Publications

Refereed Journal Papers

H. Ito, R. Konishi, H. Nakada, H. Tsuboi, Y. Okuyama and A. Nagoya: "Dynamically Reconfigurable Logic LSI: PCA-2," IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol. E87-D, No. 8, pp. 2011-2020, Aug. 2004.
H. Ito, R. Konishi, H. Nakada, K. Oguri, A. Nagoya and M. Inamori: "Dynamically Reconfigurable Logic LSI - PCA-1 : The First Realization of Plastic Cell Architecture," IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol. E86-D, No. 5, pp. 859-867, May 2003.
M. Inamori, H. Nakada, R. Konishi, A. Nagoya and K. Oguri: "A Method of Mapping Finite State Machine into PCA Plastic Parts," IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences, Vol. E85-A, No. 4, pp. 804-810, Apr. 2002.
S. Yamashita, H. Sawada and A. Nagoya: "A General Framework to Use Various Decomposition Methods for LUT Network Synthesis," IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences, Vol. E84-A, No. 11, pp. 2915-2922, Nov. 2001.
T. Suyama, M. Yokoo, H. Sawada and A. Nagoya: "Solving Satisfiability Problems using Reconfigurable Hardware (in Japanese)," Transactions of IEICEJ, Vol. J84-D-I, No. 4, pp. 410-420, Apr. 2001.
T. Suyama, M. Yokoo, H. Sawada and A. Nagoya: "Solving Satisfiability Problems using Reconfigurable Computing," IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 109-116, Feb. 2001.
H. Nagano, A. Matsuura and A. Nagoya: "An Efficient Implementation Method of a Metric Computation Accelerator for Fractal Image Compression Using Reconfigurable Hardware," IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences, Vol. E84-A, No. 1, pp. 372-377, Jan. 2001.
H. Sawada, S. Yamashita and A. Nagoya: "Efficient Kernel Generation based on Implicit Cube Set Representations and Its Applications," IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences, Vol. E83-A, No. 12, pp. 2513-2519, Dec. 2000.
S. Yamashita, H. Sawada and A. Nagoya: "SPFD: A New Method to Express Functional Flexibility," IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Vol. 19, No. 8, pp. 840-849, Aug. 2000.
S. Yamashita, H. Sawada and A. Nagoya: "SPFD: A New Method to Express Functional Flexibility (in Japanese)," Transactions of IEICEJ, Vol. J82-A, No. 7, pp. 1047-1056, Jul. 1999.
S. Yamashita, H. Sawada and A. Nagoya: "An Efficient Method for Finding an Optimal Bi-Decomposition," IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences, Vol. E81-A, No. 12, pp. 2529-2537, Dec. 1998.
H. Sawada, S. Yamashita and A. Nagoya: "Restructuring Logic Representations with Simple Disjunctive Decompositions," IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences, vol. E81-A, No. 12, pp. 2538-2544, Dec. 1998.
A. Matsuura and A. Nagoya: "Bit and Word-Level Common Subexpression Elimination for the Synthesis of Linear Computations," IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences, Vol. E81-A, No. 3, pp. 455-461, Mar. 1998.
A. Matsuura, M. Yukishita and A. Nagoya: "A Hierarchical Clustering Method for the Multiple Constant Multiplication Problem," IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences, Vol. E80-A, No. 10, pp. 1767-1773, Oct. 1997.
H. Sawada, T. Suyama and A. Nagoya: "Logic Synthesis for Look-Up Table Based FPGAs Using Functional Decomposition and Boolean Resubstitution," IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol. E80-D, No. 10, pp. 1017-1023, Oct. 1997.
Y. Nakamura, K. Oguri, A. Nagoya, M. Yukishita and R. Nomura: "High-Level Synthesis Design at NTT Systems Labs," IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol. E76-D, No. 9, pp. 1047-1054, Sep. 1993.
H. Sekigawa, A. Nagoya, K. Oguri and Y. Nakamura: "An Efficient Algorithm for Interconnect Elements Assignment (in Japanese)," Transactions of IEICEJ, Vol. J74-A, No. 7, pp. 1031-1040, Jul. 1991.
A. Nagoya, Y. Nakamura, K. Oguri and R. Nomura: "Multi-Level Logic Optimization for High Level CAD System (in Japanese)," Transactions of IEICEJ, Vol. J74-A, No. 2, pp. 206-217, Feb. 1991.

Refereed Conference Papers

H. Ito, R. Konishi, H. Nakada, Y. Okuyama, A. Nagoya, T. Izumi and Y. Nakamura: "Asynchronous Dynamically Reconfigurable Logic LSIs Suitable For Technology Scaling," Proc. of the 12th Workshop on Synthesis And System Integration of Mixed Information technologies (SASIMI 2004), pp. 458-465, Oct. 2004.
Y. Nakane, K. Nagami, T. Shiozawa and A. Nagoya: "Concept and Implementation of Run-time Resource Management System Operating on Autonomously Reconfigurable Architecture," Proc. of 2003 IEEE International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology (FPT '03), pp. 136-143, Dec. 2003.
K. Oguri, Y. Shibata and A. Nagoya: "Asynchronous Bit-Serial Datapath for Object-Oriented Reconfigurable Architecture PCA," Proc. of the 8th Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference (ACSAC 2003), Springer LNCS 2823, pp. 54-68, Sep. 2003 (invited talk).
H. Ito, R. Konishi, H. Nakada, H. Tsuboi and A. Nagoya: "Development of Dynamically Reconfigurable Logic LSI: PCA-2 (in Japanese)," IPSJ/IEICE 2nd Forum on Information Technology (FIT 2003) Information Technology Letters, pp. 53-54, Sep. 2003.
H. Ito, R. Konishi, H. Nakada, H. Tsuboi and A. Nagoya: "Dynamically Reconfigurable Logic LSI designed as Fully Asynchronous System - PCA-2," Proc. of COOL Chips VI, p. 84, Apr. 2003.
M. Inamori, R. Konishi and A. Nagoya: "A New Approach to Mapping Finite State Machine into PCA Plastic Parts," Proc. of the 10th Workshop on Synthesis And System Integration of MIxed technologies (SASIMI 2001), pp. 178-185, Oct. 2001.
Y. Nakane, K. Nagami, T. Shiozawa, N. Imlig, A. Nagoya and K. Oguri: "Run-time Resource Management for the Dynamically Self-Reconfigurable Architecture PCA (in Japanese)," Proc. of Design Automation Symposium 2001 (DA Symposium 2001), pp. 67-72, Jul. 2001.
Y. Nakane, K. Nagami, T. Shiozawa, N. Imlig, A. Nagoya and K. Oguri: "Run-time Resource Management for the Dynamically Self-Reconfigurable Architecture PCA," Proc. of 1st International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA '01), pp. 57-63, Jun. 2001.
H. Ito, R. Konishi, H. Nakada, K. Oguri, A. Nagoya, N. Imlig, K. Nagami, T. Shiozawa and M. Inamori: "Dynamically Reconfigurable Logic LSI - PCA-1," Proc. of 2001 Symposium on VLSI Circuits, pp. 103-106, Jun. 2001.
H. Sawada, S. Yamashita and A. Nagoya: "SPFD: A Method to Express Functional Flexibility," Booklet of 10th International Workshops on Post-Binary ULSI Systems (ULSI 2001), pp. 19-24, May 2001 (invited talk).
H. Nakada, H. Ito, R. Konishi, A. Nagoya, K. Oguri, T. Shiozawa and N. Imlig: "Self-reorganizing Systems on VLSI Circuits," Proc. of 2001 International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2001), Vol.4, pp. 310-313, May 2001.
N. Imlig, T. Shiozawa, K. Nagami, Y. Nakane, R. Konishi, H. Ito and A. Nagoya: "Scalable Space/Time-shared Stream-Processing on the Run-time Reconfigurable PCA Architecture," Proc. of 8th Reconfigurable Architecture Workshop (RAW 2001) associated with 15th Annual International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2001), pp. 1441-1449, Apr. 2001.
M. Inamori, H. Nakada, R. Konishi and A. Nagoya: "A Method of Mapping Finite State Machine into PCA Plastic Part (in Japanese)," IEICE The 14th Workshop on Circuits and Systems in Karuizawa, pp. 95-100, Apr. 2001.
R. Konishi, H. Ito, H. Nakada, A. Nagoya, K. Oguri, N. Imlig, T. Shiozawa, M. Inamori and K. Nagami: "PCA-1: A Fully Asynchronous, Self-Reconfigurable LSI," Proc. of 7th International Symposium on Asynchronous Circuits and Systems (ASYNC 2001), pp. 54-61, Mar. 2001.
T. Shiozawa, N. Imlig, K. Nagami, K. Oguri, A. Nagoya and H. Nakada: "An Implementation of Longest Prefix Matching for IP Router on Plastic Cell Architecture," Proc. of 10th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL 2000), Springer LNCS 1896, pp. 805-809, Aug. 2000.
K. Aoyama, H. Sawada, A. Nagoya and K. Nakajima: "A Threshold Logic-based Reconfigurable Element with a Novel Programming Technology," Proc. of 10th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL 2000), Springer LNCS 1896, pp. 665-674, Aug. 2000.
S. Yamashita, H. Sawada and A. Nagoya: "A Layout Driven Logic Decomposition Model," Handouts of 2000 IEEE International Workshop on Logic Synthesis (IWLS 2000), pp. 111-115, May 2000.
K. Aoyama, H. Sawada and A. Nagoya: "A Method for Designing a Circuit with Neuron MOS Transistors Realizing Any Logic Function (in Japanese)," IEICE The 13th Workshop on Circuits and Systems in Karuizawa, pp. 113-118, Apr. 2000.
H. Sawada, S. Yamashita and A. Nagoya: "A Boolean Division Algorithm for Implicit Cube Set Representations," Proc. of the 9th Workshop on Synthesis And System Integration of MIxed technologies (SASIMI 2000), pp. 279-283, Apr. 2000.
S. Yamashita, H. Sawada and A. Nagoya: "An Efficient Framework of Using Various Decomposition Methods to Synthesize LUT Networks and Its Evaluation," Proc. of Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference 2000 (ASP-DAC 2000), pp. 253-258, Jan. 2000.
T. Suyama, M. Yokoo and A. Nagoya: "Solving Satisfiability Problems on FPGAs using Experimental Unit Propagation," Proc. of 5th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP '99), Springer LNCS 1713, pp. 434-445, Oct. 1999.
H. Sawada, S. Yamashita and A. Nagoya: "An Efficient Method for Generating Kernels on Implicit Cube Set Representations," Handouts of 1999 IEEE International Workshop on Logic Synthesis (IWLS '99), pp. 260-263, Jun. 1999.
A. Matsuura and A. Nagoya: "Summation Algorithms on Constrained Reconfigurable Meshes," Proc. of International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms and Networks (I-SPAN '99), pp. 400-405, Jun. 1999.
H. Sawada, S. Yamashita and A. Nagoya: "An Efficient Method for Generating Kernels on Implicit Cube Set Representations (in Japanese)," IEICE The 12th Workshop on Circuits and Systems in Karuizawa, pp. 331-336, Apr. 1999.
A. Matsuura and A. Nagoya: "An Optimal Algorithm for Summing Binary Numbers on Reconfigurable Meshes of a Linear-Delay Model (in Japanese)," IEICE The 12th Workshop on Circuits and Systems in Karuizawa, pp. 481-486, Apr. 1999.
H. Nagano, A. Matsuura and A. Nagoya: "An Efficient Implementation Method of Fractal Image Compression on Dynamically Reconfigurable Architecture," PProc. of 6th Reconfigurable Architecture Workshop (RAW '99) associated with 13th International Parallel Processing Symposium & 10th Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing (IPPS/SPDP '99), Springer LNCS 1586, pp. 670-678, Apr. 1999.
T. Suyama, M. Yokoo and A. Nagoya: "Solving Satisfiability Problems on FPGAs Using Experimental Unit Propagation Heuristic," Proc. of 6th Reconfigurable Architecture Workshop (RAW '99) associated with 13th International Parallel Processing Symposium & 10th Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing (IPPS/SPDP '99), Springer LNCS 1586, pp. 709-711, Apr. 1999.
S. Yamashita, H. Sawada and A. Nagoya: "An Integrated Approach for Synthesizing LUT Networks," Proc. of the 9th Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLS-VLSI '99), pp. 136-139, Feb. 1999.
A. Matsuura, H. Nagano and A. Nagoya: "A Method for Implementing Fractal Image Compression on Reconfigurable Architecture," Proc. of ACM International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA '99), p. 251, Feb. 1999.
H. Nagano, T. Suyama and A. Nagoya: "Acceleration of Linear Block Code Evaluations Using New Reconfigurable Computing Approach," Proc. of Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference 1999 (ASP-DAC '99), pp. 161-164, Jan. 1999.
H. Sawada, S. Yamashita and A. Nagoya: "Efficient Methods for a Simple Disjoint Decomposition and Non-Disjoint Bi-Decomposition," Booklet of 7th International Workshop on Post-Binary ULSI Systems (ULSI '98), pp. 34-37, May 1998.
H. Sawada, S. Yamashita and A. Nagoya: "Restructuring Logic Representations with Easily Detectable Simple Disjunctive Decompositions," Proc. of Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference 1998 (DATE '98), pp. 755-759, Feb. 1998.
H. Nagano, T. Suyama and A. Nagoya: "Soft Decision Maximum Likelihood Decoders for Binary Linear Block Codes Implemented on FPGAs," Proc. of Sixth ACM International Symposium on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA '98), p. 261, Feb. 1998.
S. Yamashita, H. Sawada and A. Nagoya: "New Methods to Find Optimal Non-Disjoint Bi-Decompositions," Proc. of Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference 1998 (ASP-DAC '98), pp. 59-68, Feb. 1998.
A. Matsuura and A. Nagoya: "Formulation of the Addition-Shift-Sequence Problem and Its Complexity," Proc. of the 8th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC '97), Springer LNCS 1350, pp. 42-51, Dec. 1997.
A. Matsuura and A. Nagoya: "Bit and Word-Level Common Subexpression Sharing for the Multiple Constant Multiplication Problem (in Japanese)," IEICE The 10th Workshop on Circuits and Systems in Karuizawa, pp. 303-308, Apr. 1997.
S. Kimura, M. Yukishita, Y. Itou, A. Nagoya, M. Hirao and K. Watanabe: "A Hardware/Software Codesign Method for a General Purpose Reconfigurable Co-Processor," Proc. of the 5th International Workshop on Hardware/Software Co-design (CODES/CASHE '97), pp. 147-151, Mar. 1997.
H. Sawada, S. Yamashita and A. Nagoya: "Restricted Simple Disjunctive Decompositions based on Grouping Symmetric Variables," Proc. of the 7th Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLS-VLSI '97), pp. 39-44, Mar. 1997.
A. Matsuura, M. Yukishita and A. Nagoya: "An Efficient Hierarchical Clustering Method for the Multiple Constant Multiplication Problem," Proc. of Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference 1997 (ASP-DAC '97), pp. 83-88, Jan. 1997.
S. Yamashita, H. Sawada and A. Nagoya: "A New Method to Express Functional Permissibilities for LUT based FPGAs and Its Applications," Proc. of 1996 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD-96), pp. 254-261, Nov. 1996.
T. Suyama, H. Sawada and A. Nagoya: "LUT-based FPGA Technology Mapping using Permissible Functions," Proc. of the 9th International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSI Design '96), pp. 215-218, Jan. 1996.
H. Sawada, T. Suyama and A. Nagoya: "Logic Synthesis for Look-Up Table based FPGAs using Functional Decomposition and Support Minimization," Proc. of 1995 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD-95), pp. 353-358, Nov. 1995.
H. Sawada, T. Suyama, M. Yukishita and A. Nagoya: "Logic Synthesis Method for Look-Up Table Architectures using Functional Decomposition and Support Minimization," Proc. of the 5th Workshop on Synthesis And System Integration of MIxed technologies (SASIMI '95), pp. 161-168, Aug. 1995.
P. Baglietto and A. Nagoya: "Design of a SIMD Massively Parallel Computer using a High Level Synthesis System," Proc. of 5th International Symposium on IC Technology, Systems & Applications (ISIC-93), pp. 510-514, Sep. 1993.
H. Sekigawa, Y. Nakamura, K. Oguri, A. Nagoya and M. Yukishita: "Multiplexer Assignment after Scheduling and Allocation Steps," Proc. of 6th International Workshop on High-Level Synthesis (IWHLS '92), pp. 410-417, Nov. 1992.
A. Nagoya, Y. Nakamura and R. Nomura: "Microprocessor Architecture Design Using High-Level Synthesis System," Proc. of International Symposium on Logic Synthesis and Microprocessor Architecture (ISKIT '92), pp. 55-59, Jul. 1992.
Y. Nakamura, K. Oguri, A. Nagoya, M. Yukishita and R. Nomura: "High-Level Synthesis Design at NTT Systems Labs," Proc. of Synthesis And SImulation Meeting and International interchange (SASIMI '92), pp. 344-353, Apr. 1992.
R. Nomura, K. Oguri, Y. Nakamura and A. Nagoya: "The Strategy for Reliable ASIC Design in PARTHENON," Proc. of the 4th International Forum on ASIC and Transducer Technology (ASICTT '91), pp. 7-12, May 1991.
K. Oguri, Y. Nakamura, R. Nomura, A. Nagoya and M. Yukishita: "PARTHENON: Perfect Harmony between Behavioral Language SFL and Synthesizer," IEICE The 4th Workshop on Circuits and Systems in Karuizawa, pp. 198-203, Apr. 1991.
R. Nomura, K. Oguri, A. Nagoya and Y. Nakamura: "A High-Level ASIC CAD System -PARTHENON-," Proc. of 2nd Makuhari International Conference on High Technology (MICHT '91), pp. 255-258, Feb. 1991.
A. Nagoya, Y. Nakamura, K. Oguri and R. Nomura: "Multi-Level Logic Optimization for Large Scale ASICs," Proc. of the 1990 IEEE International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD-90), pp. 564-567, Nov. 1990.
Y. Nakamura, K. Oguri, A. Nagoya and R. Nomura: "A Hierarchical Behavioral Description Based CAD System," Proc. of IEEE International Conference EURO ASIC 1990 (EURO ASIC '90), pp. 282-287, May 1990.
Y. Nakamura, M. Yukishita, R. Nomura and A. Nagoya: "Specification Design Expert System for Pipeline Control Architecture," Proc. of 1st European Design Automation Conference (EDAC '90), p. 671, Mar. 1990.

Tutorial Papers and Articles

A. Nagoya: "An Introduction to PARTHENON (in Japanese)," Textbook for the 12th PARTHENON Short Course, pp. 85-96, Aug. 2004.
A. Nagoya: "Utilization Techniques for Logic Optimization Programs in PARTHENON (in Japanese)," Textbook for the 12th PARTHENON Short Course, pp. 97-122, Aug. 2004.
A. Nagoya: "Autonomously Reconfigurable Hardware : Plastic Cell Architecture (PCA) (in Japanese)," The Journal of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, Vol. 87, No. 4, pp. 303-308, Apr. 2004.
A. Nagoya: "An Introduction to PARTHENON (in Japanese)," Textbook for the 11th PARTHENON Short Course, pp. 129-140, Aug. 2003.
T. Suyama, M. Yokoo, H. Sawada and A. Nagoya: "Solving satisfiability problems by using reconfigurable hardware," Electronics and Communications in Japan (Part II: Electronics), Vol. 86, Issue 3, Wiley Periodicals, Inc., pp. 35-46, Feb. 2003.
A. Nagoya: "An Introduction to PARTHENON (in Japanese)," Textbook for the 10th PARTHENON Short Course, pp. 3-14, Aug. 2002.
S. Yamashita, H. Sawada and A. Nagoya: "A New Notion for Functional Flexibility: A Summary," IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 52-54, 2nd qr. 2002.
A. Nagoya: "The Plastic Cell Architecture for Dynamically Self-Reconfigurable Computing (in Japanese)," Journal of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, Vol. 40, No. 12, pp. 911-914, Dec. 2001.
A. Nagoya: "An Introduction to PARTHENON (in Japanese)," Textbook for the 9th PARTHENON Short Course, pp. 3-13, Aug. 2001.
A. Nagoya and K. Oguri: "The Concept of the Plastic Cell Architecture (PCA) (in Japanese)," NTT R&D, Vol. 49, No. 9, pp. 513-517, Sep. 2000.
A. Nagoya, S. Yamashita, M. Inamori and H. Sawada: "Logic Synthesis and Optimization Methods for Sea-of-LUTs based PCA (in Japanese)," NTT R&D, Vol. 49, No. 9, pp. 537-545, Sep. 2000.
A. Nagoya: "Design Automation Technologies for Realizing Novel Concurrent Architecture (in Japanese)," NTT R&D, Vol. 46, No. 2, pp. 153-158, Feb. 1997.
Y. Nakamura, K. Oguri, T. Shiozawa, H. Ito, K. Nagami, A. Nagoya, R. Nomura, M. Yukishita, H. Sawada, T. Suyama, A. Matsuura and S. Yamashita: "PARTHENON for the First Time CD-ROM edition (in Japanese)," DESIGN WAVE MAGAZINE, No. 3, CQ Publishing, May 1996.
A. Nagoya: "Utilization Techniques for Logic Optimization Programs (in Japanese)," Transistor Technologies, Vol. 32, No. 3, CQ Publishing, pp. 345-354, Feb. 1995.
A. Nagoya: "Top-Down Design for ASICs using SFL/PARTHENON (in Japanese)," Interface, Vol. 20, No. 6, CQ Publishing, pp. 196-206, May 1994.
A. Nagoya: "High-level Logic Synthesis System PARTHENON (in Japanese)," Telecommunications, Vol. 56, No. 562, pp. 66-76, Oct. 1993.
Y. Nakamura, K. Oguri, R. Nomura, A. Nagoya and M. Yukishita: "Research and Development of High-Level Synthesis System based on Behavioral Hardware Description Language (in Japanese)," Reports of Achievements in Industrialization Awarded the Okochi Memorial Prize 1992, pp. 51-61, Dec. 1992.
K. Oguri, Y. Nakamura, R. Nomura and A. Nagoya: "SFL (in Japanese)," IPSJ Magazine, Vol. 33, No. 11, pp. 1256-1262, Nov. 1992.
A. Nagoya: "Logic Minimization (in Japanese)," Journal of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 540-542, May 1992.
S. Shiokawa, Y. Obashi and A. Nagoya: "DIPS-11/5E Series Mainframes," Review of the Electrical Communications Laboratories, Vol. 35, No. 6, pp. 633-641, Nov. 1987.
S. Shiokawa, A. Nagoya, A. Matsumoto and K. Tajiri: "DIPS-11/5E Series Processor (in Japanese)," Electrical Communications Laboratories Technical Journal, Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 57-65, Jan. 1987.

Books

K. Oguri, A. Nagoya, R. Nomura and M. Yukishita: "PARTHENON for the First Time (in Japanese)," CQ Publishing Co., Ltd., Sep. 1994, ISBN 4-7898-3799-8.
Y. Nakamura and A. Nagoya: "Design Automation Technologies for ASICs (in Japanese)," IEICE edit., "ASIC Technology: Fundamentals and Applications", pp. 230-251, Feb. 1994, ISBN 4-88552-120-3.
Y. Nakamura, K. Oguri and A. Nagoya: "Synthesis from Pure Behavioral Descriptions," High-level VLSI Synthesis, R. Camposano and W. Wolf (eds), Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 205-229, Jun. 1991, ISBN 0-7923-9159-4.