Postdoctoral research fellow Naoya Onizawa, Mr. Tomoyoshi Funazaki (the 2nd degree of master course), Dr. Atsushi Matsumoto and Prof. Takahiro Hanyu received the "Best Paper Award" in IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI2010). This award is given to the best paper submitted to ISVLSI 2010. The awarded subject is "Accurate Asynchronous Network-on-Chip Simulation Based on a Delay-Aware Model."