| Date | August 16-18, 1998 |
| Place | Memorial Auditorium, Stanford University |
| Program | Final Program  |
| Committees | Not Available |
Tutorials
| Tutorials | Sunday, August 16, 1998 |
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| Morning Tutorial 08:30-12:00 |
Intellectual Property Law as Applied to the Computer and Electronic Industrties Chair: Margaret Jane Radin, William Benjamin Scott, Luna M. Scott, Professor of Law, Stanford Law School |
| Afternoon Tutorial 13:00-17:00 |
Fast CPUs are Good… but Fast I/O is Better Chair: Fred Berkowitz, Silicon Graphics Peripherals Team |
Conference Day One
| Session | Monday, August 17, 1998 |
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| Opening Remarks 09:00-09:15 |
General Chair: Allen Baum Program Co-Chairs: John Wawrzynek, Norm Jouppi |
| Session 1 09:15-10:45 |
High Performance Processors (Part 1) Chair: Monica Lam The Alpha 21264 Microprocessor: Out-of-Order Execution at 600MHz, Richard E Kessler (Compaq)
UltraSPARC-III: A 600MHz 64-bit Superscalar Processor for 1000-way Scalable Systems, Gary Lauterbauch (Sun Microsystems) Techniques for Mitigating Memory Latency in the PA-8500 Processor, David Johnson (Hewlett-Packard) |
| Session 2 11:15-12:45 |
Embedded and Embeddable Processors Chair: Kazuaki Murakami M32Rx/D – A Single Chip Microcontroller with a High Capacity 4MB Internal DRAM, Toru Shimizu (Mitsubishi) Genesis Microprocessor, Jack Choquette (SandCraft, Inc.) |
| Keynote 1 14:00-14:45 |
Chair: Monica Lam
Speaker: Greg Papadopoulos, Chief Technology Officer, Sun Microsystems |
| Session 4 14:45-15:45 |
Specialized Chips Chair: Alan SmithDesigning a Single Chip Chess Grandmaster While Knowing Nothing About Chess, Feng-hsiung Hsu (IBM)
Accelerating Cryptography in Hardware, Mark Birman (Hi/fn) The EMU10K1 Digital Audio Processor, Tom Savell (E-mu Systems, Inc.) |
| Session 5 16:15-17:45 |
High Performance Processors (Part 2) Chair: Mark TremblayIBM S/390 G5 Microprocessor, Timothy J. Slegel (IBM)
A CMOS Vector Processor with a Custom Streaming Cache, Greg Faanes (Silicon Graphics, Inc.) AltiVec™ Technology: A Second Generation SIMD Microprocessor Architecture, Michael Philip (Motorola) |
| Panel Discussion 19:30-21:30 |
Confronting the Microsoft Challenge Moderators: John H. Wharton |
Conference Day Two
| Session | Tuesday, August 18, 1998 |
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| Session 7 09:00-10:30 |
MPEG and Digital TV Chair: Gert SlavenburgA Single-chip MPEG2 MP@ML Video Encoder with Multi-chip Configuration for a Sinlge-board MP@HL Encoder, Toshihiro Minami (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp)
A Single-Chip DTV Media Processor, Selliah Rathnam (Trimedia Product Group) Two Chipsets for DTV Compliant with ATSC Standard, Hee-Bok Park (LG Electronics) |
| Session 8 11:00-12:30 |
General Purpose Processors with Integrated Media Support Chair: Kunle Olukotun MXi: A High Performance x86 Processor with Integrated 3D Graphics, Rajeev Jayavant (Cyrix) Novel Multimedia Instruction Capabilities in VLIW Media Processors, J.T.J van Eijndhoven (Philips Research Labs) SA-1500: A 300MHz RISC CPU with Attached Media Processor, Prashant P. Gandhi (Intel) |
| Session 9 14:00-15:30 |
Graphics Accelerators Chair: Bill Dally Blitzen: Lightning Speed 3D Geometry Accelerator, Alan Krech (Hewlett-Packard) Neon: A Big, Fast, 3D Workstation Graphics Accelerator, Joel McCormack (Mitsubishi) VelaTX – Innovative 3D Architecture Coupled with Embedded DRAM Architecture, Joseph C. Del Rio (Stellar Semiconductor) |
| Session 10 16:00-17:00 |
High Performance PC Processors Chair: Ruby LeeIntel i740 Graphics Accelerator, Tom Piazza (Intel) PERMEDIA 3 – A Third Generation Graphics Controller for the Mainstream PC and DirectX, Neil Trevett (3Dlabs) AMD 3DNow! Technology and K6-2 Microprocessor, Stuart Oberman (AMD) |