DESIGN AUTOMATION AND RECONFIGURABLE COMPUTING LABORATORY (DARCLAB)
overview
The aim of this group is to do significant research in the areas of VLSI Design Automation and Reconfigurable Computing. Our goal is finding important problems, formulating the problems systematically, and solving them effectively. The target of our optimizations covers both hardware and software. This includes but is not limited to Electronic Design Automation (EDA) problems such as hardware synthesis problems (from system down to circuit level) and embedded software (compiler, operating system) optimization problems. One of the key aspects of our lab is that we only use high-level languages to build hardware circuits. The ultimate goal of the lab is to fully move away from low-level hardware description languages like Verilog or VHDL and only use C/C++, SystemC, Python or Matlab.
FACULTY LEAD
Dr. Benjamin Carrion Schaefer
schaferb@utdallas.edu
Phone: 972-883-4531
Office: ECSN 4.510
800 West Campbell Rd.
Mailstop: EC33
Richardson, TX 75080-3021
BIOGRAPHY
Benjamin Carrion Schaefer is an assistant professor of electrical engineering in Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science, at The University of Texas at Dallas
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Design methodologies for VLSI and embedded systems, modeling, analysis, synthesis, optimization and implementation of VLSI systems, automation of the design process and High-Level Synthesis (HLS).