Talk: Adaptive Networks-on-Chip

Speaker: Luigi Carro – Professor at UFRGS

Short-Bio:

He received the electrical engineering, M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree in computer science from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 1985, 1989, and 1996, respectively. From 1989 to 1991, he worked with the R&D Group, ST-Microelectronics, Agrate, Italy. He is currently a Professor with the Applied Informatics Department, Informatics Institute, UFRGS. His primary research interests include embedded systems design, validation, automation and test, fault tolerance for future technologies, and rapid system prototyping. He has published over 150 technical papers on those topics and is the author of the book Digital Systems Design and Prototyping (Editora da Universidade, 2001, in portuguese) and coauthor of Fault-Tolerance Techniques for SRAM-Based FPGAs (Springer, 2006) and Dynamic Reconfigurable Architectures and Transparent Optimization Techniques (Springer, 2010).