World’s fastest supercomputers are characterized by the number of floating-point operations they can perform in one second.
Basit Riaz Sheikh (son of former ADG FIA Ahmed Riaz Sheikh) presented the design and implementation of a first high-performance asynchronous floating-point unit.
Compared against the state-of-the-art designs including the commercially manufactured microprocessors in nanoscale technology, Basit’s fully implemented transistor-level design not only performed at 3.2 times higher speed but also consumed 6 times less energy.
He was awarded the best paper award for his ground-breaking research.
Basit is the first Pakistani to win such a prestigious award at a premier circuits and computer design conference.
He is advised by a renowned scientist, Professor Manohar who recently co-founded Achronix Semiconductor, a 100 million dollar giga-scale asynchronous chip design company.
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