Vaughn Betz
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Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto
NSERC/Altera Industrial Research Chair in Programmable Silicon
Research Interests
- Computer-Aided Design
- FPGA architecture
- Hardware acceleration of important problems, such as packet processing and wireless communications
- The architecture of new programmable devices mixing concepts from FPGAs, processors and DSPs
Recent News
Prof. Betz is the Program Chair for the ACM International Symposium on FPGAs, to be held in Monterey, CA in Feb. 2013. Paper submission will be in early September; I hope to see your results at the conference!
I recently became the NSERC/Altera Industrial Research Chair in Programmable Silicon.
Press release
Faculty News
A panel of experts has chosen the FPGA 20: the twenty-five most influential papers from 20 years of the International FPGA Symposium. Six of my papers are included in the FPGA 25.
Read more on the University of Toronto's impact in the FPGA 20 (and the FPGA industry) here.
I recently co-chaired the FPGA 2012 workshop, which was on "FPGAs in 2032: Opportunities and Challenges for the Next 20 Years." Seven visionaries from industry and academia shared their thoughts, leading to a very interesting set of presentations and discussion. See the slides and video here.
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Research Interests
Biography and CV
Publications
Research and Design Students
Teaching
Free Software, including VPR and EasyGL
The FPGA Place-and-Route Challenge: a contest for the FPGA community - compare your routing area against the best achieved so far