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Announcement and Advance  Program

**SIS'93**

1993 University of Washington 
Symposium on Integrated Systems

March 15-16, 1993

University of Washington
Seattle, Washington


		SYMPOSIUM ON INTEGRATED SYSTEMS

The Symposium on Integrated Systems is a descendent of the Conferences
on Advanced Research in VLSI initiated by Caltech and MIT.  It is the
15th in a series that has been held at Caltech, MIT, UNC Chapel Hill,
Stanford, UC Santa Cruz, and Brown.  Like those conferences, it will
continue the tradition of providing a forum for the highest quality
papers on topics relating to VLSI systems.  Unlike those conferences,
it has a new title and a new emphasis, namely systems integration
issues in microelectronic systems "from the chips up."  Recent
advances in microelectronic technologies have enabled new
architectures and applications requiring highly integrated or
large-scale systems.  Given this goal, the conference will include a
wide range of interrelated disciplines, including:  basic technology,
circuits and devices, VLSI architectures, design automation, and
applications.


	**Program Committee**

General Chair:  Lawrence Snyder, U. of Washington
Program Co-Chair: Gaetano Borriello, U. of Washington
Program Co-Chair: Carl Ebeling, U. of Washington
Anant Agarwal, MIT; Bob Brodersen, UC Berkeley; 
Paul Chow, U. of Toronto; Allan Fisher, Carnegie Mellon University; 
Ed Frank, Sun Microsystems; Mark Horowitz, Stanford University; 
Norm Jouppi, DEC; Dick Lyon, Apple Computer; 
Alain Martin, Caltech; Trevor Mudge, U. of Michigan; 
John Poulton, UNC Chapel Hill; Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, UC Berkeley; 
Martine Schlag, UC Santa Cruz; Bob Sproull, Sun Microsystems; 
Tom Szymanski, AT&T Bell Labs; Jean Vuillemin, DEC-Paris Research Lab


	**Program**

Sunday, March 14, 1993
 6:00-8:00pm	Opening reception


Monday, March 15, 1993
 8:00-8:30am	Continental Breakfast

 8:30-9:30am  	Session I:
   Introduction and Welcome
	Larry Snyder; U. of Washington
   Keynote Address:  "Designing a Computer as a Microprocessor:
     Experience and Lessons from the MIPS 4000" 
	John Hennessy; Stanford University

 9:30-10:30am 	Session II:  (Moderator:  E. Frank)
   "The Design of the Caltech Mosaic C Multicomputer" 
	Seitz, Seizovic, Su; Caltech
   "RAID-II:  Design and Implementation of a Large Scale Disk Array
     Controller"
	Katz, Chen, Drapeau, Lee, Lutz, Miller, Patterson, Seshan; UC
	Berkeley 

10:30-11:00am 	Break

11:00-12:30pm  	Session III:  (Moderator:  B. Sproull)
   "Formal Specification and Verification of Abstract Memory Models" 
	Dill, Nowatzyk, Park; Stanford U.
   "An Area-Universal VLSI Circuit" 
	Bay, Bilardi; Thinking Machines Corp.
   "Delay-Fault Testing:  Trading Fault Coverage, Test Set Size, and
     Performance" 
	Lam, Saldanha, Brayton, Sangiovanni-Vincentelli; UC Berkeley 

12:30-1:30pm 	Lunch

 1:30-3:00pm	Session IV:  (Moderator:  C. Ebeling)
   "Programmable Active Memories:  a Performance Assessment" 
	Bertin, Roncin, Vuillemin; DEC-Paris Research Lab
   "A High-Speed FPGA Using Programmable Mini-Tiles"
	Chow, Seo, Chung, Paez, Rose; U. of Toronto
   "Spectral K-Way Ratio-Cut Partitioning" 
	Chan, Schlag, Zien; UC Santa Cruz

 3:00-3:30pm	Break

 3:30-5:00pm	Session V:  (Moderator:  T. Mudge)
   Invited Talk:  From Chips to Systems
	Charles Thacker; Digital SRC
   "High Speed 64-Bit CMOS Datapath" 
	Wawrzynek, Irissou; UC Berkeley
   "A High Speed Cache for a GaAs Microprocessor" 
	Chandna, Brown; U. of Michigan

 5:00-6:30pm	Break

 6:30-9:30pm	Conference Banquet/Panel Discussion


Tuesday, March 16, 1993
 8:00-8:30am	Continental Breakfast

 8:30-10:00am  	Session VI:   (Moderator:  M. Schlag)
   Invited Talk:  "Adaptive Analog Neural Networks"
	Federico Faggin; Synaptics
   "A Scalable Systolic Multiprocessor System for Biosequence
     Similarity Analysis" 
	Singh, Tell, White, Hoffman, Chi, Erickson; UNC Chapel Hill 
   "A Field-Programmable Gate Array for Systolic Computing" 
	Furtek; Concurrent Logic, Inc. 

10:00-10:30am  	Break

10:30-12:00pm	Session VII:  (Moderator:  N. Jouppi)
   "Edge-Triggering vs. Two-Phase Level-Clocking" 
	Papaefthymiou, Randall; MIT
   "Designing Salphasic Clock Distribution Systems" 
	Chi; UNC Chapel Hill
   "Practical Implementation of Charge Recovering Asymptotically Zero
     Power CMOS"  
	Younis, Knight; MIT

12:00-1:00pm	Lunch

 1:00-3:00pm	Session VIII:  (Moderator:  G. Borriello)
   Invited Talk:  "System and Technology Challenges in Ubiquitous
     Computing"  
	Mark Weiser; Xerox PARC 
   "Multi Module Focal Plane Processing Sensor with Parallel Analog
     Support for Computer Vision" 
	Tremblay, Laurendeau, Poussart; Laval U. 
   "Low-Power DSP Circuit Design Using Retimed Maximally Parallel
     Architectures"
	Duncan, Swamy, Jain; UCLA
   "Implementation of a Packet Switching Device as a Delay-Insensitive
     Circuit"  
	Yantchev; Oxford U.; Nedelchev; U. of Surrey

 3:00-3:30pm	Break

 3:30-5:00pm	Session IX:   (Moderator:  J. Poulton)
   "Electrical Design of a 1GByte/Sec High Performance Backplane Using
     Low Voltage Swing CMOS(GTL)" 
	Cheng, Yuan; Sun Microsystems 
   "High-Performance Bidirectional Signalling in VLSI Systems" 
	Dennison, Lee, Dally; MIT 
   "A Family of Routing and Communication Chips Based on the Mosaic"
	Seitz, Su; Caltech 

 5:00pm		Adjourn


		GENERAL INFORMATION

	**Hotel Information**

We will be using the Stouffer Madison Hotel for all conference events.
Situated in the center of downtown Seattle, the hotel is close to the
financial, business, legal, medical, major retail, and entertainment
districts.  The locations for the reception, banquet, and meeting
rooms will be posted in the Stouffer lobby on the reader board.

Please contact the Stouffer Madison directly to make your
reservations; be sure to identify yourself with the "UW -- SIS'93"
conference to receive noted rates.  These rates will apply for the
period March 13 - 16, 1993.  Reservations must be made by February 15,
1993.  Reservations received after the contracted block of rooms is
full or after the cut-off date of February 15 are subject to space
availability.

Stouffer Madison Hotel
515 Madison Street
Seattle, WA  98104
Reservations:  206/624-0300

	single		$115.00
	double		$115.00


	**Registration**

A registration desk will be set up during the conference.  It will be
open from 6:00-8:00 PM on Sunday, March 14th at the reception and
during the sessions (March 15-16) outside of the conference meeting
room at the hotel.


	**Reception**

There will be an opening reception for all conference participants at
6:00 pm on Sunday, March 14 at the Stouffer-Madison.  Wine and beer
will be served.


	**Banquet**

There will be a banquet at 6:30 on Monday, March 15th; symposium
participants are invited to attend.  The banquet will be followed by a
panel discussion of system building experiences over dessert and coffee.


	**Transportation**

There are several options to get from SeaTac airport.  The Airport
Shuttle (Grayline) runs every 20 minutes between the hotel and the
airport; the fare is $7.00 per person each way.  [Travel time is about
20 minutes.]  This shuttle can be boarded outside of the baggage claim
area.  Another option is ShuttleExpress, which will drop you off
directly at your desired location.  To contact a ShuttleExpress, press
#48 on a reservation center phone located in the baggage claim area.
A third option is a taxi, which should cost approximately $25.00-$30.00.


	**Information about Seattle**

Points of interest within Seattle include the Pike Place Market,
Pioneer Square, Seattle Center, the Woodland Park Zoo, and the
waterfront area which includes the Seattle Aquarium.  These areas can
be reached by public transportation from the hotel.  Within a two to
three hour driving distance from Seattle are three national parks:
Olympics National Park, North Cascades National Park, and Mount
Rainier National Park.


	**Climate**

Daytime temperatures in mid-March are expected to be in the mid-40s,
and nighttime temperatures in the low 30s.  Rain is likely.  An
umbrella is suggested, as well as a thicker outer jacket.


	**Further Information**

For further information, contact Kay Beck, Department of Computer
Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA  98195
at 206/685-3796 or by email at (kbeck@cs.washington.edu).



		SIS '93 REGISTRATION FORM



Category		Early	Late Reg.
			Reg.	(after Feb. 15)
Conference:
Regular Attendees	$250	$300
Student			$100	$100


Registration fee includes admission to:  technical sessions,
reception, banquet, continental breakfasts, coffee breaks, lunches,
and bound proceedings.


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		SIS'93 c/o Kay Beck
		Dept. of CSE -- FR-35
		University of Washington
		Seattle, WA  98195


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