Erik Brunvand

Associate Professor, School of Computing
Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 1991

Professor Brunvand joined the faculty 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.

Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, Prabhakar Kudva, and Erik Brunvand, ``Peephole Optimization of Asynchronous Macromodule Networks,'' IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, Vol. 7, No 1, March 1999.
William Richardson and Erik Brunvand, ``Fred: A Decoupled Self-Timed Computer Architecture with Precise Exceptions,'' IEE Proceedings on Computers and Digital Techniques, Special issue on Asynchronous Processors. Vol. 143, No. 5, September 1996.
Erik Brunvand, Steven Nowick, and Kenneth Yun, ``Modern Asynchronous Circuit Design,'' TAU-99, Monteray, CA, March 1999.
J. Carter, W. Hsieh, L. Stoller, M. Swanson, L. Zhang, E. Brunvand, A. Davis, C.-C. Kuo, R. Kuramkote, M. Parker, L. Schaelicke, and T. Tateyama, ``Impulse: Building a Smarter Memory Controller,'' The Proceedings of the Fifth Internationl Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture, Jan 1999
Ajay Khoche and Erik Brunvand, ``Critical Hazard-Free Test Generation for Asynchronous Circuits,'' VLSI Test Symposium (VTS'97).
William Richardson and Erik Brunvand, ``Precise Exception Handling for a Self-Timed Processor,'' in IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD95) Winner of best paper award in Design & Test track at ICCD95.

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