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Publicaties van Joni Dambre

Publicaties in tijdschriften

  1. Pieter Buteneers, Ken Caluwaerts, David Verstraeten, Joni Dambre en Benjamin Schrauwen Optimized parameter search for large datasets of the regularization parameter and feature selection for ridge regression NEURAL PROCESSING LETTERS, pp. (2013)
  2. Yvan Paquot, Francois Duport, Antoneo Smerieri, Joni Dambre, Benjamin Schrauwen, Marc Haelterman en Serge Massar Optoelectronic reservoir computing SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, Vol. 2, pp. 1-6 (2012)
  3. Joni Dambre, David Verstraeten, Benjamin Schrauwen en Serge Massar Information processing capacity of dynamical systems SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, Vol. 2, pp. 1-7 (2012)
  4. Thomas Van Vaerenbergh, Martin Fiers, Pauline Mechet, Thijs Spuesens, Rajesh Kumar, Geert Morthier, Benjamin Schrauwen, Joni Dambre en Peter Bienstman Cascadable excitability in microrings OPTICS EXPRESS, Vol. 20(18), pp. 20292-20308 (2012)
  5. Martin Fiers, Thomas Van Vaerenbergh, Ken Caluwaerts, Dries Vande Ginste, Benjamin Schrauwen, Joni Dambre en Peter Bienstman Time-domain and frequency-domain modeling of nonlinear optical components at the circuit-level using a node-based approach JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA B-OPTICAL PHYSICS, Vol. 29(5), pp. 896-900 (2012)
  6. Thomas Van Vaerenbergh, Martin Fiers, Joni Dambre en Peter Bienstman Simplified description of self-pulsation and excitability by thermal and free-carrier effects in semiconductor microcavities PHYSICAL REVIEW A, Vol. 86(6), pp. 8 (2012)
  7. Kristof Vandoorne, Joni Dambre, David Verstraeten, Benjamin Schrauwen en Peter Bienstman Parallel reservoir computing using optical amplifiers IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL NETWORKS, Vol. 22(9), pp. 1469-1481 (2011)
  8. Lennert Appeltant, Miguel Cornelles Soriano, Guy Van der Sande, Jan Danckaert, Serge Massar, Joni Dambre, Benjamin Schrauwen, Claudio R Mirasso en Ingo Fischer Information processing using a single dynamical node as complex system NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, Vol. 2, pp. 6 (2011)
  9. Yvan Paquot, Francois Duport, Joni Dambre, Benjamin Schrauwen, Marc Haelterman en Serge Massar Artificial intelligence at light speed : toward optoelectronic reservoir computing BELGIAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY MAGAZINE(3), pp. 15-22 (2010)
  10. Wim Heirman, Joni Dambre, Iñigo Artundo, Christof Debaes, Hugo Thienpont, Dirk Stroobandt en Jan Van Campenhout Predicting the performance of reconfigurable optical interconnects in distributed shared-memory systems Photonic Network Communications, Vol. 15(1), pp. 25-40 (2008)
  11. Ian O`Connor, Faress Tissafi-Drissi, Frédéric Gaffiot, Joni Dambre, Michiel De Wilde, Joris Van Campenhout, Dries Van Thourhout, Jan Van Campenhout en Dirk Stroobandt Systematic Simulation-Based Predictive Synthesis of Integrated Optical Interconnect IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, Vol. 15(8), pp. 927-940 (2007)
  12. Joni Dambre en Mike Hutton Guest Editorial: System-Level Interconnect Prediction IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, Vol. 15(8), pp. 853-854 (2007)
  13. Wim Heirman, Joni Dambre, Iñigo Artundo, Christof Debaes, Hugo Thienpont, Dirk Stroobandt en Jan Van Campenhout Predicting reconfigurable interconnect performance in distributed shared-memory systems Integration, the VLSI Journal, Vol. 40(4), pp. 382-393 (2007)
  14. I��igo Artundo, Lieven Desmet, Wim Heirman, Christof Debaes, Joni Dambre, Jan Van Campenhout en Hugo Thienpont Selective Optical Broadcast Component for Reconfigurable Multiprocessor Interconnects IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics: Special Issue on Optical Communication, Vol. 12(4), pp. 828-837 (2006)
  15. Joni Dambre, Dirk Stroobandt en Jan Van Campenhout Toward the Accurate Prediction of Placement Wire Length Distributions in VLSI Circuits IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, Vol. 12(4), pp. 339-348 (2004)
  16. J. Dambre, P. Verplaetse, D. Stroobandt en J. Van Campenhout A Comparison of Various Terminal-Gate Relationships for Interconnect Prediction in VLSI Circuits IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, Special Issue on System-Level Interconnect Prediction, Vol. 11(1), pp. 24-34 (2003)
  17. J. Van Campenhout, H. Van Marck, J. Depreitere en J. Dambre Optoelectronic FPGA`s IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Vol. 5(2), pp. 306-315 (1999)

Conferentiepublicaties

  1. Thomas Van Vaerenbergh, Martin Fiers, Kristof Vandoorne, Bendix Schneider, Joni Dambre en Peter Bienstman Towards a photonics spiking neuron : excitability in a silicon-on-insulator microring 2012 International symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications, Proceedings, pp. 767-770 (2012)
  2. L Appeltant, MC Soriano, G Van der Sande, J Danckaert, S Massar, Joni Dambre, Benjamin Schrauwen, CR Mirasso en I Fischer Computing using delayed feedback systems: towards photonics PROCEEDINGS OF SPIE, THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR OPTICAL ENGINEERING, Vol. 8434, pp. 1-4 (2012)
  3. Bendix Schneider, Peter Bienstman en Joni Dambre Reduction of analogue bandwidth requirement in photonic on-chip reservoir computing 17th Annual Symposium of the IEEE Photonics Benelux Chapter, Proceedings, pp. 227-230 (2012)
  4. Thomas Van Vaerenbergh, Martin Fiers, Pauline Mechet, Thijs Spuesens, Rajesh Kumar, Geert Morthier, Kristof Vandoorne, Bendix Schneider, Benjamin Schrauwen, Joni Dambre en Peter Bienstman Characterization of cascadable excitability in a silicon-on-insulator microring 17th Annual Symposium of the IEEE Photonics Benelux Chapter, Proceedings, pp. 119-122 (2012)
  5. Thomas Van Vaerenbergh, Martin Fiers, Pauline Mechet, Thijs Spuesens, Rajesh Kumar, Geert Morthier, Kristof Vandoorne, Bendix Schneider, Benjamin Schrauwen, Joni Dambre en Peter Bienstman Self-pulsing and excitability mechanism in silicon-on-insulator microrings Asia Communications and Photonics Conference, Proceedings, pp. 1-3 (2012)
  6. Peter Bienstman, Kristof Vandoorne, Thomas Van Vaerenbergh, Martin Fiers, Bendix Schneider, David Verstraeten, Benjamin Schrauwen en Joni Dambre Reservoir computing on nanophotonic chips 2012 International symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications, Proceedings, pp. 506-508 (2012)
  7. Martin Fiers, Kristof Vandoorne, Thomas Van Vaerenbergh, Joni Dambre, Benjamin Schrauwen en Peter Bienstman Optical information processing : advances in nanophotonic reservoir computing 14th International Conference on Transparant Optical Networks, Proceedings, pp. 3 (2012)
  8. Martin Fiers, Thomas Van Vaerenbergh, Joni Dambre en Peter Bienstman CAPHE : time-domain and frequency-domain modeling of nonlinear optical components Advanced Photonics Congress, Proceedings, pp. 3 (2012)
  9. Kristof Vandoorne, Joni Dambre, David Verstraeten, Benjamin Schrauwen en Peter Bienstman Speech recognition using photonic reservoir computing with semiconductor optical amplifiers Conference proceedings : 2nd international conference on morphological computation, pp. 148-148 (2011)
  10. Kristof Vandoorne, Martin Fiers, Thomas Van Vaerenbergh, David Verstraeten, Benjamin Schrauwen, Joni Dambre en Peter Bienstman Advances in photonic reservoir computing on an integrated platform 2011 13th International conference on transparent optical networks, pp. 4 (2011)
  11. Lennert Appeltant, MC Soriano, Guy Van der Sande, Jan Dankaert, Serge Massar, Joni Dambre, Benjamin Schrauwen, Claudio R Mirasso en Ingo Fisher Reservoir computing using a delayed feedback system : towards photonic implemetations Proceedings Annual Symposium of the IEEE/LEOS Benelux Chapter, 2008, pp. 125-128 (2011)
  12. Martin Fiers, Thomas Van Vaerenbergh, Pieter Dumon, K Caluwaerts, Benjamin Schrauwen, Joni Dambre en Peter Bienstman CAPHE : a circuit-level time-domain and frequency-domain modeling tool for nonlinear optical components Proceedings of the 2011 annual symposium of the IEEE Photonics Benelux Chapter, pp. 277-280 (2011)
  13. Kristof Vandoorne, Martin Fiers, David Verstraeten, Benjamin Schrauwen, Joni Dambre en Peter Bienstman Optical signal processing with a network of semiconductor optical amplifiers in the context of photonic reservoir computing Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering, Vol. 7972, pp. 7 (2011)
  14. François Duport, Yvan Paquot, Joni Dambre, Benjamin Schrauwen, Marc Haelterman en Serge Massar De l'utilisation d'un oscillateur optoelectronique comme reservoir computer Journees Nationales d'Optique Guidée, 29ièmes, Communications, pp. 59-61 (2010)
  15. Yvan Paquot, Joni Dambre, Benjamin Schrauwen, Marc Haelterman en Serge Massar Reservoir computing : a photonic neural network for information processing PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY OF PHOTO-OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERS (SPIE), Vol. 7728, pp. 12 (2010)
  16. Peter Bienstman, Kristof Vandoorne, Martin Fiers, David Verstraeten, Joni Dambre en Benjamin Schrauwen Photonic reservoir computing as a new paradigm for optical information processing Photonics North 2010, pp. 196-196 (2010)
  17. Kristof Vandoorne, Martin Fiers, David Verstraeten, Benjamin Schrauwen, Joni Dambre en Peter Bienstman Photonic reservoir computing : a new approach to optical information processing 2010 12th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2010), pp. 4 (2010)
  18. David Verstraeten, Joni Dambre, Xavier Dutoit en Benjamin Schrauwen Memory versus non-linearity in reservoirs Neural Networks, International Joint Conference, Proceedings, pp. 8 (2010)
  19. Kristof Vandoorne, Joni Dambre, David Verstraeten, Benjamin Schrauwen en Peter Bienstman Delays in photonic reservoir computing with semiconductor optical amplifiers Proceedings of the 2010 annual symposium of the IEEE Photonics Benelux Chapter, pp. 25-28 (2010)
  20. Wim Heirman, Joni Dambre, Dirk Stroobandt en Jan Van Campenhout Rent’s Rule and Parallel Programs: Characterizing Network Traffic Behavior , pp. 87-94 (2008)
  21. Wim Heirman, Joni Dambre, Dirk Stroobandt en Jan Van Campenhout Runtime variability in scientific parallel applications Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Workshop on Modeling, Benchmarking and Simulation, pp. 37-46 (2008)
  22. Inigo Artundo, Wim Heirman, Christof Debaes, Joni Dambre, Jan Van Campenhout en Hugo Thienpont Design of a reconfigurable optical interconnect for large-scale multiprocessor networks Proc. of SPIE Photonics Europe, Vol. 6996, pp. 69961H/1-10 (2008)
  23. Inigo Artundo, Wim Heirman, Christof Debaes, Joni Dambre, Jan Van Campenhout en Hugo Thienpont Performance of large-scale reconfigurable optical interconnection networks in DSM systems Proceedings of the IEEE/LEOS Symposium Benelux Chapter, pp. 123-126 (2007)
  24. Wim Heirman, I��igo Artundo, Joni Dambre, Christof Debaes, Tinh Pham Doan, Khoi Bui Viet, Hugo Thienpont en Jan Van Campenhout Performance Evaluation of Large Reconfigurable Interconnects for Multiprocessor Systems Proceedings of the International Symposium on Electrical - Electronics Engineering (ISEE 2007), pp. 145-150 (2007)
  25. Wim Heirman, Joni Dambre en Jan Van Campenhout Synthetic Traffic Generation as a Tool for Dynamic Interconnect Evaluation Proceedings of the 2007 International Workshop on System Level Interconnect Prediction (SLIP`07), pp. 65-72 (2007)
  26. Inigo Artundo, Daniel Manjarres, Wim Heirman, Christof Debaes, Joni Dambre, Jan Van Campenhout en Hugo Thienpont Reconfigurable Interconnects in DSM Systems: A Focus on Context Switch Behavior Frontiers of High Performance Computing and Networking �� ISPA 2006 Workshops, Vol. 4331, pp. 311-321 (2006)
  27. Wim Heirman, Joni Dambre en Jan Van Campenhout Predicting the Performance of Reconfigurable Interconnects in Shared-Memory Systems Seventh FirW PhD Symposium, pp. 84 (2006)
  28. Khoi Bui Viet, Tinh Pham Doan, Quan Nguyen Nam, Inigo Artundo, Daniel Manjarres, Wim Heirman, Christof Debaes, Joni Dambre, Jan Van Campenhout en Hugo Thienpont Reconfigurable interconnection networks in Distributed Shared Memory systems: a study on communication patterns Proceedings of the first International Conference on Communications and Electronics (HUT-ICCE 2006), pp. 343-347 (2006)
  29. Wim Heirman, Joni Dambre, Inigo Artundo, Christof Debaes, Hugo Thienpont, Dirk Stroobandt en Jan Van Campenhout Predicting the Performance of Reconfigurable Interconnects in Distributed Shared-Memory Systems Architectures and Compilers for Embedded Systems (ACES`06): Symposium Proceedings, pp. 31-34 (2006)
  30. I. O'Connor, F. Tissafi-Drissi, D. Navarro, F. Mieyeville, F. Gaffiot, J. Dambre, M. De Wilde, D. Stroobandt en M. Brière Integrated optical interconnect for on-chip data transport (invited) Proc. 4th International IEEE-NEWCAS Conference, pp. 209-212 (2006)
  31. Inigo Artundo, Lieven Desmet, Wim Heirman, Christof Debaes, Joni Dambre, Jan Van Campenhout en Hugo Thienpont Selective optical broadcasting in reconfigurable multiprocessor interconnects Proc. of SPIE Photonics Europe, Vol. 6185, pp. 61850J (2006)
  32. Wim Heirman, Joni Dambre en Jan Van Campenhout Congestion Modeling for Reconfigurable Inter-Processor Networks Proceedings of the 2006 International Workshop on System Level Interconnect Prediction (SLIP`06), pp. 59-66 (2006)
  33. Ian O`Connor, Faress Tissaffi-Drissi, D. Navarro, F. Mieyeville, F. Gaffiot, Joni Dambre, Michiel De Wilde, Dirk Stroobandt en Dries Van Thourhout Optical Interconnect for On-Chip Data Communication Future Interconnects and Networks on Chip Workshop at DATE `06, pp. 74 (2006)
  34. Wim Heirman, Joni Dambre, Ian O`Connor en Jan Van Campenhout Reconfigurable Optical Networks for On-Chip Multiprocessors Future Interconnects and Networks on Chip Workshop at DATE`06, pp. (2006)
  35. Wim Heirman, I��igo Artundo, Lieven Desmet, Joni Dambre, Christof Debaes, Hugo Thienpont en Jan Van Campenhout Speeding up multiprocessor machines with reconfigurable optical interconnects Proceedings of SPIE, Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits VIII, Photonics West, Vol. 6124, pp. 156-167 (2006)
  36. Inigo Artundo, Lieven Desmet, Wim Heirman, Christof Debaes, Joni Dambre, Jan Van Campenhout en Hugo Thienpont Selective Broadcasting for Reconfigurable Optical Interconnects in DSM systems Proceedings of the IEEE/LEOS Symposium Benelux Chapter, pp. 225-228 (2005)
  37. Wim Heirman, Joni Dambre en Jan Van Campenhout Predicting the Performance of Reconfigurable Interconnects in Distributed Shared-Memory Systems Proceedings of the 16th ProRISC Workshop, pp. 508-517 (2005)
  38. Wim Heirman, I?igo Artundo, Daniel Carvajal, Lieven Desmet, Joni Dambre, Christof Debaes, Hugo Thienpont en Jan Van Campenhout Wavelength Tuneable Reconfigurable Optical Interconnection Network for Shared-Memory Machines Proceedings of the 31st European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC 2005), Vol. 3, pp. 527-528 (2005)
  39. Wim Heirman, Joni Dambre en Jan Van Campenhout Reconfigurable Optical Interconnects for Distributed Shared-Memory Systems Advanced Computer Architecture and Compilation for Embedded Systems (ACACES05), pp. 19-22 (2005)
  40. I. O`Connor, M. Brière, E. Drouard, A. Kazmierczak, F. Tissafi-Drissi, D. Navarro, F. Mieyeville, J. Dambre, D. Stroobandt, J.-M. Fedeli, Z. Lisik en F. Gaffiot Towards reconfigurable optical networks on chip (invited) Proceedings of ReCoSOC`05 (Reconfigurable Communication Centric SoCs), pp. 121-128 (2005)
  41. Wim Heirman, Joni Dambre, Dirk Stroobandt, Jan Van Campenhout, Christof Debaes en Hugo Thienpont Prediction Model for Evaluation of Reconfigurable Interconnects in Distributed Shared-Memory Systems Proceedings of the 2005 International Workshop on System Level Interconnect Prediction, SLIP`05, pp. 51-58 (2005)
  42. Wim Heirman, Joni Dambre, Jan Van Campenhout, Christof Debaes en Hugo Thienpont Traffic Temporal Analysis for Reconfigurable Interconnects in Shared-Memory Systems Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium, pp. 150-150 (2005)
  43. Wim Heirman, Joni Dambre en Jan Van Campenhout Reconfigurable Optical Interconnects for Distributed Shared-Memory Multiprocessors Design, Automation and Test in Europe, pp. (2005)
  44. Wim Heirman, Joni Dambre en Jan Van Campenhout Traffic Locality Analysis for Reconfigurable Interconnects in Shared-Memory Systems Fifth FTW PhD Symposium, pp. On CD (2004)
  45. Christof Debaes, I?igo Artundo, Wim Heirman, Joni Dambre, Khoi Bui Viet en Hugo Thienpont Architectural study of the opportunities for reconfigurable optical interconnects in distributed shared memory systems Proceedings Symposium IEEE/LEOS Benelux Chapter, pp. 275-278 (2004)
  46. J. Dambre, D. Stroobandt en J. Van Campenhout Fast Estimation of the Partitioning Rent Characteristic Using a Recursive Partitioning Model Proceedings of the 2003 International Workshop on System-Level Interconnect Prediction, SLIP`03, pp. 45-52 (2003)
  47. J. Dambre, D. Stroobandt en J. Van Campenhout A Probabilistic Approach to Clock Cycle Prediction Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Workshop on Timing Issues in the Specification and Synthesis of Digital Systems, pp. 9-15 (2002)
  48. B. P. Braeckman, J. Dambre en J. Vanfleteren Modeling age-dependent decline of metabolic rate in Caenorhabditis elegans Molecular Genetics of Aging Meeting, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, US, pp. (2002)
  49. H. Devos, J. Dambre, W. Meeus, D. Stroobandt en J. Van Campenhout An exploration of synchronization solutions for parallel short-range optical interconnect in mesochronous systems Proceedings of SPIE: VCSELs and Optical Interconnects, Vol. 4942, pp. 258-268 (2002)
  50. K. Bui Viet, L. Desmet, J. Dambre, K. Beyls, J. Van Campenhout en H. Thienpont Reconfigurable optical interconnects for parallel computer systems: design space issues VCSELs and Optical Interconnects, Vol. 4942, pp. 236-246 (2002)
  51. J. Dambre, J. Depreitere, D. Stroobandt en J. Van Campenhout Stochastic evaluation of FPGA routing architectures Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, pp. (2002)
  52. J. Dambre, P. Verplaetse, D. Stroobandt en J. Van Campenhout Getting more out of Donath`s hierarchical model for interconnect prediction Proceedings of the 2002 International Workshop on System Level Interconnect Prediction, pp. 9-16 (2002)
  53. M. De Wilde, J. Dambre en D. Stroobandt A flexible tree-based platform for design space exploration of hierarchical FPGA architectures Second FTW PhD Symposium, pp. (2001)
  54. J. Dambre, M. Brunfaut, W. Meeus en J. Van Campenhout Impact of optical I/O on FPGA electronic routing delays Proceedings of the 27th European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC`01), Vol. 3, pp. 294-295 (2001)
  55. M. Brunfaut, W. Meeus, J. Dambre, R. Bockstaele, J. Van Campenhout, H. Melchior, J. Hall, A. Neyer, P. Heremans, J. Van Koetsem, R. King, H. Thienpont, L. Vanwassenhove en R. Baets Demonstrating POF based optoelectronic interconnect in a multi-FPGA prototype system Proceedings of the 27-th European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC`01), Vol. 3, pp. 298-299 (2001)
  56. J.M. Van Campenhout, M. Brunfaut, W. Meeus, J. Dambre en M. De Wilde Sense and nonsense of logic-level optical interconnect: reflections on an experiment Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 4455, pp. 151-159 (2001)
  57. J. Dambre, P. Verplaetse, D. Stroobandt en J. Van Campenhout On Rent`s Rule for Rectangular Regions Proceedings of the 2001 International Workshop on System-Level Interconnect Prediction, pp. 49-56 (2001)
  58. P. Verplaetse, J. Dambre, D. Stroobandt en J. Van Campenhout On Partitioning vs. Placement Rent Properties Proceedings of the 3nd International Workshop on System-Level Interconnect Prediction, pp. 33-40 (2001)
  59. J. Dambre Performance advantages of optical inter-chip interconnect in multi-FPGA systems First FTW PhD Symposium, pp. on CD-ROM (2000)
  60. J. Dambre, H. Van Marck en J. Van Campenhout Quantifying the impact of optical interconnect latency on the performance of optoelectronic FPGAs Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Parallel Interconnects (PI`99, Formerly known as MPPOI), pp. 91-97 (1999)
  61. J. Dambre, H. Van Marck en J. Van Campenhout Quantifying the impact of optical interconnect latency on the performance of optoelectronic FPGAs Digest of abstracts of the 3rd workshop on Signal Propagation on Interconnects, pp. (1999)
  62. H. Van Marck, M. Brunfaut, J. Dambre, H. Neefs en J. Van Campenhout Design issues for three-dimensional optoelectronic architectures Proceedings of PIERS 98, Vol. 3, pp. 1064 (1998)

Andere publicaties

  1. D. Stroobandt en J. Dambre A system designer`s view on SoC communication architectures Tutorial on Interconnect-centric design for advanced SoC and NoC, pp. (2003)
  2. Joni Dambre Predictie van interconnectie-eigenschappen van digitale schakelingen voor de exploratie van ontwerpkeuzes en technologieen (Prediction of interconnect properties for digital circuit design and technology exploration) Doctoraatsproefschrift Faculteit Toegepaste Wetenschappen, Universiteit Gent, pp. (2003)
  3. J. Dambre, H. Van Marck en J. Van Campenhout Quantifying the Performance of Optoelectronic FPGA`s: The Impact of Optical Interconnect Latency Interconnects in VLSI Design, pp. 195-202 (2000)
  4. J. Dambre Retiming and its Application for Optimizing the Clock Cycle of Partitioned Designs: A Survey ELIS Technical Report, (DG98-06) pp. 1-28 (1998)
  5. J. Dambre Evaluatie van moderne technieken voor de specificatie en het ontwerp van asynchrone digitale systemen Afstudeerwerk FTW, RUG, pp. (1996)