Selected Publications
Cameron Patterson, Brian Martin, Steve Ellingson, John Simonetti and Sean Cutchin, "FPGA Cluster Computing in the ETA Radio Telescope", Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Field Programmable Technology, ICFPT 2007, Kokurakita, Kitakyushu, Japan, Dec 2007.
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Aric D. Blumer and Cameron D. Patterson, "Hardware/Software Process Migration and RTL Simulation", Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications, FPL 2007, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Aug 2007.
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Aric D. Blumer, Henning Mortveit, and Cameron D. Patterson, "Formal Modeling of Process Migration", Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications, FPL 2007, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Aug 2007.
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Peter Athanas, John Bowen, Tim Dunham, Cameron Patterson, Justin Rice, Matt Shelburne, Jorge Suris, Mark Bucciero, and Jonathan Graf, "Wires on Demand: Run-time Communication Synthesis for Reconfigurable Computing", Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications, FPL 2007, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Aug 2007.
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Stephen Craven and Peter Athanas, "Examining the Viability of FPGA Supercomputing", EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems, Volume 2007, online, Jul 2007.
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Neil Steiner and Peter Athanas, "Autonomous Computing Systems: A Proof-of-Concept", Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms, ERSA 2007, Las Vegas, NV, Jun 2007.
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Neil Steiner and Peter Athanas, "Autonomous Computing Systems: A Proposed Roadmap", Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms, ERSA 2007, Las Vegas, NV, Jun 2007.
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Stephen Craven and Peter Athanas, "High-Level Specification of Runtime Reconfigurable Designs", Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms, ERSA 2007, Las Vegas, NV, Jun 2007.
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Peter Athanas and Cameron Patterson, "A Hollistic Approach Towards a Unified CpE Laboratory Platform", Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Microelectronic Systems Education, MSE 2007, San Diego, CA, Jun 2007.
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Tingting Meng and Peter Athanas, "Collaborative Signal Reinforcement in Sensor Networks", Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, AINA 07, Niagara Falls, Canada, May 2007.
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Todd Fleming and Peter Athanas, "Demodulator design for collaborative signal reinforcement in sensor networks", Proceedings of IEEE Southeast Conference 2007, SoutheastCon 2007, Richmond, VA, Mar 2007.
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Stephen Craven, "Structured Approach to Dynamic Computing Application Development", Ph.D. Preliminary Exam, Blacksburg, VA, Oct 2006.
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Stephen Craven and Peter Athanas, "A High-Level Development Framework for Run-Time Reconfigurable Applications", Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference on Military and Aerospace Programmable Logic Devices, MAPLD 2006, Washington, DC, Sep 2006.
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Brac Webb, "Methods for Securing the Integrity of FPGA Configurations", Master's Thesis, Blacksburg, VA, Aug 2006.
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Christopher Zeh, "Softwear: A Flexible Design Framework For Electronic Textile Systems", Master's Thesis, Blacksburg, VA, Apr 2006.
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Christopher Einsmann, "A Validation of a Simulation Environment for Motion Sensing Electronic Textiles", Master's Thesis, Blacksburg, VA, Feb 2006.
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Anthony J. Mahar, Peter M. Athanas, Stephen D. Craven, Joshua N. Edmison, and Jonathan Graf, "Design and Characterization of a Hardware Encryption Management Unit for Secure Computing Platforms", Proceedings of the 39th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2006 / MOCHA 2006, Kauai, HI, Jan 2006.
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Stephen Craven, Cameron Patterson, and Peter Athanas, "A Methodology for Generating Application-Specific Heterogeneous Processor Arrays", Proceedings of the 39th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2006 / MOCHA 2006, Kauai, HI, Jan 2006.
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Christopher Einsmann, Meghan Quirk, Ben Muzal, Bharath Venkatramani, Thomas Martin, and Mark Jones, "Modeling a Wearable Full-body Motion Capture System", Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on Wearable Computers, ISWC 2005, Osaka, Japan, Oct 2005.
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Deepak Agarwal, "An 8 GHz Ultra Wideband Transceiver Testbed", Master's Thesis, Blacksburg, VA, Oct 2005.
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Brian Marshall, "A Swarm Intelligence Approach to Distributed Mobile Surveillance", Master's Thesis, Blacksburg, VA, Sep 2005.
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Stephen Craven, Cameron Patterson, and Peter Athanas, "Configurable Soft Processor Arrays Using the OpenFire Processor", Proceedings of the 8th Annual Conference on Military and Aerospace Programmable Logic Devices, MAPLD 2005, Washington, DC, Sep 2005.
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Dan Nash, "An Intrusion Detection System for Battery Exhaustion Attacks on Mobile Computers", Master's Thesis, Blacksburg, VA, May 2005.
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Neil Steiner and Peter Athanas, "Hardware-Software Interaction: Preliminary Observations", Proceedings of the 12th Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop, RAW 2005, Denver, CO, Apr 2005.
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Dong Kwan Kim, Cameron Patterson, and Peter Athanas, "Open Architecture Hierarchical Placement for FPGA Datapath Designs", Proceedings of the International Workshop on Applied Reconfigurable Computing, ARC 2005, Algarve, Portugal, Feb 2005.
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Madhup Chandra, "Electronic Textiles for Autonomous Location Awareness", Master's Thesis, Blacksburg, VA, Dec 2004.
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Nikhil Bhatia, "A Physical Layer Implementation of Reconfigurable Radio", Master's Thesis, Blacksburg, VA, Dec 2004.
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Madhup Chandra, Mark Jones, and Thomas Martin, "E-Textiles for Autonomous Location Awareness", Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Wearable Computers, ISWC 2004, Arlington, VA, Nov 2004.
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Ryan Fong, "Improving Field-Programmable Gate Array Scaling Through Wire Emulation", Master's Thesis, Blacksburg, VA, Sep 2004.
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Stephen Craven, Cameron Patterson, and Peter Athanas, "Super-sized Multiplies: How Do FPGAs Fare in Extended Digit Multipliers?", Proceedings of the 7th Annual Conference on Military and Aerospace Programmable Logic Devices, MAPLD 2004, Washington, DC, Sep 2004.
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Alexandra Poetter, "JHDLBits: An Open-Source Model for FPGA Design Automation", Master's Thesis, Blacksburg, VA, Aug 2004.
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Alexandra Poetter, Jesse Hunter, Cameron Patterson, Peter Athanas, Brent Nelson, and Neil Steiner, "JHDLBits: The Merging of Two Worlds", Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications, FPL 2004, Antwerp, Belgium, Aug 2004.
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Jonathan Graf and Peter Athanas, "A Key Management Architecture for Securing Off-Chip Data Transfers", Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications, FPL 2004, Antwerp, Belgium, Aug 2004.
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Aditya Chaubal, "Design and Implementation of an FPGA-based Partially Reconfigurable Network Controller", Master's Thesis, Blacksburg, VA, Jul 2004.
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Alexandra Poetter, Peter Athanas, and Cameron Patterson, "JHDLBits", Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms, ERSA 2004, Las Vegas, NV, Jun 2004.
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Zahi Nakad, Mark Jones, and Thomas Martin, "Fault-Tolerant Networks for Electronic Textiles", Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Communications in Computing, CIC 2004, Las Vegas, NV, Jun 2004.
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Mark Jones, Thomas Martin, Josh Edmison, Tanwir Shiekh, and Zahi Nakad, "Modeling and Simulating Electronic Textile Applications", Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED 2004 Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems, LCTES 2004, Washington, DC, Jun 2004.
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Jesse Hunter, "A Device-Level FPGA Simulator", Master's Thesis, Blacksburg, VA, Jun 2004.
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Jesse Hunter, Peter Athanas, and Cameron Patterson, "VTsim: A Virtex-II Device Simulator", Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms, ERSA 2004, Las Vegas, NV, Jun 2004.
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Thomas Hartka, "Cellular Automata for Structural Optimization on Recongfigurable Computers", Master's Thesis, Blacksburg, VA, May 2004.
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Neil Steiner and Peter Athanas, "An Alternate Wire Database for Xilinx FPGAs", Proceedings of the 12th Annual IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, FCCM 2004, Napa, CA, Apr 2004.
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Joshua Edmison, "Electronic Textiles for Motion Analysis", Master's Thesis, Blacksburg, VA, Apr 2004.
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David Lehn, Craig Neely, Kevin Schoonover, Thomas Martin, and Mark Jones, "e-TAGS: e-Textile Attached Gadgets", Proceedings of the 2004 Communication Networks and Distributed Systems Modeling and Simulation Conference, CNDS 2004, San Diego, CA, Jan 2004.
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Scott Harper and Peter Athanas, "A Security Policy Based upon Hardware Encryption", Proceedings of the 37th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Big Island, HI, Jan 2004.
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Ravi Anilkumar, "Energy-Efficient Measurement of Coverage in Distributed Sensor Networks", Master's Thesis, Blacksburg, VA, Jan 2004.
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Zahi Nakad, "Architectures for e-Textiles", Ph.D. Dissertation, Blacksburg, VA, Dec 2003.
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James Hendry, "The Effects of Caching on Reconfigurable Adaptive Computing Systems", Master's Thesis, Blacksburg, VA, Dec 2003.
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Josh Edmison, Mark Jones, Thurmon Lockhart, and Thomas Martin, "An E-Textile System for Motion Analysis", Proceedings of the International Workshop on a New Generation of Wearable Systems for eHealth, NGWSH 2003, Lucca, Italy, Dec 2003.
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Thomas Martin, Mark Jones, Josh Edmison, and Ravi Shenoy, "Towards a design framework for wearable electronic textiles", Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Wearable Computers, ISWC 2003, White Plains, NY, Oct 2003.
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Mark Jones, Thomas Martin, Zahi Nakad, Ravi Shenoy, Tanwir Sheikh, Dave Lehn, Josh Edmison, and Madhup Chandra, "Analyzing the Use of E-textiles to Improve Application Performance", Proceedings of the 58th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference 2003, Symposium on Wireless Ad hoc, Sensor, and Wearable Networks, VTC 2003, Orlando, FL, Oct 2003.
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Ravi Shenoy, "Design of e-textiles for acoutsic applications", Master's Thesis, Blacksburg, VA, Sep 2003.
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Tanwir Sheikh, "Modeling of Power Consumption and Fault Tolerance for Electronic Textiles", Master's Thesis, Blacksburg, VA, Sep 2003.
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Zahi Nakad, Mark Jones, and Thomas Martin, "Communications in Electronic Textile Systems", Proceedings of the International Conference on Communications in Computing, CIC 2003, Las Vegas, NV, Jun 2003.
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Ryan Fong, Scott Harper, and Peter Athanas, "A Versatile Framework for FPGA Field Updates: An Application of Partial Self-Reconfiguration", Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Workshop on Rapid System Prototyping, San Diego, CA, Jun 2003.
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Scott Harper, "A Secure Adaptive Network Processor", Ph.D. Dissertation, Blacksburg, VA, Apr 2003.
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Nick Pappas, "Searching Biological Sequence Databases Using Distributed Adaptive Computing", Master's Thesis, Blacksburg, VA, Jan 2003.
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Jing Ma, "Incremental Design Techniques with Non-Preemptive Refinement for Million-Gate FPGAs", Ph.D. Dissertation, Blacksburg, VA, Jan 2003.
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Mark Jones, Thomas Martin, and Zahi Nakad, "A Service Backplane for E-Textile Applications", Proceedings of the Workshop on Modeling, Analysis, and Middleware Support for Electronic Textiles, MAMSET 2002, San Jose, CA, Oct 2002.
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Josh Edmison, Mark Jones, Zahi Nakad, and Thomas Martin, "Using Piezoelectric Materials for Wearable Electronic Textiles", Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Wearable Computers, ISWC 2002, Victoria, BC, Canada, Oct 2002.
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Neil Steiner, "A Standalone Wire Database for Routing and Tracing in Xilinx Virtex, Virtex-E, and Virtex-II FPGAs", Master's Thesis, Blacksburg, VA, Aug 2002.
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Arya Abraham, "It is I : An Authentication System for a Reconfigurable Radio", Master's Thesis, Blacksburg, VA, Aug 2002.
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Will Worek, "Matching Genetic Sequences in Distributed Adaptive Computing Systems", Master's Thesis, Blacksburg, VA, Jul 2002.
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Mukta Nandwani, "Real-time Remote Visualization of Scientific Data", Master's Thesis, Blacksburg, VA, May 2002.
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David Lehn, "Framework for a Context-Switching Run-Time Reconfigurable System", Master's Thesis, Blacksburg, VA, May 2002.
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Jonathan E. Scalera, Creed F. Jones, Maneesh Soni, Mark Bucciero, Scott Harper, Lynn Abbott, and Amitabh Mishra, "Reconfigurable Object Detection in FLIR Image Sequences", IEEE Symposium on Field Programmable Custom Computing Machines, Napa, California, Apr 2002.
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Kiran Puttegowda, "Context Switching Strategies in a Run-Time Reconfigurable system", Master's Thesis, Blacksburg, VA, Apr 2002.
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Shashank Mehrotra, "Distributed Algorithms for Tasking Large Sensor Networks", Master's Thesis, Blacksburg, VA, Jul 2001.
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Jon Scalera, "Image Chipping with a Common Architecture for Microsensors (CAuS)", Master's Thesis, Blacksburg, VA, Jul 2001.
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Santiago Leon, "A Self-Reconfiguring Platform For Embedded Systems", Master's Thesis, Blacksburg, VA, Jul 2001.
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Maneesh Soni, "VLSI Implementation of a Wormhole Runtime Reconfigurable Processor", Master's Thesis, Blacksburg, VA, Jun 2001.
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Jonathan Ballagh, "An FPGA-based Run-time Reconfigurable 2-D Discrete Wavelet Transform Core", Master's Thesis, Blacksburg, VA, Jun 2001.
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Jonathan Ballagh, Peter Athanas, and Eric Keller, "Java Debug Hardware Models using JBits", Proceedings of the 8th Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop, RAW 2001, San Francisco, CA, Apr 2001.
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David I. Lehn, Rhett D. Hudson, Peter M Athanas, "Framework for architecture-independent run-time reconfigurable applications", SPIE Proceedings, Boston, MA, Nov 2000.
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Zahi Nakad, "High Performance Applications on Reconfigurable Clusters", Master's Thesis, Blacksburg, VA, Sep 2000.
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David C. Lee, Scott J. Harper, Peter M. Athanas, and Scott F. Midkiff, "A Stream-based Reconfigurable Router Prototype", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications, Vancouver, B.C., Jun 1999.
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Mark Jones, Luke Scharf, Jonathan Scott, Chris Twaddle, Matthew Yaconis, Kuan Yao, Peter Athanas, and Brian Schott, "Implementing an API for Distributed Adaptive Computing Systems", Proceedings of the 7th Annual IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, FCCM 1999, Napa, CA, Apr 1999.
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Jason R. Hess, David C. Lee, Scott J. Harper, Mark T. Jones, and Peter M. Athanas, "Implementation and evaluation of a Prototype Reconfigurable Router", Proceedings of the 7th Annual IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, FCCM 1999, Napa, California, Apr 1999.
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Paul Master and Peter M. Athanas, "Reconfigurable Computing Offers Options For 3G", Wireless Systems Design, Jan 1999.
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Mark T. Jones, Michael A. Langston and Padma Raghavan, "Tools for mapping applications to CCMs", presented at SPIE Photonics East 1998, Boston, MA, Nov 1998.
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Rhett D. Hudson, David Lehn, Jason Hess, James Atwell, David Moye, Ken Shiring, and Peter M Athanas, "Spatio-Temporal Partitioning of Computational Structures onto Configurable Computing Machines", presented at SPIE Photonics East 1998, Boston, MA, Nov 1998.
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Karthik Ramachandran, "Unstructured Finite Element Computations on Configurable Computers", Master's Thesis, Aug 1998.
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Suresh Chandrasekhar, "Partitioning Methods and Algorithms for Configurable Computing Machines", Master's Thesis, Aug 1998.
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Steve Swanchara, Scott Harper, and Peter Athanas, "A Stream-Based Configurable Computing Radio Testbed", Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on FPGAs for Custom Configurable Computing Machines, FCCM 1998, Napa, California, Apr 1998.
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David C. Lee, Scott F. Midkiff, and Peter M. Athanas, "Routers: A New Paradigm for Switching Device Architecture", Apr 1998.
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Rhett D. Hudson, David I. Lehn, and Peter M. Athanas, "A Run-Time Reconfigurable Engine for Image Interpolation", Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on FPGAs for Custom Configurable Computing Machines, FCCM 1998, Napa, California, Apr 1998.
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Yingchun He, "VLSI Implementation of a Run-time Configurable Computing Integrated Circuit - The Stallion Chip", Master's Thesis, Apr 1998.
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Ray A. Bittner, Jr. and Peter M. Athanas, "Wormhole Run-time Reconfiguration", Proceedings of the ACM 5th International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays, FPGA 1997, Monterey, CA, Feb 1997.
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Ray A. Bittner, Jr., "Wormhole Run-Time Reconfiguration: Conceptualization and VLSI Design of a High Performance Computing System", Ph.D. Dissertation, Blacksburg, VA, Jan 1997.
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James B. Peterson and Peter M. Athanas, "Resource pools: an abstraction for configurable computing co-design", presented at SPIE Photonics East 1996, Boston, MA,, Nov 1996.
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Kevin J. Paar and Peter M. Athanas, "Implementation of a Finite Difference Method on a Custom Computing Platform", presented at SPIE Photonics East 1996, Boston, MA, Nov 1996.
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Ray A. Bittner, Jr., Peter M. Athanas and Mark D. Musgrove, "Colt: An Experiment in Wormhole Run-Time Reconfiguration", presented at SPIE Photonics East 1996, Boston, MA, Nov 1996.
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James B. Peterson, R. Brendan O'Connor, and Peter M. Athanas, "Scheduling and Partitioning ANSI-C Programs onto Multi-FPGA CCM Architectures", Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on FPGAs for Custom Configurable Computing Machines, FCCM 1996, Napa, California, Apr 1996.
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James B. Peterson and Peter M. Athanas, "High-Speed 2-D Convolution with a Custom Computing Machine", Journal for VLSI and Signal Processing, Jan 1996.
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Adit Tarmaster, Peter M. Athanas, and A. Lynn Abbott, "Accelerating Image Filters Using a Custom Computing Machine", presented at SPIE Photonics East 1995, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Oct 1995.
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Peter Athanas, Lynn Abbott, Mark Cherbaka, Bharadwaj Pudipeddi, and Kevin Paar, "A custom computing solution to automated visual inspection of silicon wafers", presented at SPIE Photonics East 1995, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Oct 1995.
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Nabeel Shirazi, Peter M. Athanas, and A. Lynn Abbott, "Implementation of a 2-D Fast Fourier Transform on a FPGA-Based Custom Computing Machine", presented at the 5th International Workshop on Field Programmable Logic and Applications, FPL 1995, Oxford, UK, Sep 1995.
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Ramana V. Rachakonda, "High-Speed Region Detection and Labeling using an FPGA-based Custom Computing Platform", 5th International Workshop on Field Programmable Logic and Applications, FPL 1995, Oxford, UK, Sep 1995.
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Nabeel Shirazi, Al Walters, and Peter Athanas, "Quantitative Analysis of Floating Point Arithmetic on FPGA Based Custom Computing Machines", Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on FPGAs for Custom Computing Machines, FCCM 1995, Napa, California, Apr 1995.
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Peter M. Athanas and A. Lynn Abbott, "Addressing the Computational Requirements of Image Processing with a Custom Computing Machine: An Overview", Proceedings of the 9th International Parallel Processing Symposium, IPPS 1995, Santa Barbara, CA, Apr 1995.
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A. Lynn Abbott, Peter M. Athanas, Luna Chen, and Robert L. Elliott, "Finding Lines and Building Pyramids with Splash 2", Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Workshop on FPGAs for Custom Computing Machines, FCCM 1994, Napa, California, Apr 1994.
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