Programme for FPL97

Monday, 1st September 1997

0815-0900 Registration
(outside Lecture Room 342 in Mechanical Engineering Building)

0900-0915 Welcome

Session 1: Devices and Architectures

0915-0940
J. Faura, J.M. Moreno, C. Horton, P.V. Duong, M.A. Aguirre
and J.M. Insenser
Multicontext dynamic reconfiguration and real time probing on a novel 
mixed signal programmable device with on-chip microprocessor

0940-1005
T. Miyazaki, A. Takahara, M. Katayama, T. Murooka, T. Ichimori,
K. Fukami, A. Tsutsui and K. Hayashi
CAD-oriented FPGA and dedicated CAD system for telecommunications

1005-1030
M. Leeser, W.M. Meleis, M.M. Vai and P. Zavracky
Rothko: a three dimensional FPGA architecture, its fabrication,
and design tools

1030-1130
Break and Poster Session A
(parallel with Commercial Presentation I)

G. McGregor and P. Lysaght
Extending dynamic circuit switching to meet the challenges of new 
FPGA architectures

D. Robinson, P. Lysaght, G. McGregor and H. Dick
Performance evaluation of a full speed PCI initiator subsystem
using FPGAs

T. Do, H. Kropp, M. Schwiegershausen and P. Pirsch
Implementation of pipelined multipliers on Xilinx FPGAs

S. Nisbet and S.A. Guccione
The XC6200DS development system

1100-1115
Commercial Presentation I: Annapolis Micro Systems

Session 2: Devices and Systems

1130-1155
E. Boemo and S. Lopez-Buedo
Thermal monitoring on FPGAs using ring-oscillators

1155-1220
I. Kostarnov, S. Morley, J. Osmany and C. Solomon
A reconfigurable approach to low cost media processing

1220-1245
P.I. Mackinlay, P.Y.K. Cheung, W. Luk and R. Sandiford
Riley-2: A flexible platform for codesign and dynamic reconfigurable
computing research

1245-1400
Lunch

Session 3: Reconfiguration I

1400-1425
B. Kahne and P. Athanas
Stream synthesis for a wormhole run-time reconfigurable platform

1425-1450
W. Luk, N. Shirazi, S.R. Guo and P.Y.K. Cheung
Pipeline morphing and virtual pipelines

1450-1515
B. Rising, M. van Daalen, P. Burge and J. Shawe-Taylor
Parallel Graph colouring using FPGAs

1515-1615
Break and Poster Session B
(parallel with Commercial Presentation II)

O. Diessel and H. ElGindy
Run-time compaction of FPGA designs

J.M. Emmert and D. Bhatia
Partial reconfiguration of FPGA mapped designs with applications to 
fault tolerance and yield enhancement

J. Leonard and W.H. Mangione-Smith
A case study of partially evaluated hardware circuits: 
key-specific DES

R. Payne
Run-time parameterised circuits for the Xilinx XC6200

1545-1600
Commercial Presentation II: Xilinx

Session 4: Reconfiguration II

1615-1640
G. Brebner
Automatic identification of swappable logic units in XC6200 circuitry

1640-1705
P. Lysaght
Towards an expert system for a priori estimation of reconfiguration
latency in dynamically reconfigurable logic

1705-1730
B.L. Hutchings
Exploiting reconfigurability through domain-specific systems


1830-2130
Exhibition and Dinner


Tuesday, 2nd September 1997

Session 5: Physical Design Tools

0900-0925
M. Servit and K. Yi
Technology mapping by binate covering

0925-0950
V. Betz and J. Rose
VPR:  A new packing, placement and routing tool for FPGA research

0950-1015
M. Inuani and J. Saul
Technology mapping of heterogeneous LUT-based FPGAs

1015-1115
Break and Poster Session C
(parallel with Commercial Presentation III)

K. Feske, S. Mulka, M. Koegst and G. Elst
Technology-driven FSM partitioning for synthesis of large sequential
circuits targeting lookup-table based FPGAs

X. Lin, E. Dagless and A. Lu
Technology mapping of LUT based FPGAs for delay optimisation

S. Acock and K. Dimond
Automatic mapping of algorithms on to multiple FPGA-SRAM modules

B. Maunder, Z. Salcic and G. Coghill
FPLD HDL synthesis employing high-level evolutionary algorithm
optimisation

A.V. Chichkov and C.B. Almeida
A hardware/software partitioning algorithm for custom computing machines

1045-1100
Commercial Presentation III: TSI TelSys

Session 6: Custom Computing and Codesign

1115-1140
E. Lechner and S.A. Guccione
The Java environment for reconfigurable computing

1140-1205
R.W. Hartenstein, J. Becker, M. Herz and U. Nageldinger
Data scheduling to increase performance of parallel accelerators

1205-1230
R. Kress, R.W. Hartenstein, U. Nageldinger
An operating system for custom computing machines based on the 
Xputer paradigm

1230-1400
Lunch

Session 7: Signal Processing

1400-1425
A. Dandalis and V.K. Prasanna
Fast parallel implementation of DFT using configurable devices

1425-1450
D. Greenfield, C. Crome, M.S. Won and D. Amos
Enhancing fixed point DSP processor performance by adding CPLDs
as coprocessing elements

1450-1515
M. Shand
A case study of algorithm implementation in reconfigurable hardware and
software

1515-1615
Break and Poster Session D 
(parallel with Commercial Presentation IV)

A.S. Chaudhuri, P.Y.K. Cheung and W. Luk
A reconfigurable data-localised parallel array architecture for 
morphological algorithms

D. Chauham, M.K. Ibrahim, B. Bramer, A Aggoun
Virtual radix array processors

T. Mathews, S.G. Gibb, L.E. Turner, P.J.W. Graumann and M. Fattouche
FPGA implementation of a matched filter detector for spread spectrum 
communications systems

S. Teerapanyawatt and K. Athikulwongse
An NTSC and PAL closed caption processor

1545-1600 
Commercial Presentation IV: Embedded Solutions Limited

Session 8: Image and Video Processing

1615-1640
T. Kean and A. Duncan
A 800 Mpixel/sec reconfigurable image correlator on XC6216

1640-1705
F. Lisa-Mingo, F. Cuadrado, D. Rexachs and J. Carrabina
A reconfigurable PCI-based computer vision system

1705-1730
P.A. Dunn and P.I. Corke
Real-time stereopsis using FPGAs

1730-1740
A. Keevallik
Introduction to FPL98

1900 Banquet


Wednesday, 3rd September 1997

Session 9: Communications, Sensors and Graphics

0835-0900
C. Jong, Y. Lam and C. Ng
FPGA implementation of a digital IQ demodulator

0900-0925
I. Page
Hardware compilation, configurable platforms and ASICs for 
self-validating sensors

0925-0950
S. Singh, J. Patterson, J. Burns and M. Dales
Postscript rendering with virtual hardware

0950-1015
I. Hadzic and J.M. Smith
P4: A platform for FPGA implementation of protocol boosters

1015-1115
Break and Poster Session E
(parallel with Commercial Presentation V)

M. Abramovici
Satisfiability on reconfigurable hardware

Y.I. El-Haffaf, A.K. Oudjida and A. Chohra
Artificial digital neural network architecture for obstacle avoidance
suitable for FPGAs

T. Jebelean
Auto-configurable array for GCD computation

B. Laurent, G. Bosco and G. Saucier
Structural versus algorithmic approaches for efficient adders on
Xilinx 5200 FPGA

1045-1100
Commercial Presentation V: Virtual Computer Corporation

Session 10: Control and Robotics

1115-1140
A. Tisserand
FPGA implementation of real-time digital controllers using on-line
arithmetic

1140-1205
T. Hollstein, A. Kirschbaum and M. Glesner
A prototyping environment for fuzzy controllers

1205-1230
K. Nukata, Y. Shibata, H. Amano and Y. Anzai
A reconfigurable sensor-data processing system for personal robots

1230-1240
Closing Remarks