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                  High Level, High Speed FPGA Programming

   Date:    16.06.03
   Time:    15:00
   Venue:   Unknown
   Speaker: Wim Bohm
   Title:   High Level, High Speed FPGA Programming

   This   talk  describes  the  implementation  of  a  significant  Image
   Processing  application,  Probing,  on  an  FPGA  based reconfigurable
   system,  using  the SA-C programming language and optimizing compiler.
   SA-C  has  single  assignment  semantics. Hence, a SA-C program can be
   viewed  as  a  dataflow  graph where nodes correspond to operators and
   edges to data paths. Dataflow graphs are ideal (data driven, timeless)
   abstractions  for  hardware  circuits.  The  language  and  optimizing
   compiler  are  introduced  using  the Probing application as a running
   example.  The factors leading to an impressive speedup compared to a C
   implementation  of  the  same Probing algorithm executing on a Pentium
   are analyzed.

   BIO

   Wim  Bohm  received  his  PhD  in  1984  in Utrecht with Prof. Jan van
   Leeuwen.  He worked for six years with the Manchester Dataflow Machine
   Research Group on compilation and simulation for Dataflow Machines. In
   1990  he  joined  the  Computer  Science  Department at Colorado State
   University,  where  he  is now a full professor. His research interest
   include  parallel  algorithms  and compilation for fine grain parallel
   systems.
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