Robert French - Published Papers and Issued Patents

Papers

• The Multiprocessor as a General-Purpose Processor: A Software Perspective
  Saman P. Amarasinghe, Jennifer M. Anderson, Chris S. Wilson, Shih-Wei Liao, Robert S. French, Mary W. Hall, Brian R. Murphy and Monica S. Lam.
  IEEE Micro, June, 1996.

• Hot Compilers for Future Hot Chips
  Saman Amarasinghe, Jennifer Anderson, Robert French, Mary Hall, Monica Lam, Shih-Wei Liao, Brian Murphy, Chau-Wen Tseng, Chris Wilson, Robert Wilson
  HOT Chips VII, August, 1995, pp. 167-177.

• A General Method for Compiling Event-Driven Simulations
  Robert S. French, Monica S. Lam, Jeremy R. Levitt, Kunle Olukotun
  32nd ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, June, 1995, pp. 151-156.

• SUIF: An Infrastructure for Research on Parallelizing and Optimizing Compilers
  R. Wilson, R. French, C. Wilson, S. Amarasinghe, J. Anderson, S. Tjiang, S.-W. Liao, C.-W. Tseng, M. Hall, M. Lam, and J. Hennessy
  ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 29 number 12, December, 1994.

• SUIF: A Parallelizing and Optimizing Research Compiler
  Lam, Monica S., et al.
  Stanford Computer Systems Laboratory Technical Report No. CSL-TR-94-620, May, 1994.

• The Educational On-Line System
  Williams, Nick, et al.
  European UNIX User's Group Proceedings, April, 1990.

• Compiling for Computational Origami Using Probabilistic Optimization (PostScript)
  MIT BS thesis, June, 1990.

• A Simple Placement and Routing Algorithm for a Two-Dimensional Computational Origami Architecture
  Robert S. French
  Papers of the MIT-ACM Undergraduate Computer Science Conference, 1989.

• The Zephyr Notification Service (PostScript)
  C. Anthony DellaFera, Mark W. Eichin, Robert S. French, David C. Jedlinsky, John T. Kohl, William E. Sommerfeld
  Proceedings of the Winter 1988 USENIX Technical Conference, February, 1988, pp. 213-219.

Patents

• Controlling Multiple Context Processing Elements Based on Transmitted Message Containing Configuration Data, Address Mask, and Destination Identification
  U.S. patent #7,188,192 ... a continuation of:
• Local Control of Multiple Context Processing Elements with Configuration Contexts
  U.S. patent #6,751,722 ... a continuation of:
• Local Control of Multiple Context Processing Elements with Major Contexts and Minor Contexts
  U.S. patent #6,553,479 ... a continuation of:
• Method and Apparatus for Controlling Contexts of Multiple Context Processing Elements in a Network of Multiple Context Processing Elements
  U.S. patent #6,457,116 ... a continuation of:
• Method and Apparatus for Controlling Configuration Memory Contexts of Processing Elements in a Network of Multiple Context Processing Elements
  U.S. patent #5,915,123
  
  
• System and Method for Executing Hybridized Code on a Dynamically Configurable Hardware Environment
  U.S. patent #7,032,103 ... a continuation of:
• System and Method for Executing Hybridized Code on a Dynamically Configurable Hardware Environment
  U.S. patent #6,675,289
  
  
• Multi-Channel Bi-Directional Bus Network with Direction Sideband Bit for Multiple Context Processing Elements
  U.S. patent #6,990,566 ... a continuation of:
• Three Level Direct Communication Connections Between Neighboring Multiple Context Processing Elements
  U.S. patent #6,745,317
  
  
• System and Method of Processing Data Flow in Multi-Channel, Multi-Service Environment by Dynamically Allocating a Socket
  U.S. patent #6,912,576
  
  
• Multi-Channel, Multi-Service Debug
  U.S. patent #6,892,324
  
  
• Method and Apparatus for Retiming in a Network of Multiple Context Processing Elements
  U.S. patent #6,526,498 ... a continuation of:
• Method and Apparatus for Retiming in a Network of Multiple Context Processing Elements
  U.S. patent #6,122,719
  
  
• Method and Apparatus for Position Independent Reconfiguration in a Network of Multiple Context Processing Elements
  U.S. patent #6,108,760