Minutes - Mesa 1998

1998 IEEE COMPUTER ELEMENTS MESA WORKSHOP

January 18-22, 1998

The Arizona Golf Resort

425 South Power Road

Mesa, Arizona 85206-5295

Advance Program

General Chair: Robert Montoye, IBM Research (914) 945-3075

Program Chair: Christian Joly, LSI Logic (408) 433-7771

Registration: Jefferson Connell, Amdahl Corp. (408) 746-3303

Fax: (408) 746-7000

Treasurer: Jefferson Connell, Amdahl Corp. (408) 746-3303

Technical Committee on Computer Elements:

Committee Chair: Douglas Westcott, IBM (914) 435-8652

Vice Chair (Mesa): Robert Montoye, IBM Research (914) 945-3075

Japan Committee Chair: Akira Masaki, Hitachi Ltd 011+81+428+33-2005

European Committee Chair: Mario Vinsani 011+39+2+6779-8244

Workshop Theme: Smaller, Faster, How Much Longer?

Sunday, January 18, 1998

4:00-5:00pm Technical Committee Meeting, all welcome

5:00-6:45pm Registration and Social Hour

7:00-8:45pm Dinner

9:00-10:30 pm Evening Keynote Address:

CMOS Scaling, When Do We Fall Off the Log ?

Tak Ning, IBM Research

Manufacturing and Business Limits in CMOS Scaling

Dirk Bartelink, HP

Monday 8:30-12:00am

Session 1: Wearable Computers

Chair: Jim James, Consultant

1.A Wearable Computing: The Markets, The Industry, The Technologies

Jim James, Consultant

1.B Personal Area Network Technology:BodyLAN

Scott Baudhuin, GTE

1.C ViA Developments

Robert Palmquist, ViA Inc.

1.D Eyeglass Mounted Displays for Wearable Computing

Mark Spitzer

Monday 1:00-5:00pm

Session 2: High Bandwidth I/O Devices

Chair: Siamak Arhya, SGI

Cochair: Yoshiaki Hagiwara, Sony

2.A Fast IO for Fun and Profit

Robert Halford, Cray Research

2.B High Speed IO: Is The System the Bottleneck

Steven C. Miller, SGI

2.C IEEE 1394 System and Chip Sets

Scotts Smyers, Sony US Research Labs

2.D IEEE 1394: 400 Mbs and beyond

Erick Berndlmaier, IBM

Monday 8:00-10:30pm

Session 3: Enablers for the GigaHertz System

Chair: Carl Anderson, IBM

3.A Packaging and Systems Structures

Brad MacCredie, IBM

3.B Silicon Technology for Gigahertz System

Emmanuel Carbbe, IBM Research

3.C Test Insertion and Test Bandwidth for GHz Mixed Signal Systems

Dirk Bartelink, HP

Tuesday 8:30-12:00pm

Session 4: Low Power Update

Chair: Raminder Singh Bajwa, Hitachi USA

CoChair:Mishinori Nishihara, IBM Japan

4.A Power Challenges in Processor Design

Deo Singh, Intel

4.B Power Isues in Domain Specific Computing

Arthur Abnous, Dept. of EECS,University of California, Berkeley

4.C Controlling Supply-Voltage and Threshold-Voltage by Circuit Techniques

Tadahiro Kuroda, Toshiba

4.D Analysis of Notebook PC Power Consumption

Noboru Kamijoh, IBM Japan

Tuesday 1:00-5:00

Technical Interchange

Tuesday, 8:00-10:30pm

Session 5: Panel - Semi log performance forever

Chair: Al Alcorn

CoChair: Bindi Prasad, Intel

Panel Members:

Al Alcorn, Alcorn Engineering

Bindi Prasad, Intel

Allen Baum, DEC

Karl Guttag, TI

Tak Ning, IBM

Wen-Hann Wang, Intel

Wednesday, 8:30-12:00

Session 6: Internet Security, Authentication, Viruses

Chair: Bryan Ackland, Lucent

Cochair: Eugene Scuteri, Lucent

6.A Practical Security Concerns of Today's Communications Systems

Dan Heer, Bell Labs

6.C Fingerprint Acquisition Chip

Dave Inglis, Bell Labs

6.D Strong ARM PDA

Allen Baum

1:00 Workshop Ends