Research Interests

Asynchonous circuits, low-power circuits, compilers, algorithms, numerical analysis, CAD tools, electronic design automation, optimization problems, design space exploration, cool mathematical problems

Publications

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Ph.D. Dissertation

Profiling Infrastructure for the Performance Evaluation of Asynchronous Systems
David Fang.
Cornell University.
August 2008.
[pdf 1.3MB] double-spaced, accepted by grad school
[pdf 1.3MB] single-spaced, two-sided
Cornell Unviersity library link

Conference Papers

Variability in 3-D Integrated Circuits
Filipp Akopyan, Carlos Tadeo Ortega Otero, David Fang, Sandra Jackson, and Rajit Manohar
Proceedings of the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference
September 2008.
[pdf]

A Three-Tier Asynchronous FPGA (invited paper)
David Fang, Chris LaFrieda, Song Peng, and Rajit Manohar
23rd VLSI/ULSI Multilevel Interconnection Conference (2006 VMIC)
Septmber, 2006
[pdf 210k]

Self-Timed Thermally Aware Circuits
David Fang, Filipp Akopyan, and Rajit Manohar
ISVLSI '06: Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on Emerging VLSI Technologies and Architectures
March, 2006
ACM Portal
IEEE Xplore
[pdf 130k]

A High-Performance Asynchronous FPGA: Test Results.
David Fang, John Teifel, and Rajit Manohar.
2005 IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM '05)
April, 2005.

Automated Synthesis for Asynchronous FPGAs
Song Peng, David Fang, John Teifel and Rajit Manohar.
Proc. of International Symposium on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), 2005.
Monterrey, CA,
February, 2005.
[pdf 240k]

Non-Uniform Access Asynchronous Register Files.
David Fang and Rajit Manohar.
Proc. of 10th International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems.
Hersonissos, Crete,
April 2004.
[pdf 240k]

Energy-Efficient Pipelines.
J. Teifel, D. Fang, D. Biermann, C. Kelly, R. Manohar.
Proc. of 8th International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems.
Manchester, UK,
April 2002.
[pdf 500k]

Master's Thesis

Width-Adaptive and Non-Uniform Access Asynchronous Register Files.
David Fang.
Cornell University.
January 2004. (completed Fall 2003)
[pdf 2MB] double-spaced, accepted by grad school
[pdf 2MB] single-spaced, bonus content!

Technical Reports