Reconfigurable Architectures & Algorithms
Research Staff
Academics:A/Prof Hossam ElGindy (PhD, McGill University, Montreal 1985), Dr. Oliver Diessel (PhD, Newcastle University 1998)
PG Research Students: 3
Honours Students: 10
Visitors: Dr. Sang Seol Lee (South Korea), Michael Guntsch (Germany)
Capability:
Software and hardware support for the design and use of reconfigurable hardware systems.
The group conducts research in the following areas:
- theory of reconfiguration
- problem solving with reconfigurable hardware
- control and scheduling of run-time reconfigurable systems
- languages for dynamic reconfiguration
- CAD for dynamic reconfiguration
- field-programmable chip design
Trackrecord (1997-2001)
Funding:
- ARC Research Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities Support (RIEFS) (with P. Eades and B. Beresford Smith) joint with Sydney VISLAB and NSWCPC Consortium $50,000
- Reconfigurable Communication Networks, MRC - University of Newcastle $8,500pa
- Newcastle University Reconfigurable Architecture, ARC Large project grant, $45,000pa, managed in its last year for A.Spray and H. Schroder and used to supervise a PhD candidate
Collaboration: University of Edinburgh, University of South Australia, University of Karlsruhe, University of Florida, Simon Fraser University, Iowa State University.
Miscellaneous:
- more than 10 Journal and Conference publications
- workshop organisation (RAW'99, RAW 2000, RAW 2001, RAW 2002, Dagstuhl 2000)
- program committee (FPL'99, FPL 2000, FPL 2001, ENREGLE 2000, ENREGLE 2001)
- Mercator Visiting Professorship, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Journal Papers: 9
Refereed Conference Papers: 12
Facilities:
Special research facilities include:
- Compaq PCI Pamette V1 board
- Annapolis Microsystems Virtex Wildcard
- numerous Xilinx Spartan prototyping boards
- Xilinx Foundation, Celoxica DS1, and Xilinx JBits design tools
- shared PCB construction facility
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