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SUMMARY:IC Colloquium - Constructive Computer Architecture: A New Approach
  to R & D of Digital Systems
DTSTART:20131125T161500
DTEND:20131125T173000
DTSTAMP:20260407T163447Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Arvind - Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laborato
 ry\, Massachusetts Institute of Technology\nAbstract:\nThere is unpreceden
 ted need for special-purpose hardware – driven primarily by power constr
 aints of mobile devices. Special purpose hardware can save two to three or
 ders of magnitude in power over pure software solutions\, and unlike the o
 ld days the hardware-software interface is now a constantly moving boundar
 y.  The risks of designing such HW-SW systems can be mitigated substantia
 lly if one can build a fast\, accurate and flexible prototype of the syste
 m quickly.  For this architectural renaissance we need a new constructive
  design methodology which requires (1) Reusing complex blocks designed by 
 domain expertise\; (2) Experimenting with designs to achieve goals such as
  cost\, performance\, and power\; and (3) Conducting high-fidelity full sy
 stem simulation\, including software.  We will illustrate such a  method
 ology using some of our recent projects\, which include AirBlue (a wireles
 s baseband processing system)\, H.264\, Sparse FFT\, BlueDBM (a 16-node ma
 chines with programmable Flash controllers)\, and Arete (a FPGA-based cycl
 e-accurate High-performance Mulicore Simulator).Biography:\nArvind is the 
 Johnson Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT. Arvind’s g
 roup\, in collaboration with Motorola\, built the Monsoon dataflow machine
 s and its associated software in the late eighties. In 2000\, Arvind start
 ed Sandburst which was sold to Broadcom in 2006. In 2003\, Arvind co-found
 ed Bluespec Inc.\, an EDA company to produce a set of tools for high-level
  synthesis. In 2001\, Dr. R. S. Nikhil and Arvind published the book "Impl
 icit parallel programming in pH". Arvind's current research focus is on en
 abling rapid development of embedded systems.\nArvind is a Fellow of IEEE 
 and ACM\, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the Amer
 ican Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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