Minutes - Mesa 1996

ADVANCE PROGRAM FOR

1996 IEEE COMPUTER ELEMENTS MESA WORKSHOP

January 7 - 10, 1996

Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society's:

Technical Committee (TC) on Computer Elements:

TC Chair: Bhadrik Dalal, Exponential Technology, San Jose, CA

Mesa Chairs:

General Chair: Robert Montoye, IBM Research, San Jose, CA

Program Chair: William Dussell, Trimble Navigation, Sunnyvale, CA

Program Co-Chair: Claude Bertin, IBM Microelectronics, Burlington, VT

Japan Chair: Akira Masaki, Hitachi Ltd., Tokyo, Japan

Arrangements: Bhadrik Dalal, Exponential Technology, San Jose, CA

Registration: Deborah Sakane, IBM Research, San Jose, CA

Treasurer: Laura Wood, Amdahl Corp., Sunnyvale, CA

Workshop Theme: PERVASIVE COMPUTING

Sunday, January 7, 1996

Evening Keynote Address:

"Media Processors Going the Last Mile"

John Moussouris, Microunity Systems Engineering, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA

Monday, January 8, 1996 PORTABLE COMPUTING

Morning Session IA: Design Considerations for Portable Computing

Session Chair: Neil Wilhelm, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Mountain View, CA

Session Co-Chair: Charlie Abraham, Trimble Navigation, Sunnyvale, CA

1.1 Power Management in the Apple Newton

Vivek Mehra, Apple Computer, Cupertino, CA

Morning Session I B: Designing and Verifying Large Chips

Session Chair: Terry Hulett, Advanced Micro Devices, Austin, TX

Session Co-Chair: Carl Anderson, IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY

1.2 Architectural Performance Modeling on PENTIUM PRO, Glenn Hinton, Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, OR

1.3 KS Functional Verification

David Reed, Advanced Micro Devices, Austin, TX

1.4 Some of the Things You Never Wanted to Know About Verification  or Were Too Afraid to Ask

Dan Beece, IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY

1.5 Timing Verification

Ken Shepard, IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY

Afternoon Session 2: Connection to Portables: PCMCIA, RF, Microwave, and IR

Session Chair: Karl Guttag, Texas Instruments, Houston, TX

Session Co-Chair: Michinori Nishihara, IBM Japan, Ltd., Yasu, Japan

2.1 Development of Signal Transmission Technology and ASICs for Digital Mobile Communications Systems

Makoto Miyake, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Kamakura City, Japan

2.2 Towards Convenient Cordless Computing

Brian lngham, IBM Canada, Toronto, Canada

2.3 Low Power DSP for Wireless Applications

Frederic Boutaud, Texas Instruments France

2.4 Card Bus 32-bit PCMCIA

Tony Wutka, Texas Instruments

Evening Session 3: Human Interface to Portables

Session Chair: John Alexander, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Session Co-Chair: Han Padmanabhan, Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA

Session Co-Chair: Jerry Merckel, Florida Atlantic University,

Boca Raton, FL

3.1 Video Compression for Portables

William Glenn, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL

3.2 Speech Recognition

Steve DeGennaro, IBM Research, Yorktown Hieghts, NY

3.3 Wearable Computing

Thad Starner, MIT Media Lab., Cambridge, MA

3.4 Handwriting Update

Ronjon Nag, Motorola Lexicus Division, Palo Alto, CA

Tuesday, January 9, 1996 GENERAL COMPUTING

Morning Session 4: Memory Hierarchy

Session Chair: Richard Crisp, Rambus Inc., Mountain View, CA

Session Co-Chair: Seiken Yano, NEC Corporation, Tokyo, Japan

4.1 High Bandwidth DRAMs for High Bandwidth Processors

Craig Hampel, Rambus Inc., Mountain View, CA

4.2 DRAM Alternatives

Steven Przybylski, Consultant, San Jose, CA

4.3 New Developments and Future Trends in the Disk Drive Industry

Robert Selinger, Adaptec, Inc., Milpitas, CA

4.4 Designing and Verifying Large Chips

Mario Vinsani, Bull H. N. Italia, Pregnana Milanese, Italy

Evening Session 5: Procession of Processors:

IBM 360/370/390 vs. Intel x86 vs. MedialGame Processor

Panel Chair: Robert Montoye, IBM Research, San Jose, CA

Panel Co-Chair: Bhadrik Dalal, Exponential Technology, Inc.,

San Jose, CA

Panelists:

IBM: Richard Case

Intel: Avtar Saini

TransMeta: Dave Ditzel

3D0: John Sell

MicroUnity: John Moussouris

Chromatic Research: Mike Farmwald

Wednesday, January 10, 1996 MULTIMEDIA

Morning Session 6: Multimedia

Session Chair: Ismail Eldumiati, AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ

Session Co-Chair: Bryan Ackland, AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ

6.1 A Single Chip CMOS Camera

Bryan Ackland, AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ

6.2 UltraSparc: A Microprocessor with Multimedia Extensions

Ralesh Parekh, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Mountain View, CA

6.3 ATM to the Desktop

Larry Roberts, ATM Systems, Foster City, CA