Professor and  Department Head
Department of Computer Science
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

 

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Automatic Pipelining During Sequential Logic Synthesis

Thursday, 10 December 2015 at 9:20 in room BC 420

 

Abstract:

Elasticity is a paradigm that tolerates the variations in computation and communication delays. By applying transformations that allow elastic timing, circuits can be optimized beyond the conventional rigid transformations that do not modify the external timing. Pipelining is one of the classical techniques to improve the throughput of a circuit. This presentation will reveal how sequential logic synthesis can use elasticity to automatically derived pipelined circuits. The emergence of these techniques can enable a productive interaction with tools that can do microarchitectural exploration of complex designs.

About the speaker:

Jordi Cortadella is Professor and Head of the Computer Science Department at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and member of the Academia Europaea. He holds a M.S. and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 1985 and 1987). In 1988, he was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include formal methods and computer-aided design of VLSI systems with special emphasis on asynchronous circuits, concurrent systems and logic synthesis. He has co-authored numerous research papers and has been invited to present tutorials at various conferences.

Prof. Cortadella has served on the technical committees of several international conferences in the field of Design Automation and Concurrent Systems and is associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on CAD of Integrated Circuits and Systems. He received best paper awards at the Int. Symp. on Advanced Research in Asynchronous Circuits and Systems (2004), the Design Automation Conference (2004) and the Int. Conf. on Application of Concurrency to System Design (2009). In 2003, he was the recipient of a Distinction for the Promotion of the University Research by the Generalitat de Catalunya.