Event Details
Flexible Hardware: Not Your Father's FPGA
Presenter: Professor Steve Wilton - Dept. of Electrical and Computer Eng., The University of British Columbia
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Date: Thu, June 19, 2003
Time: 14:30:00 - 15:30:00
Place: EOW 430
ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT
As integrated circuits grow in complexity, it is getting more and more difficult to get your chip design right "the first time". But, as mask costs increase, it is getting more and more important to do so. An option increasingly available to integrated circuit designers is to embedded small amounts of programmable logic onto strategic locations within an integrated circuit. This programmable logic provides the ability to make post-fabrication changes, without the overhead of a complete FPGA solution. In this talk, I will describe ways in which programmable logic cores can simplify integrated circuit design, and will describe some of the challenges that must be overcome if the use of programmable logic cores is to become a mainstream design technique.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Steve Wilton received his B.Eng degree from the University of Victoria in 1990, and his M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Toronto in 1992 and 1997 respectively. In 1997, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia, where is he now an Associate Professor. His research focuses on the architecture of FPGAs, and the CAD tools that target these devices. He is a member of the program committee for the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference and as served as chair of the programmable-logic subcommittee for that conference in 2001 and 2002. He is also a member of the program committee for the ACM International Symposium on FPGAs and the International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic. He has served as a consultant for Cypress, Altera, and Heller-Ehrman.
INFORMATION: Vijay Bhargava
This talk is co-sponsored by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Victoria