Iqra Safder has joined ITU as Teacher Assistant for Advance Computer Architecture course in Spring 2016. Iqra is currently  working as Visiting Lecturer in PUCIT from last one year and herself a student of MPhil in Computer Science at PUCIT. She has completed her Bachelor’s in Software Engineering  from PUCIT in 2014. Her research interests are in field of Business Process modeling, Data-ware Housing, Image Processing, and Graph Theory.

updated: 11/03/2016

Ahmad Awais is a Professional Services Consultant with 2.5+ years of work experience in software industry. Ahmad is currently working in Teradata Applications Development/Migrations department of Teradata GDC since June 2014. He started his career in the IT industry back in 2013 as software engineer. He has served the software industry and his clients in multiple domains of information technology. His roles at work include compiler/software development, production support, data analysis and consultancy. He believes in delivering quality solutions to win and maintain a trustworthy business relationship with his clients.

updated: 09/03/2016

ECLab is pleased to announce that its team, in collaboration with Lip6 Laboratory, University of Pierre & Marie Curie (UPMC), France, has published a paper entitled “A Novel Heterogeneous FPGA Architecture Based on Memristor-Transistor Hybrid Approach” in the 11^th International Conference on Design &Technology of Integrated Systems in Nanoscale Era (DTIS),  April 12-14, 2016, Istanbul, Turkey!

Abstract:

Heterogeneous Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are now considered as a practical alternative to Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) thanks to their generalized nature and fast time to market. However, the performance gap between FPGAs and ASICs is still very significant, particularly in terms of area. In this work, we propose a novel heterogeneous FPGA architecture based on memristor-transistor hybrid approach that gives better results as compared to conventional transistor-only heterogeneous FPGA; thus reducing the gap between FPGAs and ASICs. Memristor-transistor based hybrid building blocks of heterogeneous FPGA architecture are designed and simulated in this work. Results show that hybrid blocks are 23%-75% smaller compared to transistor-only blocks. Furthermore, a generalized exploration flow is also developed where a combination of open source and indigenously developed tools gives end-to-end exploration experience. In the experiments, we have demonstrated the placement and routing of at least 10 different heterogeneous benchmarks on proposed hybrid as well as conventional heterogeneous FPGAs using the exploration flow. Results show that proposed hybrid architecture, on average, consumes 56% less logic area, 60% less routing area; thus leading to 59% total area gain compared to conventional architecture.

Salman Taha, student of MS in Computer Science batch 2014 at ITU, has joined ECLab for his MS thesis on “Secure and Dynamic Application Deployment in Many-Core Architecture” under the supervision of Dr. Khurram Bhatti. The research work carried out in his thesis will contribute to the TSUNAMY project.

Salman Taha did Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering from UET, Lahore in 2012 with minor in Computer Engineering. He has over 3 years of experience of working in Software industry. He is currently pursuing Masters in Computer Science at ITU, Lahore. Salman Taha’s research interests include Multi/Many Core scheduling, Cloud Computing, Advance OS, and Embedded Systems

updated: 18/02/2016