Tobias Becker

Welcome to my home page. I'm a postdoctoral researcher in the Custom Computing Group in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London.

Research

My research interests lie in Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) with special focus on design methods, tools and applications involving run-time reconfiguration. I'm currently working on the EPiCS project which focuses on self-aware compute systems. I'm also involved in the FASTER project which targets a new design approach for reconfigurable technology.

Publications

• T. Becker, Q. Jin, W. Luk and S. Weston. "Dynamic Constant Reconfiguration for Explicit Finite Difference Option Pricing", International Conference on Reconfigurable Computing and FPGAs (ReConFig), 2011.

• T. Becker, Q. Liu, W. Luk, G. Nebehay and R. Pflugfelder. "Hardware-accelerated object tracking", Computer Vision on Low-Power Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop, Field Programmable Logic and Applications, 2011.

• M. Bogdanski, P. R. Lewis, T. Becker and X. Yao. "Improving scheduling techniques in heterogeneous systems with dynamic, on-line optimisations", Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS), 2011.

• T. Becker, M. Koester and W. Luk, "Automated placement of reconfigurable regions for relocatable modules", IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2010

• T. Becker, W. Luk and P.Y.K. Cheung, "Energy-aware optimisation for run-time reconfiguration", Proc. IEEE Symposium on Field Programmable Custom Computing Machines, 2010

• P. Jamieson, T. Becker, P.Y.K. Cheung, W. Luk, T. Rissa and T. Pitkänen, "Benchmarking and evaluating reconfigurable architectures targeting the mobile domain", ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, vol 15, issue 2, 2010

• T. Becker, P. Jamieson, W. Luk, P.Y.K. Cheung and T. Rissa, "Power Characterisation for Fine-Grain Reconfigurable Fabrics", International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing, vol. 2010, Article ID 787405, 9 pages, 2010

• P. Jamieson, T. Becker, W. Luk, P.Y.K. Cheung, T. Rissa and T. Pitkänen, "Benchmarking Reconfigurable Architectures in the Mobile Domain", IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, 2009

• T. Becker, P. Jamieson, W. Luk, P.Y.K. Cheung and T. Rissa, "Power characterisation for the fabric in fine-grain reconfiguralbe architectures", Southern Conference on Programmable Logic, IEEE, 2009

• T. Becker, W. Luk and P.Y.K. Cheung, "Parametric Design for Reconfigurable Software-Defined Radio", Proceedings of the 5th international workshop on Reconfigurable Computing, Springer, 2009

• T. Becker, P. Jamieson, W. Luk, P.Y.K. Cheung and T. Rissa, "Towards benchmarking energy efficiency of reconfigurable architectures", International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications, IEEE, 2008

• T. Becker, W. Luk and P.Y.K. Cheung, "Enhancing Relocatability of Partial Bitstreams for Run-Time Reconfiguration", Proc. IEEE Symposium on Field Programmable Custom Computing Machines, 2007

• A. Derbyshire, T. Becker and W. Luk, "Incremental Elaboration for Run-Time Reconfigurable Hardware Designs", CASES '06: Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Compilers, Architecture and Synthesis for Embedded Systems, pp. 93-102, ACM Press, 2006

• P. Sedcole, B. Blodget, T. Becker, J. Anderson and P. Lysaght, "Modular Dynamic Reconfiguration in Virtex FPGAs", IEE Proceedings Computers & Digital Techniques, vol. 153, no. 3, pp. 157-164, May 2006

• P. Sedcole, B. Blodget, J. Anderson, P. Lysaght and T. Becker, "Modular Partial Reconfiguration in Virtex FPGAs", Proc. International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications, pp. 211-216, August 2005
• M. Huebner, T. Becker, J. Becker, "Real-Time LUT-Based Network Topologies for Dynamic and Partial FPGA Self-Reconfiguration", SBCCI '04: Proceedings of the 17th Symposium on Integrated Circuits and System Design, pp. 28-32, ACM Press, 2004

Contact details

Tobias Becker
Department of Computing
Imperial College London
South Kensington Campus
London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom

Phone: +44 (0) 20 7594 8185
Email: tobias.becker04 imperial.ac.uk