Given past discussions on building key crackers using FPGAs, I thought this forum might be of interest to people. - Bill >Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 21:40:26 PDT >From: Michelle Q Wang Baldonado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: CORRECTION: PARC Forum 5/13 -- Reiner Hartenstein. >"Reconfigurable Computing: Taking Off to Overcome the Microprocessor" >Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >[The Subject: of the previous message erroneously listed 5/6 as the >date of the Reiner Hartenstein Forum. The correct date is 5/13. >Apologies for the resend. --mqwb] > >XEROX PARC FORUM > >Thursday, May 13th > >4:00 - 5:00 p.m. > > >PROF. DR.-ING. REINER W. HARTENSTEIN > >Kaiserslautern University > >will talk about > >"Reconfigurable Computing: Taking Off to Overcome the Microprocessor" > >Current and future microprocessor-based hardware systems dedicate a >growing share of silicon real estate to add-on accelerator circuitry - >to cope with the limitations by the "von Neumann bottleneck". Already >now the microprocessor is the tail wagging the dog. Being hardwired >the rapidly growing variety of accelerators suffers from shrinking >product life cycles, a rapidly growing variety of circuit types, and, >increasing design cost. Requirements still grow faster than the power >of design tools and methods. > >Reconfigurable hardware is the way out of this second design crisis: >Designing and upgrading by downloading reconfiguration code derived >from structural "programs" rather than from procedural programs. FPGAs >and their application development tools cannot meet high performance >requirements. The talk gives a survey on new hardware platforms and >compilation techniques for Reconfigurable Computing, as well as on its >role in future generations of desktop, portable, and handheld >computing, multimedia, and, communication equipment. > > >BIO: > >Dr.-Ing. Reiner W. Hartenstein is professor of Computer Science and >Engineering at Kaiserslautern University, where he is also heading the >Computer Structures Group (CSG: http://xputers.informatik.uni-kl.de), >a research group currently focused on Reconfigurable Computing and >ardware / Software Co-Compilation. > >This group is the origin of the KressArray methodology for >reconfigurable datapaths (see: >http://xputers.informatik.uni-kl.de/FAQ-Pages/KressALU.html), and the >Xputer machine paradigm (see: >http://xputers.informatik.uni-kl.de/xputer/index_xputer.html) for >reconfigurable computing machines - being the exact counterpart of the >"von Neumann" paradigm for hardwired machines. (An Xputer runs >configware, instead of software.) > >Reiner Hartenstein (see: >http://xputers.informatik.uni-kl.de/staff/hartenstein.html) received >all his academic degrees from the EE Department at Karlsruhe >University. He is senior member of the IEEE and member of the >ACM. His background from earlier activities also covers pattern >recognition, image processing, and VLSI design tools and methods. From >the early 80ies he is known as the founder of the West German Multi >University VLSI Design Project "E.I.S. Project". That's why Lynn >Conway has called him "the German Carver Mead". > > > >This Forum is OPEN to the public. > >Refreshments will be served from 3:45 to 4:00. > > >The George Pake Auditorium is located at Xerox PARC, 3333 Coyote Hill >Road in Palo Alto, off of Page Mill Road. > >>From Page Mill Road, turn South on Foothill Expressway, then right on >Hillview, and take the second entrance to the right. > >Park in the large parking lot and enter the auditorium at the upper >level of the building. The auditorium is located to the left of and >down the stairs from the main entrance. > > >Note to Xerox employees and contractors: remember to bring your badge >for re-entry to building 35. > > >There is a map to PARC at: > >http://www.parc.xerox.com/images/maptoparc.gif. > > >Forum Coordinators: > > Michelle Baldonado ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 650 812-4797 > Dan Larner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 650 812-4871 > > >Xerox employees may purchase a copy of the forum videotape by >contacting Mimi Gardner, [EMAIL PROTECTED] A circulation copy >will be available to Palo Alto employees through the PARC Information >Center, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >PARC Forum Web addresses: > > External: http://www.parc.xerox.com/forum > > Internal: http://parcweb.parc.xerox.com/events/forum > > >Michelle Baldonado, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Xerox Parc, 3333 Coyote Hill Rd, Palo Alto CA 94304 >
