| Title: | Design Automation of Configurable Processors |
| Date: |
October 17, 2006 (Tuesday)
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| Time: |
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
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| Venue: |
Room 121, 1/F, Ho Sin-hang Engineering Building,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T. |
| Speaker: |
Professor Wayne Luk
Department of Computing Imperial College London United Kingdom |
Design automation has a long history: the first Design Automation Workshop, which evolved into the Design Automation Conference, took place more than 40 years ago. While much success has been achieved in the last 40 years, the automatic development of optimised designs remains a key challenge.
This talk describes recent work at Imperial College London on design automation of configurable processors, which are often based on field-programmable gate array technology. Our aim is to produce, from a high-level description, optimised implementations that are competitive in speed, size, or power consumption.
Two research themes will be presented. The first theme involves the guided optimisation of high-level programs targeting configurable datapaths, based on source-level transformation. The second theme involves techniques for producing multi-threaded processors with customisable instruction sets. Several examples will be used to illustrate these approaches.
BIOGRAPHY:
Wayne Luk is Professor of Computer Engineering in Department of Computing at Imperial College London. He founded and leads the Computer Systems Section. His research interests include computer architecture, configurable computing, and design automation.
Enquiries: Miss Temmy So at tel 2609 8444
For more information, please refer to http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/seminar