FPGA: From Flashing LED to Reconfigurable Computing

 

Abstract

Today, Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) has become a universal digital electronics design platform. The applications of FPGA range from merely glue logic, to data processing interface, to flexible fabric for high performance scientific computing. An inconvenient truth of Moore¡¯s Law is that the speed of high end microprocessors has stopped increasing a few years ago after seemingly endless progress for several decades. In this age, badly demanded explorations of more efficient computing architectures are enabled by the ultra-flexibility of FPGA. In this talk, some philosophy on resource saving in electronics and computing engineering will be discussed through several application examples.

Short Bio

Dr. Jinyuan Wu received his BS degree in Space Physics from Department of Geophysics, Peking University, Beijing, China in 1982, MS degree in Micro-Electro-Ultrasonic Devices from Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China in 1986 and Ph. D. in Experimental High Energy Physics from Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University in 1992. He serves as an Electronics Engineer II and III in Particle Physics Division, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory since 1997. He has lectured a refresher course ¡°Digital Design with FPGAs: Examples and Resource Saving Tips¡± in IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC) in 2007. This talk is a shorten version of a short course prepared for IEEE Real Time Conference 2009, therefore it is introductory in nature. He wishes to use this opportunity to start initial connection with faculty and students at IIT.

 

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