The document provides 6 case studies of projects undertaken by the Institute for System Level Integration (iSLI) working with various clients:
1. Providing FPGA daughterboard design and mentoring a research student for Edinburgh University. The board was delivered on time and exceeded expectations.
2. Providing prototyping support for a startup including functional prototype, requirements scoping, and first working prototype which enabled product launch.
3. Providing guidance and support to a sole inventor including radio hardware design and software development creating a working system to demonstrate to investors.
4. Conducting an initial feasibility study for a startup through a voucher scheme and developing their first design iteration leading to an international patent and industry acquisition.
How can circularity be applied to a consumer market that is creating millions of kilos of e-waste every year? This is my group's case study on Gerrard Street - a Dutch startup that is offering premium quality headphones for marginal, monthly subscriptions.
How can circularity be applied to a consumer market that is creating millions of kilos of e-waste every year? This is my group's case study on Gerrard Street - a Dutch startup that is offering premium quality headphones for marginal, monthly subscriptions.
Students and faculties can steup these labs and develop their own software core processors in their lab . There are examples running hello world program written in C compiled with ppc64 gcc. Many cool things you can do example run a dcoker containers etc.
The purpose of the lab to the latest skills required for Job opportunities in many industries . This helps faculties to develop their skills and publish papers in intenational conferences and also innovate solutions
How to become a successful VLSI engineer?
Why become a VLSI engineer?
How is the job opportunity for a VLSI engineer?
Where to get training that is both hands-on and latest?
What are the latest courses available?
HPCC Systems Engineering Summit Presentation - Collaborative Research with FA...HPCC Systems
Presenters: Borko Furht, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science, FAU
In 2009, Florida Atlantic University (FAU) received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to create the site of the Center for Advanced Knowledge Enablement (CAKE) as an Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) that provides a framework for interaction between university faculty and industry in the areas of information technology, communication, and computing. LexisNexis is currently one of the CAKE industry members. In this session, we will talk about the significance of the membership, joint accomplishments, contributions back to the HPCC Systems community, as well as sharing experiences on including a Data Intensive Computing program in the FAU curriculum.
NOTE: This is one of 3 presentations for this session and is the 2nd one shown in the accompanying YouTube video.
This presentation contains the basics of FPGA design, what are HDL [hardware description languages], how VHDL design works on FPGA, what are the high tech applications, FPGA R & D opportunities, latest FPGA tools, resources and the National Activities on FPGA happened at Nepal.
A New Design Reuse Approach for Voip Implementation into Fpsocs and ASICS ijsc
The aim of this paper is to present a new design reuse approach for automatic generation of Voice over Internet protocol (VOIP) hardware description and implementation into FPSOCs and ASICs. Our motivation behind this work is justified by the following arguments: first, VOIP based System on chip (SOC) implementation is an emerging research and development area, where innovative applications can be implemented. Second, these systems are very complex and due to time to market pressure, there is a need to built platforms that help the designer to explore with different architectural possibilities and choose the circuit that best correspond to the specifications. Third, we aim to develop in hardware, design, methods and tools that are used in software like the MATLAB tool for VOIP implementation. To achieve our goal, the proposed design approach is based on a modular design of the VOIP architecture. The originality of our approach is the application of the design for reuse (DFR) and the design with reuse (DWR) concepts. To validate the approach, a case study of a SOC based on the OR1K processor is studied. We demonstrate that the proposed SoC architecture is reconfigurable, scalable and the final RTL code can be reused for any FPSOC or ASIC technology. As an example, Performances measures, in the VIRTEX-5 FPGA device family, and ASIC 65nm technology are shown through this paper.
Cultivating Sustainable Software For ResearchNeil Chue Hong
Keynote given at the NSF Cyberinfrastructure Software and Sustainability Workshop, March 26th-27th 2009, Indianapolis.
Exploration of software sustainability based on experiences from UK.
UberCloud HPC Experiment Introduction for Beginnershpcexperiment
UberCloud HPC Experiment Introduction for Beginners.
What is the HPC Experiment
How the HPC Experiment works
How to participate in the HPC Experiment
And an example project
Students and faculties can steup these labs and develop their own software core processors in their lab . There are examples running hello world program written in C compiled with ppc64 gcc. Many cool things you can do example run a dcoker containers etc.
The purpose of the lab to the latest skills required for Job opportunities in many industries . This helps faculties to develop their skills and publish papers in intenational conferences and also innovate solutions
How to become a successful VLSI engineer?
Why become a VLSI engineer?
How is the job opportunity for a VLSI engineer?
Where to get training that is both hands-on and latest?
What are the latest courses available?
HPCC Systems Engineering Summit Presentation - Collaborative Research with FA...HPCC Systems
Presenters: Borko Furht, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science, FAU
In 2009, Florida Atlantic University (FAU) received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to create the site of the Center for Advanced Knowledge Enablement (CAKE) as an Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) that provides a framework for interaction between university faculty and industry in the areas of information technology, communication, and computing. LexisNexis is currently one of the CAKE industry members. In this session, we will talk about the significance of the membership, joint accomplishments, contributions back to the HPCC Systems community, as well as sharing experiences on including a Data Intensive Computing program in the FAU curriculum.
NOTE: This is one of 3 presentations for this session and is the 2nd one shown in the accompanying YouTube video.
This presentation contains the basics of FPGA design, what are HDL [hardware description languages], how VHDL design works on FPGA, what are the high tech applications, FPGA R & D opportunities, latest FPGA tools, resources and the National Activities on FPGA happened at Nepal.
A New Design Reuse Approach for Voip Implementation into Fpsocs and ASICS ijsc
The aim of this paper is to present a new design reuse approach for automatic generation of Voice over Internet protocol (VOIP) hardware description and implementation into FPSOCs and ASICs. Our motivation behind this work is justified by the following arguments: first, VOIP based System on chip (SOC) implementation is an emerging research and development area, where innovative applications can be implemented. Second, these systems are very complex and due to time to market pressure, there is a need to built platforms that help the designer to explore with different architectural possibilities and choose the circuit that best correspond to the specifications. Third, we aim to develop in hardware, design, methods and tools that are used in software like the MATLAB tool for VOIP implementation. To achieve our goal, the proposed design approach is based on a modular design of the VOIP architecture. The originality of our approach is the application of the design for reuse (DFR) and the design with reuse (DWR) concepts. To validate the approach, a case study of a SOC based on the OR1K processor is studied. We demonstrate that the proposed SoC architecture is reconfigurable, scalable and the final RTL code can be reused for any FPSOC or ASIC technology. As an example, Performances measures, in the VIRTEX-5 FPGA device family, and ASIC 65nm technology are shown through this paper.
Cultivating Sustainable Software For ResearchNeil Chue Hong
Keynote given at the NSF Cyberinfrastructure Software and Sustainability Workshop, March 26th-27th 2009, Indianapolis.
Exploration of software sustainability based on experiences from UK.
UberCloud HPC Experiment Introduction for Beginnershpcexperiment
UberCloud HPC Experiment Introduction for Beginners.
What is the HPC Experiment
How the HPC Experiment works
How to participate in the HPC Experiment
And an example project
2. Research Support : Informatics Input Edinburgh University informatics: high performance enCORE processor Needs The ancillary support systems to enable thecore to be demonstrated (non-research) iSLI Engagement Provide FPGA daughterboard design and layout services Mentor research student through design process Outcomes Fully working board delivered on time, first time Performance exceeded design spec. and expectations 2
3. Pre-Start Up : Ewgeco Prior to iSLI – plastic box and lights EDTC – business and product support Shore Design – enclosure & visuals iSLI engagement – functional prototype EDSS – architectural scoping of requirements / pricing Contract – Development of first working prototype Outcome – Product launch with professional quality demo Post iSLI ECS (low volume prodn); Shore Design (aesthetic development) EDTC (continued business / strategic support) Recently iSLI re-engagement on production cost engineering removing $100 a unit from the bill of materials 3
4. Lone Inventor : Funky Moves Input Sole inventor with a simple wired solution iSLI Engagement Provide guidance and support on radio H/W Develop S/W stack to support operation Provide demonstration application and fullaccess to all code generated Outcomes Client had a working system to demonstrate to investors Market research could be undertaken Extension from games base learning, to fitness assessment, professional athletics and the armed forces. 4
5. High Growth : High Tech Input An idea, management duo and 1 process tech. iSLI Engagement Voucher Scheme Evaluate design space as initial feasibility study TTOM Develop first design iteration within area scoped by voucher Refine and evaluate to deliver acceptable performance Contract Further refine design and develop novel features Translate into masking files for fabrication Outcome International patent for MEMS technology Prototype devices and increased headcount; inc. MEMS designer Industry buyout for £2.9M in mixed cash and stocks 5
6. Established Player : Optos Optos PLC Wide angle laser scanning ophthalmoscopes Client required machine vision based automation Original research conducted by Heriot-Watt University Result was not fully functional but was notcomputationally affordable iSLI provided image processing design Algorithm down selection, mathematical modelling Embedded software development Production of commercial release grade code Link between the company and the University Client deployed release software went into the latest product University received experience & input to research roadmap 6
8. Structure & Aims Seven engineering staff - 70% PhDs Enabling electronics team – predominantly ex-industry; good pool MEMS – academic recruitment; no other pool to draw from Very broad technology expertise Analogue, digital, ASIC, S/W, wireless, image proc., MEMS, FPGA… Substantial further depth through University partners – CPD fuel… Tool Hub - commercially licensed design tool access Leading edge tools - Huge cost gulf for later stage R&D Hands on tool use for real prototype development Fully flexible engagement Market responsive service / skills provision 8
9. Activities Scoping of up-skilling activities De-risking potential new technology routes for companies Company Technical Mentoring Technology assistance, not services Work with the client to develop their solution and their capability Differentiated Market Engagement Principally SME base Significant engagement with companies invisible to development agencies CPD / Education Support Project definition & supervision for EngD and MSc Front line support for CPD modules / tool hub use 9
