It is also recalled that ten years ago that is 5 months of 1997, beat chess champion ksparov super computer "deep blue".
At that time, this exciting news sparked the world's number one on the computer's confidence and enthusiasm! ten years have passed, do you want to know when the operation is "deep blue" complete this historic feat of xufeng-hung recently, in brewing something big invention?, known as the father of the "dark blue" xufeng-hung in 2003 joined Microsoft Research Asia, currently serves as the platform device group of senior researcher. Not long ago, he participated in Santiago, the "International Design Automation Conference", happened ten years ago in the same place he will win the dark blue to the audience after the exhibition. The following is an article he wrote about participating, let's share it.
Original: xufeng male translation: CAI xiongfei
I've rarely participate in international design automation Conference (DAC DesignAutomationConference, hereinafter referred to as ").
Previously in Silicon Valley, a meeting was held there, I will visit the exhibition free of charge. When I realized C2HDL compiler gradually developed into a utility, I decided to attend the Conference this year. Our assessment indicates that the tools can make C2HDL design staff productivity by 5 to 10 times, and you can help us use FPGA or other hardware to accelerate more complex algorithms. In addition, this type of tool can make ordinary programmers with a C/c++ language and non-proprietary hardware description language (such as Verilog) to design the hardware.
(Xufeng male doctor holding his "favorite" to put it down, really let us full of expectation)
This year's Conference held in San Diego.
My last visit here is already a decade ago, just after the deep blue beat ksparov, our team was invited to demonstrate the deep blue SupercomputingConference and before the public, so that the audience can be in close contact with it. This time, when I walk in the center of the venue, 10 years ago, the memory will gradually clear up. At that time was already is June, I took the summer short sleeve. But this is clearly a little mistake, Santiago morning temperature difference is very big. The go out at night, preferably donned a coat. Here the temperature not higher than North drove 7 hours at Silicon Valley high around, but I came here in ten years ago when they did not realize this.
DAC and many other similar meetings, and at the same time many parallel theme Symposium.
This is what I know the first only provide a DVD instead of printing the information of the International Conference, but it also allows us to select the session time felt a little awkward, because you cannot access their talks about what content, whether you are interested in. The Symposium's audience difference is not too much. The exhibition has attracted some of the audience, when I went to see the show, the discovery of a small exhibition. I am not very clear design automation and game what direct link, but I saw at least five Kiosk Demo with Nintendo's Wii video game. One of IBM's booth at the show with Xbox360. A large number of booths to Nintendo's Wii and Apple's iPod as a gift, to visit their booth and leave contact information of the audience. To some extent, this show than I have seen some of those are small, probably because IT effects of the economic bubble burst, but I have also seen after growing up in a number of emerging companies.
In total 53 large and different topic, there are a few I was quite impressed:
In the "new technologies" thematic interconnection, a very interesting article, entitled "rotate clock circuit design (Designof Rotary Clock BasedCircuits)".
It focuses on how to reduce consumption of power clock circuit. Thesis: clock circuits typically consume 20% of the overall power consumption. The article the author points out that their technology generally can clock circuit power consumption reduced by 70%. This programme can clock network becomes part of the oscillator, making the energy cycle. This basic clock network at present is a double-loop transmission line (double-ringedtransmissionline) model. Considering the clock offsets and network load with logical state, this is not a simple task.
When I went to the exhibition, also happens to be met with Taiwan University Professor of Guo Octavian.
One of his students at the General Assembly made a interesting papers report on how to enhance Flash life problems. We also consider as is limited to the hard disk of some application customization a read speed, bandwidth, big Flash drives. At present,The prevalence of mobile Flash's cost is probably 10 times of the hard disk, the response time is only 1/100 of the latter, therefore, it also has a great potential in speeds up to 100 times more for some applications.
In the "crazy ideas" in the subject, an article from France on adopting CNTFET (carbon nanotubes FET, carbonnanotubeFET) for reconfigurable logic circuit.
Clearly, by changing the back gate voltage (back-gatevoltage), CNTFET as P or N-type transistor, this feature can be used in the design of reconfigurable logic circuit. But this technique also remain in the theoretical phase.
In the "emerging Nano-hybrid circuits and schema" (Emerging Nanoscale Hybrid CircuitsandArchitecture) topic, there is another article describes reconfigurable structures using nanotubes technology.
In the article, nanotubes as a non-volatile storage unit that is used in the reconfigurable CMOS circuits. Nantero Inc. machine carbon nano-technology (mechanicalnanotubememory) has been in storage devices. Similarly, this technology is still in the concept stages, but the people than France are relatively mature. Another article describes how to use nano-electronic mechanical switches (nano-electro-mechanicalswitches) for ultra-low power applications. At first glance, this seems like a very crazy ideas, but is most likely a very constructive way. In the latest CMOS technology, leakage current is already making a static power reaches the dynamic power levels, and the situation is still deteriorating. From manufacturability, Samsung has recently reported their mechanical DRAM (MechanicalDRAM), further proof that this idea is possible. Samsung claims in DRAM with mechanical switch replacement door circuit, the storage time reached 280 hours, almost to the DRAM into non-volatile storage devices.
Overall, the automatic design of the treatise in the vast majority of the General Assembly is electronic design automation, and my own involvement in the field or a little different.
However, to participate in this Conference to learn about the industry's most cutting-edge trends or very helpful.
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