Selected Industrial Cooperation with US Companies (only since 1990)

Note: The results/publications listed elsewhere are a direct or an indirect consequence of the industrial cooperation (R&D) listed here. In many of these cases, generated ideas resulted in new products or improvements of existing products. A partial list includes:

PURDUE University Research Foundation and NCR, West Lafayette, Indiana:
6 R&D topics in computer architecture (1990+1991+1992+1993+1994+1995)

HAWAII University Research Foundation and RCA, Honolulu, Hawaii:
5 R&D topics in computer architecture (1990+1991+1992+1993+1994+1998)

NCR Headquarters, Dayton, Ohio (and NCR Germany):
4 R&D topics in shared memory multiprocessing (1990+1991)
4 R&D topics in acceleration chips for multimedia PC (1991+1996)

ENCORE Computer Systems, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (and ENCORE Massachusetts):
4 R&D topics in distributed shared memory for PC environment (1992+1993+1994)
4 R&D topics in reflective memory multiprocessing (1996+1997)

TD Technology, Cleveland, Ohio (and MARUBENI/UNISYS + NIHON/MITSUBISHI Japan):
1 R&D topic in modeling for HLL simulation (1992)
1 R&D topic in modeling for silicon compilation (1993+1994+1995+1996)

AT&T Headquarters, Murray Hill, New Jersey (and NCR Ohio):
1 R&D topic in computer architecture (1994)

QSI in Santa Clara, California (and NEC Japan):
1 R&D topic in stochastic routing for ATM (1995)

ET Communications, San Francisco, California:
1 R&D topic in logic synthesis for silicon compilation (1996+1997+1998)

SUN Microsystems, Palo Alto, California:
1 R&D topic in cache memory (1996)

INTEL Corporation, Santa Clara, California:
1 R&D topic in cache memory (1996)

University of Pisa (and a consortium of Italian industry), Pisa, Italy
1 R+D topic in embedded multiprocessing (1998+1999)

University of Salerno (and a consortium of Italian industry), Salerno, Italy
1 R+D topic in system support for electronic business on Internet (1998+1999)

SSGRR, L'Aquila, Italy
1 R+D topic in system support for electronic business on Internet (1999)

Philips, Eindhoven, Holland
1 R+D topic in reconfigurable multiprocessing (1998+1999)

VCC, Los Angeles, California, USA
1 R+D topic in reconfigurable hardware for eletronic business on Internet (1998+1999)

Pisa: Multiprocessing for GPS - industrial experiment (1999).

Salerno: Education for WWW - industrial experiment (1999).

eTcomm, San Jose, California, USA (1999)

MainStreetNetworks, Morgan Hill, California, USA (1999)

TechnologyConnect, Boston, Massachusetts - Advisory Board Member.
www.technologyconnect.com

BioPop, Charlotte, NC - Advisory Board Member.
www.biopop.com

Ongoing projects for the years 2000 and on:
Internet infrastructure and Silicon compilation
(12 running contracts).

University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
Fraunhofer IPSI, Darmastadt, Germany
Panthesis, Seattle, Washington, USA
StorageTek, Denver, Colorado, USA
Lucent Technologies, New Jersey, USA
TheRightStuff, California, USA

Note: Implementations in 70's done as single designer; implementations in 80's done as a combination of project co-leader and single designer; implementations in 90's done as project leader; implementations in 2000's done as project leader and/or consultant. Major implementations include:

IMP: 2-microprocessor SISD for data transmission over leased lines (70's; volume production in 80's).

IMP: 17-microprocessor MISD for DFT in HF data transmission (70's; volume production in 80's and 90's).

RCA: GaAs RISC (80's; industrial experiment).

NCR: Vertical Migration CPU (80's; industrial experiment).

ENCORE: DSM for PC (90's; industrial experiment).

TDT: Clone of Intel i860, model for silicon compilation (90's; industrial experiment).

TELLCO: Suboptimal signal detector (90's; volume production).

TELLCO: Technological improvement of PCM-4 (2000's; volume production).

VCC: Internet acceleration hardware/software (2000's).

MSN: Internet acceleration hardware/software (2000's).