Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 21:22:01 GMT Server: Apache/1.1.1+ Content-type: text/html Content-length: 3411 Last-modified: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 22:40:02 GMT Erik Brunvand

Erik Brunvand

Associate Professor
Computer Science Department
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
elb@cs.utah.edu


For more information, see my plan file.

Professor Brunvand joined the Department of Computer Science in 1990. He has interests in computer architecture and VLSI systems in general, and self-timed and asynchronous systems in particular. One aspect of his research involves compiling concurrent communicating programs into asynchronous VLSI circuits. The current system allows programs written in a subset of occam, a concurrent message-passing programming language based on CSP, to be automatically compiled into a set of self-timed circuit modules suitable for manufacture as an integrated circuit. He is also interested in investigating the effects of asynchrony on computer systems architecture at a higher level. To explore these ideas he is building a series of prototype asynchronous computer systems out of FPGA and custom VLSI chips.


Asynchronous Circuits Symposia

I was recently involved (as co-general-chair) in organizing the first International Symposium on Advanced Research in Asynchronous Circuits and Systems (Async94) which was held at the University Park Hotel in Salt Lake City from November 3-5 1994. See the Async94 home page for more details.

The 1996 conference, Async96, was held in Aizu, Japan from March 18-21, 1996. A rousing success! Check out the Async96 home page for more information.

The 1997 confernce, Async97, will be held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, from April 7-10 1997. The Async97 home page has more details.


Asynchronous Circuits Tutorial

I gave a tutorial on asynchronous circuits at the 2nd Working Conference on Asynchronous Design Methodologies in London. If you're curious and would like to see the slides, they are available as a postscript file containing the slides, one per page, or in a more compact format as a postscript file with four slides per page.


Computer Folklore

I gave a paper on computer folklore entitled The Heroic Hacker: Legends of the Computer Age at the American Folklore Society annual meeing in Pittsburgh, PA (October 1996). Materials relating to this talk Can be found here


Academic Details...

o Publications
o Patents
o Research Grants

Communication is welcome at elb@cs.utah.edu.

Last modified Oct. 14 1996