This chapter presents a brief overview of some of the major research contributions in the area of VLSI computing with optical interconnects since the early modelings of the 1980s to today’s MEMS implementations. Both free-space and fiber-guided interconnects are covered. Various models and architectures with optical interconnects are shown, and aspects of their algorithmic design are also revie...

Power is most important t factor in any system design. The need for low power has caused a major factor where power dissipationhas become as important a consideration as performance and their area. Thispaper reviews various strategies and methodologies for designing low power circuitsandsystems. Thispaperexplains the connection between scaling and power consumption and design robustness. The pa...

reliability evaluation of a large-scale composite power system faces to numerous events/outage and consequently imposes an extensive burden of calculations. in order to simplify the problem, determination of an equivalent system for large-scale power system is inevitable. this paper proposes a framework as reduction technique to separate a composite power system to three areas: external area, o...

of the Department of Mathematics, are gratefully acknowledged. Special thanks are due Larry Sharp, who handled the many small details during the workshop, and also Wanda Sayer and Lynette Robinson, who cheerfully completed the almost impossible task of typing the manuscripts and rough drafts of the proceedings. PURPOSE AND APPROACH This seminar workshop was held on the campus of Utah State Univ...