Teaching Assistant

Rob Rydberg

SoC Clock Domain Communication

R. R. Rydberg, III, J. Nyathi, and J. G. Delgado-Frias, "Clock skew tolerant communication scheme for SoC IP blocks," in Proc. of the IEEE MidWest Symp. on Circuits and Systems, Aug. 2008. pdf

J. Nyathi, R. R. Rydberg, III and J. G. Delgado-Frias, "Wave-pipelining the global interconnect to reduce the associated delays," in Proc of the IEEE MidWest Symp. On Circuits and Systems, Puerto Rico, USA, Aug. 2006, pp. 208 - 212. pdf

R. R. Rydberg, III, J. Nyathi, and J. G. Delgado-Frias, "A distributed FIFO scheme for on-chip communication," in Proc. of the 2005 Int'l Symp. on Circuits and Systems, Kobe, Japan, May 2005, pp. 1851 - 1854. pdf

R. Rydberg, J. Nyathi and J. G. Delgado-Frias, "A distributed FIFO scheme for system on chip inter-component communication," in Proc. Int'l Conf. on VLSI, Las Vegas, NV, June 2004, pp. 536 - 540. pdf

Sub-Threshold Architecture

V. Beiu, S. Aunet, J. Nyathi, R. R. Rydberg and A. Djupdal, "Serial addition: locally connected architectures," in IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems I. Vol. 54, Issue 11, Nov. 2007, pp 2564 - 2579. pdf

V. Beiu, S. Aunet, J. Nyathi, R. R. Rydberg, III and A. Djupdal, "On the advantages of serial architectures for low-power reliable computations," in Proc. of ASAP 2005, Samos, Greece, July 2005, pp. 276 - 281. pdf

V. Beiu, S. Aunet, J. Nyathi, R. R. Rydberg, III and A. Djupdal, "The vanishing majority gate trading power and speed for reliability." in Proc. of NanoArch 2005, Palm Springs, CA, May 2005. pdf

Wireless Sensor Networks

S. Medidi, M. Medidi, L. E. Compton-Drake, J. Wang and R. R. Rydberg III, "A lightweight key distribution mechanism for wireless sensor networks," in Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 6980, April 2008.

Master's Thesis

A GasP of Fresh Air: A High Speed Distributed FIFO Scheme for Managing Interconnect Parasitics. pdf

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