Publications

• Synchronous Interlocked Pipelines.  Hans Jacobson, Prabhakar Kudva, Pradip Bose, Peter Cook, Stanley Schuster, Eric Mercer, Chris Myers. In proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Advanced Research in Asynchronous Circuits and Systems (ASYNC), April 2002.
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• Efficient Exact Hazard-Free Two-Level Logic Minimization.  Chris Myers and Hans Jacobson. In proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Advanced Research in Asynchronous Circuits and Systems (ASYNC), March 2001.
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• Power-Aware Microarchitecture: Design and Modeling Challenges for Next-Generation Microprocessors.  David M. Brooks, Pradip Bose, Stanley E. Schuster, Hans Jacobson, Prabhakar N. Kudva, Alper Buyuktosunoglu, John-David Wellman, Victor Zyuban, Manish Gupta, Peter W. Cook. In proceedings of the IEEE Micro, Vol.6, Nov/Dec 2000.
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• Achieving Fast and Exact Hazard-Free Logic Minimization of Extended Burst-Mode gC Finite State Machines.  Hans Jacobson, Chris Myers, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan. In proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), 2000.
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• High-Level Asynchronous System Design using the ACK Framework.  Hans Jacobson, Erik Brunvand, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, and Prabhakar Kudva. In proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Advanced Research in Asynchronous Circuits and Systems (ASYNC), 2000.
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• Application-Specific Programmable Control for High-Performance Asynchronous Circuits.  Hans Jacobson, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan. In special asynchronous issue of the Proceedings of IEEE, Vol.87, No.2, February 1999.
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• Asynchronous Microengines for Efficient High-level Control.  Hans Jacobson, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan. In the proceedings of 17th Conference on Advanced Research in VLSI (ARVLSI), 1997.
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• Synthesis of Hazard-free Customized CMOS Complex-Gate Networks Under Multiple-Input Changes.  Prabhakar Kudva, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, Hans Jacobson, Steven Nowick. In the proceedings of 33rd Design Automation Conference (DAC), 1996.
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• A Technique for Synthesizing Distributed Burst-mode Circuits.  Prabhakar Kudva, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, Hans Jacobson. In the proceedings of 33rd Design Automation Conference (DAC), 1996.
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• Imposing a Unified Design Methodology for Independent Rapid Prototyping Tools.  Anders Hedberg, Hans Jacobson, Mats Einarsson, Glenn Jennings. In IEEE International Workshop on Rapid System Prototyping Hardware-Software Codesign (RSP), 1995.
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Technical Reports

• Design and Validation of a Simultaneous Multi-Threaded DLX Processor.  Hans Jacobson. Technical Report, Department of Computer Science, University of Utah, U.S.A., UUCS-99-013.
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• Application Specific Asynchronous Microengines for Efficient High-level Control.  Hans Jacobson, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan. Technical Report, Department of Computer Science, University of Utah, U.S.A., UUCS-97-007.
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• Asynchronous Circuit Design - A Case Study of a Framework Called ACK.  Hans Jacobson, M.Sc. Thesis, Department of Computer Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden, May 1996.
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Talk-slides

• Synchronous Interlocked Pipelines.  Presented at ASYNC 2002, Manchester UK, by Hans Jacobson, Apr 2002.
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• Efficient Exact Two-Level Hazard-Free Logic Minimization.  Presented at ASYNC 2001, San Jose, by Hans Jacobson, 2001.
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• Achieving Fast and Exact Hazard-Free Logic Minimization of Extended Burst-Mode gC Finite State Machines.  Presented at ICCAD 2000, San Jose, by Hans Jacobson, Nov 2000.
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• High-Level Asynchronous System Design Using the ACK Framework.  Presented at ASYNC 2000, Eilat, Israel, by Hans Jacobson, April 2000.
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• ACK - An Asynchronous Circuit Design Framework.  Presented at Sun Microsystems, San Francisco, U.S.A., by Hans Jacobson, March 1997.
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• ACK - A Framework for High Level Synthesis of Asynchronous Circuits.  Invited talk presented at ASYNC'96, Aizu, Japan, by Dr. Alan Davis.
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