Publications

2016

Timing Path-Driven Cycle Cutting for Sequential Controllers
William Lee, Vikas S. Vij, and Kenneth S. Stevens. – In the ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), Vol. 21, No. 4, Article 64, pp. 1-25, June –  Full Text

Qualifying Relitive Timing Constraints for Asyncronous Circuits
Jotham V. Manoranjan and Kenneth S. Stevens. – In the International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems, May – Full Text

Comparison of channel protocols for low latency, low energy communication over transmission lines
Shomit Das and Kenneth S. Stevens. – In the TAU 2016 Workshop, pp.15-20, March – Full Text

Relative Placement in Timed Asynchronous Design
Tannu Sharma, William Lee, and Kenneth S. Stevens. – In the TAU 2016 Workshop, pp.120-123, March – Full Text

2014

An A-FPGA Architecture for Relative Timing Based Asynchronous Designs
Jotham V. Manoranjan and Kenneth S. Stevens. –  In the International Conference on Reconfigurable Computing and FPGAs, pp. 76-81, December – Full Text

Burst-Mode Asynchronous Controller Implementation on FPGA Using Relative Timing
Jotham V. Manoranjan and Kenneth S. Stevens. – In the IX Southern Conference on Programmable Logic (SPL), pp. 89-94, November – Full Text

Modelling Mixed 4phase Pipelines: Structures and Patterns
Graham M. Birtwistle and Kenneth S. Stevens. – In the 20th International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems, pp. 27-36, May – Full Text

Interfacing Synchronous and Asynchronous Domains for Open Core Protocol
Vikas S. Vij, Raghu Prasad Gudla, and Kenneth S. Stevens. – 20th International Conference on VLSI Design, pp. 282-287, January – Full Text

A Design Space and its Patterns: Modelling 2phase Asynchronous Pipelines
Graham Birtwistle and Kenneth S. Stevens. –  In HOWARD-60: A Festschrift on the Occasion of Howard Barringer’s 60th Birthday. Andrei Voronkov and Margarita Korovina, editors, pp. 34-65, Easychair – Full Text

2013

Automatic Addition of Reset in Asynchronous Sequential Control Circuits
Vikas S. Vij and Kenneth S. Stevens. – In the IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI-SoC), pp. 374-379, October – Full Text

Symbolic Verification of Timed Asynchronous Hardware Protocols
Krishnaji Desai, Kenneth S. Stevens, John O’Leary. -In the Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI), pp. 147-152, August – Full Text

A Low Power UART Design Based on Asynchronous Techniques
Dipanjan Bhadra, Vikas S. Vij, and Kenneth S. Stevens -In the IEEE 56th International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), pp. 21-24, August – Full Text

SAS: Source Asynchronous Signaling Protocol for Asynchronous Handshake Communication Free From Wire Delay Overhead
Shomit Das, Vikas Vij, and Kenneth S. Stevens. – In The International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems, pp. 107-114, May – Full Text

Leveraging the geometric properties of on-chip transmission line structures to improve interconnect performance: A case study in 65nm
Shomit Das, Georgios Manetas, Kenneth S. Stevens, and Roberto Suaya. – In The International Symposium on Network-on-Chip (NOCS), pp. 1-2, April – Full Text

Design of Low Energy, High Performance Synchronous and Asynchronous 64-Point FFT
William Lee, Vikas S. Vij, Anthony R. Thatcher, and Kenneth S. Stevens. – In Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE), pp. 242-247, March – Full Text

2012

Design and Verification of Lazy and Hybrid Implementations of the SELF Protocol
Eliyah Kilada and Kenneth S. Stevens. – Book Chapter in VLSI-SoC: Forward-Looking Trends in IC and System Design, Editors: Jose L. Ayala, David Atienza and Ricardo Reis. Springer-Verlag New York, ISBN 9783642285653, February – Full Text

2011

Design of an Energy-Efficient Asynchronous NoC and Its Optimization Tools for Heterogeneous SoCs
Daniel Gebhardt, JunBok You, and Kenneth S. Stevens. – In IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Vol. 30, No. 9, pp. 1387-1399, September – Full Text

Link Pipelining Strategies for an Application-Specific Asynchronous NoC
Daniel Gebhardt, JunBok You, and Kenneth S. Stevens. – In International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip (NOCS), pp. 185 – 192, May – Full Text

Energy and Performance Models for Synchronous and Asynchronous Communication
Kenneth S. Stevens, Pankaj Golani, and Peeter A. Beerel. – In IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration, pp. 369 – 382, Vol. 19, No. 3, March – Full Text

Link Pipelining for an Energy-Efficient Asynchronous Network-on-Chip
Daniel Gebhardt, JunBok You, and Kenneth S. Stevens. – In the Workshop on SoC Architecture, Accelerators and Workloads in conjunction with HPCA, 6 pages, Feb. – Full Text

2010

Bandwidth Optimization in Asynchronous NoCs by Customizing Link Wire Length
Junbok You, Daniel Gebhardt, and Kenneth S. Stevens. – In the International Conference on Computer Design, pp. 455-461, October – Full Text

Synchronous Elasticization: Considerations For Correct Implementation and MiniMIPS Case Study
Eliyah Kilada, Shomit Das, and Kenneth S. Stevens. – In the International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration, VLSI-SOC 2010 pp. 7-12, September – Full Text

Concurrency Reduction of Untimed Latch Protocols – Theory and Practice
Santosh N. Varanasi, Kenneth S. Stevens, and Graham Birtwistle. – 16th International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems, pp. 26-37, May – Full Text

Comparing Energy and Latency of Asynchronous and Synchronous NoCs for Embedded SoCs
Daniel Gebhardt, JunBok You, and Kenneth S. Stevens. – In the Fourth International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip (NOCS), pp. 115-122, May – Full Text

Scalable Asynchronous Hardware Protocol Verification for Compositions with Relative Timing
Krishnaji Desai and Kenneth S. Stevens. – In the TAU 2010 Workshop, March – Full Text

Control Network Generator For Latency Insensitive Designs
Eliyah Kilada and Kenneth S. Stevens. -In Design, Autoamation, & Test Europe, pp. 1773 – 1778, March – Full Text

2009

Automatic Synthesis of Computation Interference Constraints for Relative Timing Verification
Yang Xu and Kenneth S. Stevens. – In 26th International Conference on Computer Design, pp. 16-22, October – Full Text

Clocked and Asynchronous FIFO Characterization and Comparison
HoSuk Han and Kenneth S. Stevens. – In 17th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration. pp. 101-108, October – Full Text

The Future of Formal Methods and GALS Design
Kenneth S. Stevens, Daniel Gebhardt, Junbok You, Yang Xu, Vikas Vij, Shomit Das, and Krishnaji Desai – In Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, Vol. 245, No. 1, pages 115-134, August – Full Text

Enhanced SDC Support for Relative Timing Designs
Eric Quist, Peter Beerel, and Kenneth S. Stevens -In Digital Automation Conference, User Track Poster, July – Full Text

Radiation Hardening by Design of Asynchronous Logic for Hostile Environments
David J. Barnhart, Tanya Vladimirova, Martin N. Sweeting, and Kenneth S. Stevens – IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, 44(5), May – Full Text

Characterization of Asynchronous Templates for Integration into Clocked CAD Flows
Kenneth S. Stevens, Yang Xu, and Vikas Vij. – 15th International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems, pp. 151-161, May – Full Text

Power Reduction Through Physical Placement of Asynchronous Routers
Daniel Gebhardt and Kenneth S. Stevens – 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Network-on-Chip, page 92, May – Full Text

2008

Fractional-Order Signal Processing using a Polymer-Electrolyte Transistor
Robert L. Ewing, Hoda S. Abdel-Aty-Zohdy, Michael C. Hollenbeck, Ronald W. Brower, and Kenneth S. Stevens. – In the Proceedings of the Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pages 601-604, August – Full Text

Capacitive Ionic Current Measurement in a Polymer-Electrolyte Transistor
Michael C. Hollenbeck, Kenneth Stevens, Ronald Brower, Robert Ewing and Hoda Abdel-Aty-Zohdy – In Proceedings of the National Aerospace Electronics Conference, pages 129-132, July – Full Text

Network Simplicity for Latency Insensitive Cores
Daniel Gebhardt, Junbok You, W. Scott Lee, and Kenneth S. Stevens. – 2nd International Symposium on Network-on-Chip, pp. 209-210, April – Full Text

Elastic Flow in an Application Specific Network-on-Chip
Daniel Gebhardt and Kenneth S. Stevens. – In Elsevier Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, Vol. 200, No. 1, pages 3-15, February – Full Text

Performance Evaluation of Elastic GALS Interfaces and Network Fabric
Junbok You, Yang Xu, Hosuk Han, and Kenneth S. Stevens. – In Elsevier Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, Vol. 200, No. 1, pages 17-32, February – Full Text

2006

Dynamic Response Characteristics of a Novel Electrolyte Transistor
M. C. Hollenbeck, H. Abdel-Aty-Zohdy, R. Brower, R. Ewing and K. Stevens. – In Proceedings of the COMSOL Conference. Boston, MA. pp. 19-24, October  – Full Text

Dynamic Gates with Hysteresis and Configurable Noise Tolerance
Krishna Santhanam and Kenneth S. Stevens. – In 15th Annual IFIP International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration, VLSI-SOC 2007. pp. 184-189, October – Full Text

Guest Editors’ Introduction: GALS Design and Validation
Mike Kishinevsky and Sandeep K. Shukla and Kenneth S. Stevens. – In IEEE Design and Test of Computers, Vol. 24, Issue 5, pp. 414-416, September-October – Full Text


2005

Dynamic Response Characteristics of a Novel Electrolyte Transistor
M. C. Hollenbeck, H. Abdel-Aty-Zohdy, R. Brower, R. Ewing and K. Stevens. – In Proceedings of the COMSOL Conference. Boston, MA. pp. 19-24, October  – Full Text

Dynamic Gates with Hysteresis and Configurable Noise Tolerance
Krishna Santhanam and Kenneth S. Stevens. – In 15th Annual IFIP International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration, VLSI-SOC 2007. pp. 184-189, October – Full Text

Guest Editors’ Introduction: GALS Design and Validation
Mike Kishinevsky and Sandeep K. Shukla and Kenneth S. Stevens. – In IEEE Design and Test of Computers, Vol. 24, Issue 5, pp. 414-416, September-October – Full Text


2004

Dynamic Response Characteristics of a Novel Electrolyte Transistor
M. C. Hollenbeck, H. Abdel-Aty-Zohdy, R. Brower, R. Ewing and K. Stevens. – In Proceedings of the COMSOL Conference. Boston, MA. pp. 19-24, October  – Full Text

Dynamic Gates with Hysteresis and Configurable Noise Tolerance
Krishna Santhanam and Kenneth S. Stevens. – In 15th Annual IFIP International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration, VLSI-SOC 2007. pp. 184-189, October – Full Text

Guest Editors’ Introduction: GALS Design and Validation
Mike Kishinevsky and Sandeep K. Shukla and Kenneth S. Stevens. – In IEEE Design and Test of Computers, Vol. 24, Issue 5, pp. 414-416, September-October – Full Text

 

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