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From: Osama Ali Arshad
Date: Thursday, December 22, 2011
Subject: Seminar on "Coarse-Grain Reconfigurable Arrays for Software Defined Radio Baseband Signal Processing"
To: Faculty <faculty@seecs.edu.pk>, Post Graduate Students <pg@seecs.edu.pk>, Students <students@seecs.edu.pk>
Cc: Academic Coordination Branch <acb@seecs.edu.pk>, Fatima Tauqir <fatima.tauqir@seecs.edu.pk>, Habeel Ahmad <habeel.ahmad@seecs.edu.pk>, "M. Afzal Khalid" <afzal.khalid@seecs.edu.pk>, Waqar Hussain <waqar.hussain@tut.fi>, ceo@rimsedu.com
Dear All
A seminar on the topic below has been arranged. All interested students and faculty are requested to attend the talk.
Title: Coarse-Grain Reconfigurable Arrays for Software Defined Radio Base-band Signal Processing
When: 1530-1700 Hrs, 23rd December, 2011
Where: RIMMS Seminar Hall, NUST,Sector H-12, Islamabad
About the Talk: The evolution of wireless standards and multimedia applications is demanding more processing bandwidth and throughput but the resources required for acceleration are becoming a limiting factor. Examples of such demanding applications are related but not limited to Multiple Input and Multiple Output (MIMO) Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) System and H.264 video codec. In mobile devices, sometimes such a high bandwidth is not required and it is better that the device works on a low profile by reducing the hardware resources at run-time to save energy. To achieve this, we need scalable and�reconfigurable hardware/software. Run-time scalability, reconfigurability and dependability in hardware devices is the requirement for next generation�wireless standards and multimedia applications. At present general-purpose accelerators, for example Coarse-Grain Reconfigurable Arrays (CGRAs) lack�scalability and dependability. In recent past, much of the focus was on to design and exploit the run-time reconfigurable feature of CGRAs to execute and switch back and forth between different computationally intensive kernels. Examples of some of the CGRAs are MorphoSys, ADRES, PACT-XPP,�BUTTER and CREMA. In the lecture, the focus will be on the design of CGRAs and mapping of computationally intensive signal processing kernels for different wireless standards.�
About the Speaker:�Waqar Hussain is working as Research Scientist at Tampere University of Technology, Finland. His research interests include systems that are specialized for signal processing algorithms used in software defined radio applications. The main focus is on the concepts related to low area and high speed Coarse Grain Reconfigurable Arrays working in a processor and coprocessor model. It further includes optimized mapping of different length and types of Fast Fourier Transform Algorithms. He also has interest in implementation of Forward Error Correcting Codes at the hardware and software level. Currently he is a Ph.D student in Department of Computer Systems, Tampere University of Technology, Finland. He has an M.Sc degree in Digital and Computer Systems from Tampere University of Technology, Finland www.tut.fi and a B.Sc degree in Computer Engineering from COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan www.ciit.edu.pk. He worked for three years in Research Instruments and Measurement Systems, Pakistan www.rimsedu.com first as an application engineer and later as a design engineer. His work included design of systems based on FPGAs, instrumentation and measurement, automation, documentation and testing of electronic and mechanical systems using National Instruments hardware and LabVIEW. It also included conducting and delivering technical training courses to the engineers and scientists of different private and public sector organizations and universities. He is the recipient of second prize of �First all Pakistan NESCOM competition on Embedded Systems�, the highest national level competition in Pakistan in 2006. He was also invited as a guest speaker at the Department of Mathematics, Quaid-i-Azam, University Islamabad and Center for Cyber Technology and Spectrum Management, National University of Science and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Kind Regards
Osama Ali Arshad��| �Lecturer
School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (SEECS)
National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST)
Sector H-12, Islamabad, Pakistan
Tel.: +92(0)51-9085-2261
E-mail:�Osama.Arshad@seecs.edu.pk
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