Al Davis

Former and current ski bum now masquerading as a nerd.

Professor
Computer Science Department
University of Utah

Work Address:

Al Davis

3424 Merrill Engineering Building

Salt Lake City, Utah 84112

Voice: (801) 581-3991

Fax: (801) 581-5843

Research Interests

• Parallel Computer Architecture
• Adaptive Memory Systems
• Asynchronous Circuits and Systems
• C-SAFE

Course Materials

As these links become available, they will take you to a course syllabus which contains links that may be followed to get individual lecture slides, sample exams, exam solutions, etc. Note that my PostScript previewer doesn't do a very good job on some of these files - printing them works, but hopefully your previewer is infinitely better than mine and you'll avoid all that useless paper. Good luck. The original slides were done in FrameMaker and sources are available on request.

• CS561 - Advanced Computer Architecture (graduate course)
• CS562 - Parallel Computer Architecture (graduate course)
• CS364 - Computer Systems (undergraduate course)
• CS577 - High Performance I/O Architecture

Other

• For the last 3 years, I have organized the department's Distinguished Lecture Series, this page also provides information on the Organick Memorial Lectures for the current year.
• For asynchronous circuits types note the upcoming annual ASYNC98 conference.

Schedule

Recent Publications

A. Davis, B. Coates, K. Stevens. Automatic Synthesis of Fast Compact Self-Timed Control Circuits. Proceedings of the IFIP Working Conference on Asynchronous Design Methodologies. Manchester, England; April 1993, pp. 193--208.

A. Davis, B. Coates, K. Stevens. The Post Office Experience: designing a large asynchronous chip. Integration Vol. 15, No. 3, November 1993, pp. 341-366.

A. Davis. R2 - A Damped Adaptive Router Design. Parallel Computer Routing and Communication. Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science #853. May 1994, pp. 295-309.

A. Davis, Synthesizing Asynchronous Circuits: Practice and Experience. Modern Asynchronous Design Practice, Chapter 3, pp.104-150, Springer Verlag Workshops in Computer Science, edited by A. Davis and G. Birtwistle). April 1995.

A. Davis, L. Cherkasova, V. Kotov, T. Rokicki, I. Robinson. How Much Adaptivity is Required for Bursty Traffic. To appear in the proceedings of the ISCA Seventh International Conference on Parallel and Distribued Systems. Las Vegas, Oct. 1994.

A. Davis, M. Swanson, M. Parker. Efficient Communication Mechanisms for Cluster Based Parallel Computing. Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science #1199, pp. 1-15, Feb. 1997.

A. Davis, Steven M. Nowick. An Introduction to Asynchronous Circuit Design. University of Utah Technical Report, UUCS-97-013, September 1997. [A version of this report will appear in the Encyclopedia of Computer Science.