Advanced Program for 2002 ISSCC is available

[pm]

The advanced program for the 2002 International Solid State Circuit Conference is available the ISSCC website here.

There are some very interesting sections. The keynotes look interesting. I like the evening discussion sessions: "SOI: Solution or Indigestion", "Does Moore's Law Apply to Analog". The microprocessor papers look interesting as well.

Although this is probably interesting enough, I have an ulterior motive for posting this though... this year a paper that I co-authored was accepted for submission. Our paper is (6.6) "The 16kB Single-Cycle-Read-Access Cache on a Next Generation 64b Itanium Microprocessor" - that P.Mahoney is me. In fact, there are (if you count carefully), six McKinley papers scheduled to be presented this year - and this year I can say with confidence that there will be no last minute paper presentation cancellations.

Edit: Removed the password protected bit - since they appear to have changed the web page.

 

[Sohcan]

I still think you should be giving the presentation. 😛 (j/k) It looks like all three levels of McKinley's caches are being covered.

"When Will Optical Interconnects Appear on High-Performance Microprocessors" sounds interesting...

Hmm...check out page 55: "An 8-wide Superscalar RISC Microprocessor with Simultaneous Multithreading"....presented by Compaq...it sounds like the Alpha EV8. I thought it was cancelled?

 

[BurntKooshie]

It was cancled AFAIK (read about it everywhere). Perhaps the paper was submitted before the whole mess arose?

this link is password protected...the others that I went through were not.

 

[pm]

They changed the webpage and removed the bit about passwords being required to view the PDF.

I'm definitely an introverted engineer and, although I'm glad/proud that I participated in the development of the McKinley Level 1 Data cache, I have absolutely no desire to stand in front of hundreds of the world's finest circuit designers and talk about it. As Sohcan knows from ICQ conversations, this was a possibility at one point, and I was terrified at the prospect.

Re. the Alpha paper: Paper submissions were back at the beginning of Sept. so it was long after the project cancellation. OTOH, there's no reason why you can't submit a paper on a theoretical microprocessor that won't be productized.