20th International Workshop on
Post-Binary ULSI Systems

May 22, 2011
Gustavelund Conference Hotel, Tuusula, Finland
The International Workshop on Post-Binary ULSI Systems (ULSIWS) will hold its 20th annual symposium
on May 22, 2011 in Gustavelund Conference Hotel, Tuusula, Finland.

Final Program

Final Program: PDF file
9:30 - 9:40 Opening Remark
ULSIWS2011 General Chair, Naofumi HOMMA (Tohoku University, Japan)
9:40 - 10:30 ULSI Workshop 20th Anniversary Invited Talk:
     Prospects of Post-Binary ULSI Systems and Novel Reconfigurable VLSI Architectures
Michitaka KAMEYAMA (Tohoku University, Japan)
10:30 - 10:45 Break

10:45 - 11:10 Considerations of Incorporating MTJ-based Blocks into Existing FPGA Architecture Families
Luca Montesi, Zeljko Zilic (McGill University, Canada), Takahiro Hanyu, Daisuke Suzuki (Tohoku University, Japan)
11:10 - 11:35 A 2nd-Order Time-Domain Pre-Emphasis Technique and Its Experimental FPGA Implementation
Yasushi YUMINAKA, Shingo ISHIDA, Kenichi HENMI (Gunma University, Japan)
11:35 - 12:00 Platform-Independent Middleware Code Generation for Functionally Distributed Embedded Systems
C. Yamada (Okinawa National College of Tech., Japan), A. Makabi (Nagaoka University of Tech., Japan), Y. Nagata (Univ. of the Ryukyus)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Break

13:30 - 14:20 Invited Talk: Non-Binary Analog-to-Digital Converters
Takao Waho (Sophia University, Japan)
14:20 - 14:30 Break

14:30 - 14:55 Probabilistic Gates and Belief Networks
S. N. Yanushkevich, V. P. Shmerko, A. Abbasinasab, G. Tangim (University of Calgary, Canada)
14:55 - 15:20 Stochastic-Computation-Based Iterative Interference-Cancellation Algorithm for Wireless Communication Channels
Russell D. Dodd (University of Alberta, Canada), Vincent C. Gaudet (University of Waterloo, Canada)
15:20 - 15:30 Break

15:30 - 15:55 Partial Clones Over a Finite Set, a Brief Survey
Lucien Haddad (Royal Military College of Canada, Canada)
15:55 - 16:20 Boolean Differential Equations
B. Steinbach (Freiberg University of Mining and Technology, Germany), C. Posthoff (The University of the West Indies, Trinidad & Tobago)
16:20 - 16:30 Closing
ULSIWS2011 Co-Chair, Yasushi YUMINAKA (Gunma University, Japan)/i>

Workshop Committee

General Chairs:
Naofumi HOMMA
Graduate School of Information Sciences,
Tohoku University, Japan
Email: homma{at}aoki.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp
Shinobu NAGAYAMA
Graduate School of Information Sciences,
Hiroshima City University, Japan
Email: s_naga{at}hiroshima-cu.ac.jp
Co-Chair:
Yasushi Yuminaka
Graduate School of Engineering,
Gunma University, Japan
Email: yuminaka{at}el.gunma-u.ac.jp