August 18-20, 1996 at Memorial Auditorium, Stanford University

Final Program

Organizing and Program Committees

Tutorials, Sunday, August 18, 1996

Morning Tutorial: Java Software Secrets, Chair: Sami Shao, Co-Founder, Java Startup

Afternoon Tutorial: Toward 10 Instructions/Cycle Uniprocessors, Chair: Yale Pratt, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan

Conference Day 1, August 19, 1996

• Opening Remarks, General Chair: Dennis Reinhardt
• Welcoming Remarks, Program Co-Chairs: Winfried Wilcke, Robert Garner

Session 1: High Performance Microprocessors, Chair: Norm Jouppi, Digital Equipment Corporation

• The HP PA-8000 RISC CPU: A High Performance Out-of-Order Processor, Ashok Kumar (Hewlett-Packard)
• Design Objective of the 0.35-micron Alpha 21164 Microprocessor, Gregg Bouchard, Pete Bannon (Digital Equipment Corporation)
• The Orca Chip… Heart of IBM’s RISC System/6000 Value Servers, Ravi Arimilli (IBM)

Session 2: Compilers and Emulation, Chair: John Mashey, Silicon Graphics, Inc.

• Wabi CPU Emulation, Paul Hohensee, Mathew Myszewski, David Reese (Sun Microsystems)
• A Parallelizing Compiler for UltraSPARC Systems, Partha Tirumalai, Vinod Grover, Xiangyun Kong, Michael Lai, Jian-Zhong Wang, Kurt Goebel, Chris Aoki, Peter Damr\
  on, Krishna Subramanian (Sun Microsystems)

Keynote 1: Microprocessor Architechture: The Next Ten Years and Beyond, Speaker: Bill Joy (Sun Microsystems)

Session 3: Memory Technologies, Chair: Winfried Wilcke, Sun Microsystems

• A Case for Intelligent DRAM: IRAM, Dave Patterson, Tom Anderson, Kathy Yelick (University of California, Berkeley)
• High Performance Caches: The Quiet Revolution, David Chapman (Motorola)

Session 4: Embedded Processors Chair: Robert Garner, Sun Microsystems

• ARM810: Dancing to the Beat of a Different Drum, Guy Larri (Advanced RISC Machines, Ltd.)
• StrongArm110: A 160MHz 32b 0.5W CMOS ARM Processor, Sribalan Santhanam (Digital Equipment Corporation)
• PicoJava: A Hardware Implementation of the Java Virtual Machine, Marc Tremblay, Michael O’Connor (Sun Microsystems)

Panel Discussion: Software or Silicon: What’s the Best Route to Java?, Moderators: John H. Wharton, Applications Research

• John Banning (Silicon Graphics Computer Systems), Brian Chase (Consultant), David Hardin (Rockwell)
• Martin Hopkins (IBM Watson Research Center), John Novitsky (MicroModule Systems)
• Mark Tremblay (Sun Microsystems), John Wharton (Applications Research)

Conference Day Two: Tuesday, August 20, 1996

Session 5: Multimedia Extensions for x86 Architecture, Chair: Teresa Meng, Stanford University

• Trade-off Considerations and Performance of Intel’s MMX Technology, Uri Weiser (Intel)
• The P55C MIcroarchitecture: The First Implementation of MMX Technology, Michael Kagan (Intel)
• Multimedia Instruction Set Extensions for a 6th Generation Processor, Rober Maher (Cyrix Corporation)

Session 6: Multimedia Accelerators, Chair: Steve Purcell, Chromatic Research

• The Trimedia TM-1 PCI VLIW Mediaprocessor, Gerrit A. Slavenburg, Selliah Rathnam, Henk Dijkstra (Philips Semiconductors)
• Hardware/Software Interaction on the Mpact Media Processor, Paul Kalapathy (Chromatic Research)
• VLIW Processor for Multimedia Applications, Edgar Holmann, Toyohiko Yoshida, Akira Yamada, Yukihiko Shimazu (Mitsubishi)

Session 7: The Touchstone Project Chair: Carole Dulong, Intel

• Touchstone – A Fresh Approach to Multimedia for the PC, Martin Randall, Emmett Kilgariff (Silicon Engineering)
• Multimedia Signal Processor (MSP) Summary, L.T. Nguyen, M. Mohamed, H. Park, Y. Pai, R. Wong, A. Qureshi, P. Psong, F. Valesco, H.D. Truong, C. Reader (Samsung)
• Custom VLSI for the Compositing Buffer and Media DAC Functions, Ali Djabbari (Fujitsu)

Session 8: Unconventional Uses of Silicon, Chair: Alan J. Smith, University of California, Berkeley

• Surface Micromachning: An IC-Compatible Sensor Technology, Bernhard E. Boser (University of California, Berkeley)
• AMULET2e, Jim Garside (University of Manchester)

Session 9: 3D Engines, Chair: Roman Ormandy, Caligari Corporation

• Permedia and GLINT Delta: New Generation Silicon for 3D Graphics, Neil Trevett (3Dlabs)
• Bringing Workstation Graphics Performance to a Desktop Near You: ViRGE VX, Phil Bernosky, Scott Tandy (S3 Inc.)
• InfiniteReality Graphics: Power Through Complexity, Brian McClendon, John Montrym (Silicon Graphics)