Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Toronto
Welcome! I am a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) of the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering at the University of Toronto. My research centers on computer hardware design and I am with the Computer Engineering Research Group. In August 2008, Dr. Anderson joined the University of Toronto faculty as an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE).
From 2005-2008, he was an Adjunct Professor of ECE at UofT, teaching a graduate course on design automation
algorithms for digital circuit synthesis.
From 1997 through 2008, Jason was with Xilinx, Inc, where he worked on the research and development (R&D) of automated synthesis tools and flows for Xilinx field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). From 1997-2001 and for 2006, he was based at Xilinx headquarters in San Jose, CA, USA. From 2001-2005 and from 2006-2008, he was at the Xilinx Toronto Development Centre. In 2000, he received the Xilinx Ross Freeman Award for Technical Innovation: the top innovation award given by Xilinx. Prior to joining the UofT, he was a Principal Engineer and Manager at Xilinx, leading an R&D group with emphasis on improving tool run-time, FPGA speed, area and power-efficiency.
Dr. Anderson is a member of IEEE, ACM, and is a licensed Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) in the Province of Ontario.
Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
My research relates to computer hardware design, and
specifically to field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). An FPGA is a special kind of programmable computer
chip that can
be configured instantly by the
end-user to implement any
digital circuit. As such, FPGAs are much different than
traditional chips which are fabricated to perform a specific function.
FPGAs are a $5 billion dollar market today, and are used in
diverse applications including networking, automotive, consumer and
industrial electronics.
My work seeks to improve FPGAs from the area, speed,
power and ease-of-use perspectives by clever
innovations in FPGA circuits, architectures and tools. I am
also interested in
applications of FPGAs, particularly in area and power-constrained
settings such as embedded systems.
My other research interests lie in computer-aided design (CAD) algorithms for integrated circuits, digital design and circuits, computer architecture and software engineering.
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Mail:
Prof. Jason H. Anderson
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Toronto
10 King's College Road
Toronto, ON M5S 3G4 CANADA
Office: EA 314 (Engineering Annex)
Email: janders [at] eecg [dot] toronto [dot] edu
Tel: 416-946-7285 Fax: 416-946-8734
My calendar/availability can be viewed on-line here.