Ambric's Partner Universities

University of Washington

The sponsoring professor, Professor Scott Hauck is an associate professor in the University of Washington's Department of Electrical Engineering, and an adjunct professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. He is also the director of the Adaptive Computing Machines and Emulators Lab. His work has been focused around FPGAs, chips that can be programmed and reprogrammed using hardware description languages to implement complex digital logic. Domains of research have included medical imaging, image processing, reconfigurable subsystems, asynchronous circuits, design tool compilers and system partitioning. Prof. Hauck and Prof. Andre DeHon are editors of a just released book on reconfigurable computing entitled, "Reconfigurable Computing: The Theory and Practice of FPGA-Based Computation", published by Morgan Kaufmann/Elsevier, 2008. Graduate students have already begun thesis work using Ambric MPPA technology and development tools. For more information visit http://www.ee.washington.edu/people/faculty/hauck/, http://www.ee.washington.edu/, and http://www.cs.washington.edu/.

Portland State University

The sponsoring professor is Professor Dan Hammerstrom, associate dean for Research, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science, Portland State University. His research interests center on intelligent computing, based on applying lessons from biological systems. Tough computer science problems involve the interaction of a system with the real world, which, in part, involves a transformation and understanding of data at the boundary between the real world and the digital world. Graduate students are currently engaged in research work using Ambric MPPA technology and development tools. For more information visit http://www.pdx.edu/cecs/.

Halmstad University

Sponsoring the program at Halmstad University is Professor Bertil Svensson, who is the director of the Centre for Research on Embedded Systems (CERES), a joint university/industry research center for the development of technology and applications for embedded computer and communication systems. CERES is working in collaboration with industrial partners with applications that typically include high performance or power sensitive real-time data processing, or wireless dynamically connected sensors and actuators, or both. Eleven Swedish companies participate in CERES including Ericsson and Volvo. Graduate students will begin research work using Ambric technology in January 2008. For more information, visit http://ceres.hh.se/.