Configurable Computing This page summarizes selected projects accomplished by the Spring 2006 class of ECE5530 taught at Virginia Tech. INSTRUCTOR: PETER ATHANAS

Class Topics History of Configurable Computing The Players: Academia and Industry Devices and Technologies System Architectures Application Analysis and Benchmarking Low-level Bitstream Manipulation High-level Compilers and Design Accelerators Run-time Reconfiguration Evolvable and Adaptive Systems Guest Lecturers Dr. Paul Graham Los Alamos National Laboratory Dr. Steven Guccione (via video) CMPWare, Inc. Dr. Apostolos Dollas Technical Univ. of Crete Dr. Cameron Patterson Virginia Tech

Course Structure The students are given the opportunity to participate in roughly 14 structured assignments in addition to student-defined projects. Students were free to work individually or in teams. Most of the projects were performed on Dini DN3000K10 nodes. Each node contains five Xilinx XC2V4000 FPGAs, The Dini boards were organized into two server nodes: one server node was populated with five DN3000K10 nodes, while a second contained two nodes. Selected Student Projects Click on the appropriate link to see the student’s contribution Michael Avitabile, MSCpE Student Matt Benz, MSCpE Student Matt Blanton, MSCpE Student Yousef Iskander, PhD Student Shawn Lewis, BSCpE Student Eric Lorden, MSCpE Student Andrew Love, MSCpE Student Lael Matthews, PhD Student Tingting Meng, PhD Student Ben Muzal, MSCpE Student JD Newcomb, MSEE Student Braden Sawyer, MSCpE Student Matt Shelburne, MSEE Student Jorge Suris, PhD Student J. “Brac” Webb, MSEE Student