Why should a project about an organizational merger be interesting? What do the Petit Price and the fox teach us about the mergers? Antoine de Saint-Exupéry tells us a story about to become friends. Knowing the Petit Prince the fox breaks its life style; it learns a new verbal and emotional language and consequently re organizes tis life In this paper, I argue that reading a merger event as a b...

In Optimality Theory (Prince & Smolensky 1993) both language acquisition and language typology can be accommodated. The basic assumption is that constraints are universal, but that the rankings of these constraints are language particular. For language typology the idea is that different rankings reflect different (possible) languages. For acquisition the idea is that the learner needs to acqui...

This paper introduces a synthesis tool for template-based synthesis of asynchronous circuits. The tool, named Template Synthesizer (TSYN) and it is a part of a complete asynchronous design flow named Persia. This tool transforms a behavioral description of a circuit to a sized transistor net-list. The input behavioral description must fit into some previously known templates. These templates ar...