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Overview of Seminar by Dr. Benjamin Schaefer

The Inevitable Use of High Level Synthesis in Complex SoC Designs

	Speaker			Dr. Benjamin Schaefer, NEC Research Lab, Japan

	CECS Host			Elaheh Bozorgzadeh

	Location			Donald Bren Hall (DBH) 413

	Date & Time			June 11 , 2010 Lecture begins at 11:00 am (Lecture Cancelled)

	Abstract			ESL is becoming main stream when modeling complete SoCs in order to evaluate different architectural trade-offs and get some early performance estimates. These models are mainly described in SystemC. The central question that remains is if these models can ultimately be synthesized in order to further reduce the development cycle or if these models need to be manually described and integrated at the RT-level. This talk addresses how complete SoCs can be fully designed in C.

	Biography			Benjamin received his Ph.D from the University of Birmingham, UK in 2003 , where he investigated the acceleration of numerical intensive algorithms on reconfigurable computing platforms. He then moved to UCLA as a postdoctoral researcher working in the area of High Level synthesis and then moved to Seoul National University, Korea where he worked on thermal estimation and reduction issues in VLSI circuits. Since 2007 he is with NEC's Central Research Laboratory in Japan, working on System and High Level Synthesis.