ERSA'06: June 26, 2006 Schedule

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6:30am - 5:00pm:  Registration (Second Floor, Conference Lobby: 1-5)

08:30 - 08:45am:  WORLDCOMP'06 Opening Remarks
                  Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia (General Chair & Coordinator)
                  University of Georgia, Georgia, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

08:45 - 09:45am:  Keynote Lecture 1:
                  Erasing the Digital Divide: Putting Your Best Idea on the
                  $100 Laptop
                  Prof. Barry Vercoe
                  Founding Member of MIT Media Lab, MIT, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

09:50 - 10:50am:  Keynote Lecture 2:
                  The Reinvention of the Microprocessor
                  Dr. Chris Rowen
                  President and CEO, Tensilica, Inc., USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

10:50 - 11:20am:  Increasing Diversity and Participation in Advanced Computing
                  Dr. John R. Boisseau
                  Director, Texas Advanced Computing Center,
                  The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

11:20a - 12:20p:  Panel - Performance and Connectivity on the $100 Laptop
                  Panel Chair: Prof. Barry Vercoe, MIT Media Lab, MIT, USA
                  Panelists: Jim Gettys* and Michail Bletsas**
                  *Vice President, Software Engineering, OLPC
                  **Chief Connectivity Officer, OLPC
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)


12:45 - 01:00pm:  ERSA OPENING REMARKS
                  Toomas P. Plaks, ERSA Chair
                  LSBU, London, UK
                  (LOCATION: Conference Room G)

01:00 - 02:00pm:  ERSA KEYNOTE TALK:
                  Using Configurable Processors for High-Efficiency
                  Multiple-Processor Systems
                  Chris Rowen
                  President and CEO, Tensilica, Inc., USA


SESSION 1-ERSA:   DISTRIBUTED AND HETEROGENEOUS RECONFIGURABLE COMPUTING
                  Chair: Ronald F. DeMara, University of Central Florida, USA
                  June 26, 2006 (Monday); 2:00pm - 3:00pm
                  (LOCATION: Conference Room G)

02:00 - 02:20pm:  Dynamic Scheduling and Resource Management in Heterogeneous
                  Computing Environments with Reconfigurable Hardware
                  Steven P. Smith
                  QuickFlex, Inc., Austin, Texas, USA

02:20 - 02:40pm:  Searching RC5-Keys with Distributed Reconfigurable Computing
                  Dirk Koch, Matthias Koerber, and Juergen Teich
                  University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

02:40 - 03:00pm:  Exploiting Hierarchical Configuration to Improve Run-Time
                  MPSoC Task Assignment
                  Vincent Nollet*, Prabhat Avasare*, Diederik Verkest*,
                  Henk Corporaal**
                  *IMEC, Belgium
                  **Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands

03:00 - 03:30pm:  COFFEE BREAK


03:30 - 04:00pm:  DISTINGUISHED PAPER
                  Compile- and Run-Time Services for Distributed Heterogeneous
                  Reconfigurable Computing
                  Brian M. Holland*, James Greco, Ian A. Troxel, Gabe Barfield,
                  Vikas Aggarwal, and Alan D. George
                  University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA


SESSION 2-ERSA:   RECONFIGURABLE MULTIPROCESSORS AND SUPERCOMPUTING
                  Chair: Maya B. Gokhale, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
                  June 26, 2006 (Monday); 4:00pm - 6:00pm
                  (LOCATION: Conference Room G)

04:00 - 04:20pm:  An FPGA Based Co-Design Architecture for MIMO Lattice Decoders
                  Cao Liang, Jing Ma, and Xinming Huang
                  University of New Orleans, New Orleans, USA

04:20 - 04:40pm:  Reconfigurable Turbo/Viterbi Channel Decoder in the Coarse-Grained
                  Montium Architecture
                  Gerard K. Rauwerda*, Gerard J. M. Smit, Casper R. W. van Benthem,
                  and Paul M. Heysters
                  University of Twente, The Netherlands
                  Recore Systems, The Netherlands

04:40 - 05:00pm:  A Column Arrangement Algorithm for a Coarse-Grained
                  Reconfigurable Architecture
                  Yuanqing Guo, Cornelis Hoede, and Gerard J. M. Smit
                  University of Twente, The Netherlands

05:00 - 05:20pm:  Mapping and Performance of DSP Benchmarks on a Medium-Grain
                  Reconfigurable Architecture
                  Mitchell J. Myjak, Jonathan K. Larson, and Jose G. Delgado-Frias
                  Washington State University, USA

05:20 - 05:40pm:  A Parametric Study of Scalable Interconnects on FPGAs
                  Daihan Wang*, Hiroki Matsutani, Masato Yoshimi, Hideharu Amano,
                  and Michihiro Koibuchi
                  Keio University, Japan
                  National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan

05:40 - 06:00pm:  Area and Delay Estimation for FPGA Implementation of
                  Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Architectures
                  Leipo Yan, Thambipillai Srikanthan, and Niu Gang
                  Nanyang Technological University, Singapore


06:00 - 9:00pm:   TWO TUTORIALS  (planned)

                  CONFERENCE TUTORIAL A
                  Alice: Using Animation to Teach Introductory Programming
                  Dr. H. Keith Edwards
                  University of Hawaii - Hilo, USA
                  June 26, 2006 (Monday)
                  (LOCATION: Meeting Room 7)

                  CONFERENCE TUTORIAL B
                  An Introduction to Biometric Recognition Systems
                  Dr. M. Deriche
                  KFUPM, Saudi Arabia
                  June 26, 2006 (Monday)
                  (LOCATION: Meeting Room 8)


09:00 - 11:00pm:  CONFERENCE RECEPTION DINNER - June 26 (Monday)
                  (LOCATION: Meeting Rooms 1-5)

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