Computer Education Laboratory

/ Kenichi Kuroda / Professor

The Computer Education Laboratory (CEL) had a blank period (no member) for a while and restarted again in summer 2000.

The academic area of the laboratory mainly covers computer design methodology. Educational course design for VLSI design and reconfigurable devices are the major themes of this lab.

Prof. Kenichi Kuroda, he joined this university in the fall in 1995. He had been a member of the Computer Device Lab for 5 years and moved to this lab in summer 2000. Before his coming to this university, his research topics were superconductor devices, SAW devices, and X-ray optics. After coming this university, he has been interested in VLSI design technology. Especially, dynamically recofigurable devices such as PCA (Plastic Cell Architecture) are the current major research target.

Refereed Proceeding Papers

1. Yuichi Okuyama, Kenichi Kuroda and Kiyoshi Oguri. Design Methodology for Applications Based on an Asynchronous Reconfigurable Architecture. Proc. of 2000 Int. Conf. Inf. Soc. in 21th Century (IS2000), pp. 356--361, Nov. 2000.

   This paper proposes a methodology for building application circuits for PCA (Plastic Cell Architecture) chips where an asynchronous reconfigurable architecture is employed. This methodology extracts asynchronous control logic from synchronous specified circuits. As the target language for synchronous description, we employ SFL (Structured Functional description Language), which is a kind of HDL (Hardware Description Language) used in synchronous circuit synthesis systems. We suggest a top-down method to design an STG (Signal Transition Graph) that represents asynchronous control logic without knowledge of asynchronous protocols.

Unrefereed Papers

1. Yuichi Okuyama and Kenichi Kuroda. Extracting asynchronous logic from SFL description. Proceedings of 16th PARTHENON Conference, vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 25, May 2000.

2. Mayumi Ichikawa, Yuichi Okuyama, and Kenichi Kuroda. Implementation Method of a Microprocessor into Dynamically Reconfigurable devices. 2000 Tohoku Section Joint Convention Record of Institutes of Electrical and Information Engineers Japan, vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 296, Aug. 2000.

3. Kentaro Ono, Yuichi Okuyama, and Kenichi Kuroda. Construction of Dynamically Reconfigurable Arithmetic Objects using Communicating Logic. 2000 Tohoku Section Joint Convention Record of Institutes of Electrical and Information Engineers, Japan, vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 295, Aug. 2000.

4. Yu Kohara, Yuichi Okuyama, and Kenichi Kuroda. Study on Management System for Dynamically Reconfigurable Devices. 2000 Tohoku Section Joint Convention Record of Institutes of Electrical and Information Engineers, Japan, vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 294, Aug. 2000.

5. Yoshonobu Igarashi, Yuichi Okuyama, and Kenichi Kuroda. Layout Methodology for Asynchronous Circuits on LUT Arrays. 2000 Tohoku Section Joint Convention Record of Institutes of Electrical and Information Engineers, Japan, vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 293, Aug. 2000.

6. Masayoshi Kurita and Kenichi Kuroda. Implementation of MPEG1 Algorithm in FPGA Devices. 2000 Tohoku Section Joint Convention Record of Institutes of Electrical and Information Engineers, Japan, vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 287, Aug. 2000.

7. Hiroko Kawamoto, Yuichi Okuyama, and Kenichi Kuroda. Corporative Distributed Maze Exploration by Autonomous Robots. 2000 Tohoku Section Joint Convention Record of Institutes of Electrical and Information Engineers, Japan, vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 178, Aug. 2000.

8. Yuichi Okuyama, Yu Kohara, Kentaro Ono, and Kenichi Kuroda. Prototyping Methodology for PCA objects by Software. Proceedings of 17th PARTHENON Conference, vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 20, Dec. 2000.

1. Kenichi Kuroda. Tohoku Branch Committee member of IEICE, 2000, Management of Steering Committee for 2000 Tohoku-Section Convention of Institutes of Electrical and Information Engineers, Japan.

2. Kenichi Kuroda. PARTHENON Society for Hardware Design, 2000. Management Board member.

1. Masayoshi Kurita. Master Thesis: FPGA Implementation of an MPEG Chip. Univ. of Aizu, 2001, Thesis Advisor: Kenichi Kuroda.

2. Nobuaki Igarashi. Master Thesis: Development of Layout Tool for Dynamically Recofigurable Devices. Univ. of Aizu, 2001, Thesis Advisor: Kenichi Kuroda.