Erik Brunvand

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


o On-line version of my dissertation


Recent Publications

Journals:

o E. Brunvand, A, Denyer,``Micro-Scale Printmaking on Silicon,'' Leonardo, Vol 44, No. 5, Sept/Oct 2011

o D. Nellans, K. Sudan, E. Brunvand, R. Balasubramonian, ``Improving Server Performance on Multi-Cores via Selective Off-loading of OS Functionality, LNCS 2010

o Josef Spjut, Andrew Kensler, Daniel Kopta, and Erik Brunvand,``TRaX:, A Multicore Hardware Architecture for Real-Time Ray Tracing,'' IEEE Transacations on CAD, Vol 28, n12, Dec 2009. PDF is here

o David Nellans, Rajeev Balasubramonian, and Erik Brunvand, ``OS Execution on Multi-Cores: Is Out-Sourcing Worthwhile?'' ACM Operating Systems Review, Vol 43, No. 2, April 2009.

Conferences:

o E. Brunvand, ``Games as Motivation in Computer Design Courses: I/O is the Key,'' SIGCSE, Dallas, March 2011. PDF is here

o E. Brunvand, P. Stout, ``Kinetic Art and Embedded Systems: A Natural Collaboration,'' SIGCSE, Dallas, March 2011. PDF is here

o Erik Brunvand, Digital VLSI Chip Design with Cadence and Synopsys CAD Tools, Addison-Wesley, 2010. Book's web site is here

o D. Kopta, J. Spjut, E. Brunvand, A. Davis, ``Efficient MIMD Architectures for High-Performance Ray Tracing,'' International
Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), Oct 2010. PDF is here

o D Nellans, K. Sudan, E. Brunvand, R. Balasubramonian, ``Improving Server Performance on Multi-Cores via Selective
Off-loading of OS Functionality, WIOSCA, June 2010.

o D Nellans, K. Sudan, E. Brunvand, R. Balasubramonian, ``Hardware Prediction of OS Run-Length for Fine-Grained Resource
Customization,: ISPASS, March 2010.

o E. Brunvand, A. Denyer ``Printmaking at a Micro Scale,'' Impact Conference, Bristol, U.K., September 2009.

o D. Kopta, J. Spjut, and E. Brunvand, ``Grid-based Ray Tracing with CUDA,'' ACM/Eurographics High Performance Graphics, New
Orleans, August 2009.

o J.~Spjut, A.~Kensler, and E.~Brunvand, ``Hardware-Accelerated Gradient Noise for Graphics,'' ACM Great Lakes Conference on VLSI (GLSVLSI09), May 2009.

o E Brunvand, ``Printmaking with Extreme Technology, Southern Graphics Council Conference, Chicago, March 2009.

o D.~Kopta, J.~Spjut, E.~Brunvand, and S.~Parker, ``Comparing Incoherent Ray Performance of TRaX vs. Manta,'' IEEE Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing, August 2008.

o J.~Spjut, D.~Kopta, S.~Boulos, S.~Kellis, and E.~Brunvand, ``TRaX: A multi-threaded architecture for real-time ray tracing,'' In 6th IEEE Symposium on Application Specific Processors (SASP), June 2008. Winner of Best Paper award for SASP08.

o P. Shirley, K. Sung, E. Brunvand, A. Davis, S. Parker, S. Boulos, ``Rethinking Graphics and Gaming Courses Because of Fast Ray Tracing'', SIGGRAPH Educator's Workshop, 2007.
 
o Sven Woop, Erik Brunvand, and Philipp Slusallak, ``Estimating Performance of an Ray Tracing ASIC Design,'' IEEE Symposium on Interactive Ray Tracing (RT06), September 2006.

o Jung-Lin Yang, Erik Brunvand, and Sung-Min Lin, ``HDL Modeling for Analysis and Optimization of Asynchronous Controllers,'' International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems, ISPACS 2005, Hong Kong, December 2005.

o Jung-Lin Yang and Erik Brunvand, ``Self-Timed Circuits Using DCVSL Semi-Bundled Delay Wrappers,'' International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems, ISPACS 2005, Hong Kong, December 2005.

o David Nellans, Rajeev Balasubramonian and Erik Brunvand, ``A Case for Increased Operating System Support in Chip Multi-Processors,'' Second IBM Watson Conference on Interaction between Architecture, Cicuits, and Compilers, PAC2, New York, September 2005.

o Gaurav Gulati and Erik Brunvand, ``Design of a Cell Library for Asynchronous Microengines,'' Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, April 2005.

o Niti Madan and Erik Brunvand, ``Asynchronous Microengines for Network Processing,'' International Conference on Information Systems: New Generations (ISNG 2004), Las Vegas, November 2004.

o Niti Madan and Erik Brunvand, ``A Case for Asynchronous Microengines for Network Processors,'' Advanced Networking and Communications Hardware Workshop (ANCHOR) 2004, Munich, Germany, June 2004

o David Nellans, Vamshi Kadaru, and Erik Brunvand, ``ARCsim: An Asynchronous Architectural Simulator,'' Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, April 2004.

o Jung-Lin Yang and Erik Brunvand, ``Using Dynamic Domino Circuits in Self-Timed Systems,'' Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, April 2003.

o Jung-Lin Yang and Erik Brunvand, ``Self-Timed Design with Dynamic Domino Circuits,'' IEEE Annual Symposium on VLSI Design, February 2003.

o More Publications... slightly less recent...


Last modified May 2011