We study three problems. The first is the phenomenon of metastability in digital circuits. This is a state of bistable storage elements, such as registers, that is neither logical 0 nor 1 and breaks the abstraction of Boolean logic. We propose a time- and value-discrete model for metastability in digital circuits and show that it reflects relevant physical properties. Further, we propose the fundamentally new approach of using logical masking to perform meaningful computations despite the presence of metastable upsets and analyze what functions can be computed in our model. Additionally, we show that circuits with masking registers grow computationally more powerful with each available clock cycle. The second topic are parallel algorithms,...
The overall theme of the thesis is the transient behavior of certain distributed systems. The result...
International audienceSpace-time diagrams of signal machines on finite configurations are composed o...
The implications of pseudorandom modalities have been far-reaching and pervasive. After years of app...
We study three problems. The first is the phenomenon of metastability in digital circuits. This is a...
Communication across unsynchronized clock domains is inherently vulnerable to metastable upsets; no ...
When setup/hold times of bistable elements are violated, they may become metastable, i.e., enter a t...
Fixed-parameter tractability is based on the observation that many hard problems become tractable ev...
PhD ThesisThe state space of every continuous multi-stable system is bound to contain one or more m...
An algorithmic meta theorem for a logic and a class C of structures states that all problems express...
Friedrichs et al. (TC 2018) showed that metastability can be contained when sorting inputs arising f...
Error containment is an important concept in fault tolerant system design, and techniques like votin...
Abstract The unavoidability of metastable behaviour in digital circuit-components like flipflops, ar...
We introduce a logic called distance neighborhood logic with acyclicity and connectivity constraints...
Algorithmic metatheorems state that if a problem can be described in a certain logic and the inputs ...
This thesis focuses on problems which themselves encode questions about circuits or algorithms, also...
The overall theme of the thesis is the transient behavior of certain distributed systems. The result...
International audienceSpace-time diagrams of signal machines on finite configurations are composed o...
The implications of pseudorandom modalities have been far-reaching and pervasive. After years of app...
We study three problems. The first is the phenomenon of metastability in digital circuits. This is a...
Communication across unsynchronized clock domains is inherently vulnerable to metastable upsets; no ...
When setup/hold times of bistable elements are violated, they may become metastable, i.e., enter a t...
Fixed-parameter tractability is based on the observation that many hard problems become tractable ev...
PhD ThesisThe state space of every continuous multi-stable system is bound to contain one or more m...
An algorithmic meta theorem for a logic and a class C of structures states that all problems express...
Friedrichs et al. (TC 2018) showed that metastability can be contained when sorting inputs arising f...
Error containment is an important concept in fault tolerant system design, and techniques like votin...
Abstract The unavoidability of metastable behaviour in digital circuit-components like flipflops, ar...
We introduce a logic called distance neighborhood logic with acyclicity and connectivity constraints...
Algorithmic metatheorems state that if a problem can be described in a certain logic and the inputs ...
This thesis focuses on problems which themselves encode questions about circuits or algorithms, also...
The overall theme of the thesis is the transient behavior of certain distributed systems. The result...
International audienceSpace-time diagrams of signal machines on finite configurations are composed o...
The implications of pseudorandom modalities have been far-reaching and pervasive. After years of app...