May 2, 2013
Two papers authored by ECE professor Paul Chow have been selected among the 25 most significant of the past 20 years of IEEE’s International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM). The list was released to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the conference.
Chow’s 1996 paper “OneChip: An FPGA Processor with Reconfigurable Logic” co-authored with Ralph D. Wittig, which appeared in the Architecture and Technology category, and his 2004 paper “Reconfigurable Molecular Dynamics Simulator” with Navid Azizi, Ian Kuon, Aaron Egier and Ahmad Darabiha in the Applications category both made the list.
These best papers capture pioneering work that has clarified the landscape, provided key tools, opened areas of research, resolved serious problems, illuminated difficult issues and illustrated innovative ways to use field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and other reconfigurable computing devices. The papers span all areas of concern to the conference including architecture, programming, tools, and applications of reconfigurable computing. These papers capture the birth and growth of reconfigurable computing, and represent “must read” background for research in the field.
The papers were selected by a year-long process that started with nominations from the entire FPGA and Reconfigurable Computing community. Nominated papers were reviewed by a panel of experts who have been active contributors to the conference. Reviewed papers were then ranked against one another by the panel and the final 25 papers were chosen by consensus of the experts. These 25 papers represent about five per cent of the total papers that have appeared in the FCCM Symposium.
More information:
Marit Mitchell
Senior Communications Officer, ECE
416-978-7997; marit.mitchell@utoronto.ca