2000-2004, 2010+ Publications: Dr. D J Greaves.

D J Greaves, MA, PhD, MIEE.

Publications are now being placed in the online Computer Laboratory Publications Database but I have started adding some recent ones to this page as well.

System Specficiation, Hardware and Software Synthesis

  • 2011. `Distributing C# Methods and Threads over Ethernet-connected FPGAs using Kiwi'. DJ Greaves, S Singh. The Kiwi system achieves co-design by allowing nominated regions of C\# programs to be targeted at FPGAs while the remainder executes on unmodified .NET and Mono virtual machines. Using C\# attributes, certain methods are identified for separate compilation and collections of methods are mapped to multiple FPGAs or to workstations connected to a common Ethernet switch. Individual methods become RPC-callable entities for the top-level C\# thread running on one workstation, while server threads may run continually on other workstations or FPGAs. We illustrate the concept using minimal modifications to an Adobe Photoshop plug-in where the processing for each colour channel is farmed over the Ethernet to one or three remote entities which may each be either an FPGA or a workstation. At MEMOCODE 2011 PDF.

  • 2010. `Synthesis of Glue Logic, Transactors, Multiplexors and Serialisors from Protocol Specifications.' Whitepaper PDF. Slides PDF. At Forum on Description Languages 2010, FDL'10, Southampton, UK.

  • 2004. `Automated Hardware Synthesis from Formal Specification using SAT solvers' DJ Greaves. RSP 2004, Geneva. Paper PDF, slides PPT.

  • 2004. `Automated Hardware Synthesis from Formal Specification using Symbolic Model Checking.' System and circuit design can be considered as planning problems, where resources are deployed in time and space to meet a given goal. At the lowest level, systems and circuits are finite state automata that must meet their design specification in all reachable operating states, but these constraints may be relaxed during a system start-up phase. In this paper we show how symbolic model checking can be used to synthesise hardware systems that conform to such specifications. We include an example each of gate-level synchonous logic, gate-level asynchronous logic and higher-level component module integration. We also demonstrate how to synthesise protocols that are guaranteed to recover from errors. Submitted to ????.

  • 2003. `High-Level Hardware Specifications' Keynote Talk. DJ Greaves. 3rd U.K. ACM SIGDA Workshop www.sigda.org.uk, PDF.

  • 2003. ` Using RTL-to-C++ translation for large SoC concurrent engineering: a case study.' W Stoye, N Richards, D Greaves and J Green. DesignCon 2003 Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, January 27-30, 2003. Also appeared as: Using RTL-to-C++ translation for concurrent engineering. William Stoye, David Greaves, Neil Richards, James Green. in IEE Electronic Systems and Software - Feb 2003. Link. Link2.

  • 2000. VTOC Verilog to C Compiler. This paper was presented at RSP 2000 in Paris:   abstract (ascii)

General Networking

  • 2002. `Performance Of A Home Lan Over Homepna 2.0 Stations' S Suh and DJ Greaves. 8th IEEE International Conference on Communication Systems (ICCS 2002), 25-28 Nov. 2002 Page(s): 661 - 668 vol.2.

  • 2002. `Application of a multi-carrier modulation to a nondeterministic MAC based home LAN and its effect on performance.' S Suh and DJ Greaves. 8th IEEE International Conference on Communication Systems (ICCS 2002), Nov 2002

Reliable Scripting and Embedded Systems

  • 2006. `Using Simple Pushlogic'. DJ Greaves, D Gordon. At WEBIST 06.

  • 2006. `A LOGICAL APPROACH TO HOME AUTOMATION.' A Alvi, DJ Greaves. 2nd IEE International Conference on Intelligent Environments, July, 2006, Athens (http://conferences.iee.org/ie06).

Home Networking

  • 2003. `Agile Programming For Mobile Adaptive Systems.' T Omitola and DJ Greaves. Presented at the ANWIRE Workshop at FMOODS 2003, Paris.

  • 2003. `Towards Autonomous Dependable Systems', presented at Cabernet Workshop November 2003. T Omitola and DJ Greaves.

  • 2002. `Control Software for Home Automation'. DJ Greaves. Accepted for `International Workshop on Smart Appliances and Wearable Computing (IWSAWC 2002)', July 2nd, Vienna 2002. PDF.

  • 2001. `Internet Access to Home Area Network' Umar Saif, Daniel Gordon, David Greaves IEEE Internet Computing 54-63: Vol. 5, No. 1, January/February 2001.

  • 2001. `Context-aware Adaptation in UbiqtOS: A Java-based Embedded Operating System for Ubiquitous Computing'. "Umar Saif, David Greaves" 5-minute presentation + poster at ACM SOSP 2001. Banff, Canada. We present a bottom-up design of an extensible, Java-based embedded operating system that lends itself to secure, efficient, context-driven adaptation. A universal, eternal substrate is embedded in resources to enable effective participation in the system.

  • 1996. `ATM for Video and Audio on Demand'. Despite the massive amount of work we did on the Cambridge Interactive TV Trial, I only have one publication to show. This was presented to the Audio Engineering Society, in 1996 and they did not really believe the message in the paper. However, their 2000 conference was almost entirely dedicated to audio in packets. AES Paper (.pdf)   AES Paper Abstract (ascii).

  • 2001. "Communication Primitives for Ubiquitous Systems or RPC Considered Harmful". Umar Saif, David J. Greaves. Proceedings of 21st International Conference of Distributed Computing Systems (Workshop on Smart Appliances and Wearable Computing), 2001.
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