Bio:
Michael J Flynn received the PhD from Purdue
University and DSc (h.c.) from the University of Dublin.He began his engineering
career at IBM as a designer of mainframe computer.
Ø Computer
Architecture, the road ahead
Prof. Michael J. Flynn, Stanford University, USA
Abstract:
Continuing progress in the scaling of the silicon
technology enables continuing product evolution. But several shifts in design
emphasis are occurring. In the first shift more emphasis is placed on lowering
power by trading off increased speed. Power can be reduced by upwards to a
factor of one million times from current power levels. In a second shift
increased circuit density enables entire systems (computer plus memory and
communications support) to be integrated on a chip. These shifts enable
wearable (watch type) and other novel system oriented devices. As chip costs
fall interconnections and design time dominate costs. Thus
wireless/optical interconnections and reconfigurable logic
become significantly more important.
Bio:
Michael J Flynn received the PhD from Purdue
University and DSc (h.c.) from the University of Dublin.He began his engineering
career at IBM as a designer of mainframe computer.
He became Professor of Electrical Engineering at
Stanford in 1975 where he set up the Stanford Architecture and Arithmetic
group. He retired from Stanford in 1999.
In the early 1970s Prof. Flynn founded both of the
specialist organizations on Computer Architecture: the IEEE Computer Society's
Technical Committee on Computer Architecture and the ACM's SIGARCH.
Prof. Flynn was the 1992 recipient of the ACM/IEEE Eckert--Mauchly Award He was
the 1995 winner of the IEEE Computer Society's Harry Goode Memorial Award. He
is a fellow of both the IEEE and ACM.