not much about how. || 
||Ney Laert Vilar Calazans || QDI design templates and circuit design || QDI Circuits: Efficient Templates and Design Techniques  || {{attach_anchor('calazans.txt')}}
||Hong Chen ||Dataflow circuits, Bundled-data design || Asynchronous Energy-Efficient CNN Accelerator Design with Reconfigurable Architecture || 
||Huimei Cheng ||Desynchronization, Latch-based design ||  Opportunity and challenge of latch-based designs || {{attach_anchor('huimei.txt')}}
||Jordi Cortadella || Dataflow circuits, Synthesis of Asynchronous Controllers || High-Level Synthesis and Dataflow Circuits  || {{attach_anchor('cortadella.txt')}}
||Jia Di || Applications of QDI Circuits || Applications of QDI Circuits  || {{attach_anchor('Di.txt')}}
||Matthias Fuegger || timed designes, metastability, biological circuits, asynchronous & analog designs || Gradient clock generation  || 
||Mark Greenstreet || clock domain crossing, metastability, formal verification, timed design, analog design||Meditation on Metastability   || 
||Takahiro Hanyu || Design and fabrication of nonvolatile logic-in-memory circuits and their applications || Challenge of nonvolatile logic LSI for IoT applications   || {{attach_anchor('hanyu.txt')}}
||Yong Hei || Universal asynchronous model plus higher and lower level support || There is Enough for All - Part 3 || {{attach_anchor('Shonan2019_ARCabstract.txt')}}
||Warren A. Hunt, Jr || self-timed systems, formal logic, mechanical verification || Specification and Verification of Link-Joint-Style System Designs  || 
||William Koven || Industrial asynchronous design || Practical Mixed Asynchronous/Synchronous Design  || 
||Milos Krstic || low noise GALS & asynchronous circuits, fault tolerant asynchronous circuits, radhard design || Fault tolerant asynchronous design || {{attach_anchor('krstic.txt')}}
||Andrew Lines || async circuits & CAD || CAST+CSP+Proteus || 
||Rajit Manohar || design automation for async || teaching: from principles to tapeout in a semester  || {{attach_anchor('rajit.txt')}} 
||Mika Nystroem || ||   || 
||Naoya Onizawa || Stochastic computing ||  CMOS invertible logic using stochastic computing || {{attach_anchor('onizawa.txt')}}
||Marly Roncken || Universal asynchronous model plus higher and lower level support || There is Enough for All - Part 2 || {{attach_anchor('Shonan2019_ARCabstract.txt')}} 
||Hiroshi Saito || Design automation, Bundled-data design || A design support tool set for bundled-data implementation  || {{attach_anchor('saito.txt')}} 
||Shogo Semba || Design automation, Bundled-data design || Conversion from synchronous RTL models to asynchronous ones  || {{attach_anchor('semba.txt')}} 
||Montek Singh || ||   || 
||Scott C. Smith || Low-Power, Rad-hard, & Extreme Environment QDI Design, Design Automation, Verification ||Verification of  QDI Circuits  || {{attach_anchor('SCSmith.txt')}}
||Jens Sparsoe ||Designing asynchronous circuits. Networks-on-chip. Teaching. || Asyncchronous in mesochronous (Timing analysis). Teaching and Tools: where are we? || {{attach_anchor('sparsoe-abstract.txt')}}
||Andreas Steininger || Fault-tolerant async design, QDI, DI coding, clock domain crossing, metastability || Fault modeling and fault masking in asynchronous circuits || {{attach_anchor('steininger.txt')}} 
||Ken Stevens || Timing, verification, and modeling ||  Breaking through the inertia: the force to move asynchronous design into the mainstream || 
||Ivan Sutherland || Universal asynchronous model plus higher and lower level support || There is Enough for All - Part 1 || {{attach_anchor('Shonan2019_ARCabstract.txt')}} 
||Nobuyuki Yoshikawa || Energy-efficient superconducting logic circuits|| Synchronous and asynchronous LSI design for energy-efficient superconducting logic circuits   || {{attach_anchor('yoshikawa.txt')}} 
||Daniel Zimmerman || correct-by-construction high-level synthesis ||   ||

! Final Program (updated on May 15)

* 5/15 (Wed)
** 18:00-19:30 Registration
** 19:30-21:00 Welcome Reception

* 5/16 (Thu) @ Research Wing 208
**  9:00-10:00 Opening, Introduction by everybody (1 min. per person)
** 10:00-11:00 6 Talks (10min. per person) 
***	      Ivan
***	      Marly
***	      Yong
***	      Peter
***	      Hiroshi
***	      Shogo
** 11:00-11:15 (Break)
** 11:15-12:15 6 Talks (10min. per person)
***	      Jordi
***	      Masashi
***	      Ney
***	      Scott
***	      Andreas
*** 	      Montek
** 12:15-14:00 (Lunch)
** 14:00-14:20 Photo Session (Meet at the front desk)
** 14:20-15:20 6 Talks (10min. per person)
*** 	      Mika
***	      Jens
***	      Snorre
***	      Jia
***	      Huimei
***	      Rajit
** 15:30-15:45 (Break)
** 15:45-16:45 6 Talks (10min. per person)
***	      Andrew
***	      Alex
***	      Warren
***	      Milos
*** 	      Matthias
***	      Hong
** 17:00-17:15 (Break)
** 17:15-18:25 7 Talks (10min. per person)
***	      Ken
***	      Tomohiro
***	      Daniel
***	      William
***	      Mark
*** 	      Takahiro
*** 	      Naoya
** 18:45-19:45     (Dinner)
** 19:45-  Discussions for tomorrow's panels with drinks (@ Research Wing 208)
*** Peter (Chair)

* 5/17 (Fri)
** 09:00-10:10 Panel 1: Open source
*** Alex (chair)
*** Panelists
**** Andrew
**** Rajit
** 10:10-10:15 (Break)
** 10:15-11:10 Panel 2: Community involvement
*** Montek (chair)
*** Panelists
**** All
** 11:10-11:20 (Break)
** 11:20-12:00 Panel 3: Next day planning
*** Peter (chair)
** 12:00-13:30 (Lunch)
** 13:30-20:45 Excursion (Dinner is included)
*** (The detailed schedule is shown in {{attach_anchor('Kamakura Sightseeing Tour (Kotokuin-Hase).pdf')}})

* 5/18 (Sat)
** 09:00-11:00 Panel 4: Education
*** Mika (chair)
*** Panelists
**** Peter
**** Rajit
**** Montek
**** Jens
** 11:00-11:15 (Break)
** 11:15-12:10 Panel 5: IP & library developer
*** Scott (chair)
*** Panelists
**** William
**** Jia
**** Ney
**** Jordi
** 12:10-13:30 (Lunch)
** 13:30-14:15 Panel 5: IP & library developer (continued)
*** Scott (chair)
*** Panelists
**** William
**** Jia
**** Ney
**** Jordi
** 14:15-15:15 Panel 6: User application
*** Ken (chair)
*** Panelists
**** Milos
**** Hong
** 15:15-15:45 (Break)
** 15:45-16:30 Panel 7: Next day planning
*** Peter (chair)
** 18:00-      (Dinner and Discussion in Lounge)

* 5/19 (Sun)
** 09:00-11:00 Panel 8: Tangible Next Steps
*** Peter (chair)
** 11:00-11:10 (Break)
** 11:10-11:30 Wrap-up and closing
** 11:30-13:00 (Lunch and Departure)

! Advance Program (updated on May 11)

* 5/15 (Wed)
** 18:00-19:30 Registration
** 19:30-21:00 Welcome Reception

* 5/16 (Thu)
**  9:00-10:00 Opening, Introduction by everybody (1 min. per person)
** 10:00-11:00 3 Talks (20min. per person)  
***	      Ivan
***	      Marly
***	      Yong
** 11:00-11:15 (Break)
** 11:15-12:35 4 Talks (20min. per person)
***	      Peter
***	      Hiroshi
***	      Shogo
***	      Jordi
** 12:35-14:40 (Lunch)
** 14:40-15:25 Panel 1: Bundled-Data Design: Opportunities & Challenges (Moderator: Peter Beerel)
*** Panelists
**** Jordi
**** Marly
**** Hiroshi
**** Peter
** 15:25-15:40 (Break)
** 15:40-17:00 4 Talks (20min. per person)
***	      Masashi
***	      Ney
***	      Scott
***	      Andreas
** 17:00-17:15 (Break)
** 17:15-18:00 Panel 2: Dual-Rail Design: Opportunities & Challenges (Moderator: Masashi Imai)
*** Panelists
**** Andreas
**** Andrew
**** Ney
**** Scott
**** Masashi
** 18:00-      (Dinner and Discussion in Lounge)

* 5/17 (Fri)
**  9:00-10:00 3 Talks (20min. per person)
*** 	      Montek
*** 	      Mika
***	      Jens
** 10:00-10:45 Panel 3: Teaching Async (Moderator: Mika Nystrom)
***Panelists
**** Jens
**** Rajit
**** Mika
** 10:45-11:00 (Break)
** 11:00-12:00 3 Talks (20min. per person)
***	      Snorre
***	      Jia
***	      Huimei
** 12:00-13:30 (Lunch)
** 13:30-20:45 Excursion (Dinner is included)
*** (The detailed schedule is shown in {{attach_anchor('Kamakura Sightseeing Tour (Kotokuin-Hase).pdf')}})

* 5/18 (Sat)
**  9:00-10:00 3 Talks (20min. per person)
***	      Rajit
***	      Andrew
***	      Alex
** 10:00-10:45 Panel 4: Open-Source Tools - Where are we? (Moderator: Alex Yakoviev)
*** Panelists
**** Peter
**** Rajit
**** Andrew
**** Alex
** 10:45-11:00 (Break)
** 11:00-12:20 4 Talks (20min. per person)
***	      Warren
*** 	      Takahiro
*** 	      Naoya
***	      Milos
** 12:20-14:45 (Lunch)
** 14:45-15:45 3 Talks (20min. per person)
***	      Ken
*** 	      Matthias
***	      Nobuyuki
** 15:45-16:00 (Break)
** 16:00-16:40 2 Talks (20min. per person)
***	      Hong
***	      Tomohiro
** 16:40-17:25 Panel 5: The Future of Async Design (Moderator: Tomohiro Yoneda)
*** Panelists
**** Ken
**** Matthias
**** Nobuyuki
**** Hong
** 18:00-      (Dinner and Discussion in Lounge)

* 5/19 (Sun)
** 9:00- 10:00 3 Talks (20min. per person)
***	      Daniel
***	      William
***	      Mark
** 10:00-10:15 (Break)
** 10:15-11:30 Wrap-up and Closing
** 11:30-13:00 (Lunch and Departure)

!Expenses

*The following rates cover overnight accommodation (single room) and full board (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) per day:
**Participants from academia: 8,000 Yen/day
**Participants from industry: 15,000 Yen/day

* You will be asked to pay the above expenses by your credit cards about 6 weeks before the meeting.

NOTE: In the above expenses, excursion fees are not included. We will ask you additional fee for excursion.

! Hotel Reservation

* The hotel rooms for the Shonan Meeting (4 nights from 5/15) have already been booked, and so, you don't have to worry about them. 
* If you would like to stay at the hotel before or after the meeting, please contact the Shonan meeting office (shonan [at] nii.ac.jp).

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