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WARP: 6th Workshop on Architectural Research Prototyping
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Co-Located with the 43rd Int'l Symposium on Computer Architecture
Sunday, June 14th, 2015 -- Portland, Oregon
http://www.csl.cornell.edu/warp2015

Building prototype systems can be one of the best ways to validate
assumptions, gain intuition about practical design issues, and
provide platforms for future software research. While the research
ideas behind these prototypes can be published in top-tier
conferences, there are not many venues suitable for focusing on the
actual prototype itself. At the same time, building an FPGA, ASIC, or
full-custom computer architecture prototype is a non-trivial endeavor
and requires a significant financial and time commitment. This
workshop is intended as a forum for the builders in our community to
share their practical on-the-ground experiences, to provide a status
update on their progress, and to convey insights for those
considering prototyping their ideas.

This half-day workshop will be held on Sunday, June 14th, 2015,
co-located with ISCA-42 in Portland, OR. The technical program
committee and workshop organizers have selected a particularly strong
program from a record number of submissions. The 11 talks cover a
broad range of exciting prototypes including: millimeter-scale
full-system sensor motes and large-scale ASIC designs with 100's of
millions of transistors; chip tapeouts in older technologies, chip
tapeouts in a state-of-the-art 28nm process, and chip tapeouts using
3D integration; multicore chip tapeouts with heterogeneous
accelerators; and FPGA prototypes focusing on multicore processors,
network interfaces, and memory systems.

Participation is encouraged for anyone interested in learning about
some of the best prototyping work going on within the computer
architecture research community. Participation is also encouraged for
researchers that have recently constructed or are currently
constructing prototypes, for those considering embarking on a
prototyping effort, or even for those who strongly disagree with the
need to build prototypes.

*** Advance Program ***

 - "Prototyping Heterogeneous System-on-Chip Architectures:
    A System-Level Design Approach"
   L. Carloni (Columbia University)

 - "Post Mortem on Building 28nm/45nm RISC-V Vector Microprocessors
    with Chisel and the Rocket Chip Generator"
   Y. Lee, A. Waterman, R. Avizienis, H. Cook, C. Sun,
   B. Zimmer, K. Asanovic (University of California, Berkeley)

 - "State of the Akvario Project"
   A. Hindborg, N. Jensen, P. Schleuniger, S. Karlsson (Technical
    University of Denmark)

 - "Designing a Complex 25-Core Academic Processor"
   D. Wentzlaff, M. McKeown, Y. Fu, T. Nguyen, Y. Zhou, J. Balkind,
   A. Lavrov, M. Shahrad, S. Payne (Princeton University)

 - "From PDF to GDS: Designing the RoboBee SoC"
   B. Reagen, X. Zhang, D. Brooks, G.-Y. Wei (Harvard University)

 - "Lessons from Five Years of Making Michigan Micro Motes"
   P. Pannuto, Y. Lee, Z. Foo, G. Kim, D. Blaauw, P. Dutta (University
    of Michigan)

 - "NVM-Charade: Open-Sourced FPGA-Based NVM Characterization Scheme"
   G. Park, M. Shihab, L. Nahar, S. Kang, D. Donofrio, J. Shalf,
    M. Jung (UT Dallas and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

 - "Experiences with Two FabScalar-Based Chips"
   E. Forbes, R. Chowdhury, B. Dwiel, A. Kannepalli, V. Srinivasan,
    Z. Zhang, R. Widialaksono, T. Belanger, S. Lipa, E. Rotenberg,
    W.R. Davis, P.D. Franzon (North Carolina State University)

 - "Experiences and Lessons from a 3D Integrated Prototype"
   R. Dreslinski (University of Michigan)

 - "A 10G NetFPGA Prototype for In-network Aggregation"
   V.T. Lee, J. Nelson, M. Oskin, L. Ceze (University of Washington)

 - "Cymric: A Framework for Prototyping Near-Memory Architectures"
   C. Kersey, H. Kim, S. Yalamanchili (Georgia Tech)

*** Workshop Organizers ***

 - Christopher Batten, Cornell University
 - Dave Wentzlaff, Princeton University

*** Program Committee ***

 - David Brooks, Harvard University
 - Steve Keckler, NVIDIA/University of Texas at Austin
 - Mark Oskin, University of Washington
 - Jose Renau, University of California, Santa Cruz