Recent News
November 2009: Article on FPGA power reduction accepted for publication in the ACM/SIGDA FPGA 2010 conference to be held at Monterey, CA:
J. H. Anderson, C. Ravishankar, "FPGA Power Reduction by Guarded Evaluation".
September 2009: Article on embedded/FPGA hardware security accepted for publication in the IEEE/ACM ASP-DAC 2010 conference to be held at Taipei, Taiwan:
J.H. Anderson, "A PUF design for secure FPGA-based embedded systems".
August 2009: Call for papers for the 2010 ACM Int'l Conference on FPGAs to be held at Monterey, CA in February 2010.
August 2009: Two articles published in the IEEE FPL 2009 conference held at Prague:
J. Anderson, Q. Wang, "Improving logic density through synthesis-inspired architecture" (PDF) and
S. Huda, M. Mallick, J. Anderson, "Clock gating architectures for FPGA power reduction" (PDF).
Biography
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.
Professor Jason H. Anderson received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from the Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering (ECE), University
of Toronto in 2005. He
received the M.A.Sc. degree from the University of Toronto, and the B.Sc. degree in Computer
Engineering from the University
of Manitoba.
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)
Teaching
ECE 1387 -
CAD for Digital Circuit
Synthesis and Layout (Graduate) (Spring '09, Fall'07,
Fall'06, Fall'05)
Course website for spring 2009
APS 105 - Computer Fundamentals (Undergraduate) (Fall 2009, Fall 2008)
Lecture on Sorting Algorithms [November 2008] (slides PDF)
ECE 241 - Digital Systems (Undergraduate) (Fall 2009)
Research
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.
Click here to meet the research team.
Publications and Patents
Service
Member of technical program committee:
Workshop chair for the FPGA 2009 conference.
Session chair:
FPL 2009, ICCAD 2007.
Reviewer for conferences and journals, including: IEEE Trans. on VLSI, IEEE Trans. on CAD, ACM Trans. on
Design Automation of Electronic Systems, ACM Trans. on
Reconfigurable Technology.
Contact
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.
