MIT Team Wins MEMOCODE 2007 Hardware/Software Co-Design Contest.Bluespec Environment Enabled Winning Design WALTHAM, Mass. -- A five-member team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business, (MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology ) took home the winner's cup in the second annual hardware/software co-design contest sponsored by the ACM-IEEE International Conference on Formal Methods and Models for Co-Design (MEMOCODE MEMOCODE Conference on Formal Methods and Programming Models for Codesign 2007). The winning design was completed using the Bluespec electronic system level (ESL) synthesis environment. Nirav Dave, Kermin Fleming, Myron King, Michael Pellauer and Muralidaran Vijayaraghavan from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab Artificial Intelligence Lab - MIT AI Lab were voted winners of the design contest by MEMOCODE 2007 attendees, held in June in Nice, France. Nine teams of United States and European university students started the contest, with only MIT and Virginia Tech submitting a final design. "We are tremendously proud of the MIT team and our ESL synthesis environment," says Charlie Hauck, Bluespec's chief executive officer (CEO). "They were able to show emphatically the ease with which our tool can enable hardware-software partitioning and rapid architectural exploration." The challenge was to implement a high-performance matrix-matrix multiplication (MMM) using any hardware and software design methodology targeting any field programmable gate array See FPGA. (FPGA) development platform. Contest organizers Forrest Brewer from the University of Santa Barbara and James C. Hoe of Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University, at Pittsburgh, Pa.; est. 1967 through the merger of the Carnegie Institute of Technology (founded 1900, opened 1905) and the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research (founded 1913). provided a software-only starter reference solution for the Xilinx XUP development board. A description of the contest and a summary of the completed solutions are available here: http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~jhoe/distribution/mc07contest/. MEMOCODE 2007 gathers researchers and practitioners in the field of the design of modern hardware and software systems to explore ways in which future design methods can benefit from new results on formal methods. It is sponsored by the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Embedded Systems (SIGBED) and Special Interest Group on Design Automation (SIGDA), IEEE Circuits and Systems Society The IEEE Circuits and Systems Society is a society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). It is also known by the acronym IEEE CASS. In the hierarchy of IEEE, the Circuits and Systems Society is one of close to 40 technical societies organized under (CAS) and IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation The IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation, also called IEEE CEDA, or Council on EDA, or just CEDA, is an organizational unit of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers(IEEE). (CEDA). About Bluespec Bluespec Inc. manufactures industry standards-based Electronic Design Automation (EDA) toolsets that significantly raise the level of abstraction The level of complexity by which a system is viewed. The higher the level, the less detail. The lower the level, the more detail. The highest level of abstraction is the single system itself. for hardware design while retaining the ability to automatically synthesize high-quality RTL, without compromising speed, power or area. The toolsets, including the only ESL synthesis tools focused on control and complex datapaths, allow ASIC and FPGA designers to reduce design time, bugs and re-spins that contribute to product delays and escalating costs. More information can be found on www.bluespec.com or by calling (781) 250-2200. Copyright 2007 Bluespec Inc. Bluespec is a trademark of Bluespec Inc. All other brands, products, or service names may be trademarks or service marks of the companies with which they are associated. |
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