10 February
1.10pm, LT308 Huxley
| Title: | The Datapath Goldmine - When Computer Arithmetic Meets Mobile Graphics |
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| Abstract: | The designing of circuits which implement mathematical functions, or Datapath, draws strongly upon Mathematics, Electronic Engineering and Computer Science. Real Datapath design challenges are faced when the hardware must be simultaneously power efficient, small, fast and performant. These are exactly the conditions faced for Imagination’s development of real-time photo-realistic mobile graphics hardware. This talk draw out the myriad of research challenges faced during industrial Datapath design including: - reinventing the implementation of fundamental operations multiplication/addition/division - the essential need for formal verification in the face of unsimulatable designs - numerical error analysis and exploitation in design. |
| Speaker Details: | Dr Theo Drane Theo Drane started his career working for the Datapath consultancy Arithmatica in 2002 after completely a Mathematics degree from the University of Cambridge. He moved to Imagination Technologies in 2005 where his interests were datapath optimisation, verification and validation. After a two year sabbatical to work for an independent financial data provider, Markit, he returned to Imagination to head up their Datapath group while studying for a PhD in conjunction with Imperial College London’s Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department. Now, in addition to his duties at Imagination, he regularly visits Imperial as an Honorary Research Fellow |
