AMWAS Workshop

Our group presented a platform for digital signal processing in FPGA-based embedded systems at the Aether-Morpheus Workshop and Summer School in Paris. The platform provides extensions to the Xilinx EDK tool that implement efficient floating-point vector operations. The platform is based on a network of heterogenous reprogrammable worker units. Each unit contains several basic floating-point operations (e.g. ADD, MUL) that can be interconnected in several ways; each such configuration implements a basic vector operation (e.g. VADD, VMAC). The software configurability and reprogrammability increases reuse of the hardware function units, and reduces the complexity of the final data path.

Jiri Kadlec
November 20, 2007

SoC2007 Conference

Our group will present a novel emulation technique for fault emulation in generic netlists at the SOC conference in Tampere. The technique has been developed within RETAC project.

Leos Kafka
November 16, 2007

FPL2007 Conference

Our group will present two short papers at the FPL conference in Amsterdam. The first paper will describe our flexible platform for acceleration of floating-point calculations in MicroBlaze. The second paper will describe an implementation of an RLS lattice filter with probabilistic order estimation.

Martin Danek
August 15, 2007

UTIA at EW2007

UTIA gave two invited presentations at a workshop on embedded systems in the Czech Republic, organized at the Embedded World 2007 in Nurnberg. The first talk described the embedded systems research carried out in the Czech Republic, while the second talk showed work done at UTIA in partial runtime reconfiguration of FPGAs. More details can be found at the Czech FP7 web (in Czech) or at the web of the German-Czech Chamber of Industry and Commerce (Czech or German).

Martin Danek
April 23, 2007

UTIA Stand at IST2006

Our group will present two FPGA-based demos at the PicoNet stand at the IST2006 event next week in Helsinki. The first demo will show an interactive mixed-signal oscilloscope with data capture and visualization of analog data. The oscilloscope design has been implemented in three separate FPGA configurations programmed in the Celoxica DK4 tool. The second demo will demonstrate high-throughput DSP computation in a network of PicoBlaze processors with reconfigurable hardware accelerators. More information can be found at the official IST2006 PicoNet exhibit page.
We are looking forward to meeting you there.
Visit our virtual booth.

Jiri Kadlec
November 14, 2006

2006 MAPLD International Conference

We will present Reconfigurable Handel-C FSL accelerators for MicroBlaze poster at the MAPLD 2006 conference in Washington D.C., USA (Sep. 26-28, 2006). The poster shows concept of SW reconfigurable HW accelerators with a platform independent interface.

Roman Bartosinski
Sept. 21, 2006