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Bio

I am a computer engineer. I received my BASc from the University of Waterloo in 2006 and my MASc from the University of Toronto in 2008.

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Research

My research interest involves application acceleration through the use of FPGA and automatic hardware generation. For my Masters research, I created a generator to automatically create hardware to solve linear system of equations for any FPGA. Designs created for FPGA are often fixed to the specific platform because of the memory architectures. The generator can create customized designs for the target FPGA platform while maximizing performance.

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Supervisors

• Jonathan Rose
• Vaughn Betz

Conference publications

• Wei Zhang, Vaughn Betz and Jonathan Rose. “Portable and Scalable FPGA-Based Acceleration of a Direct Linear System Solver.” International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology, December 2008, Taipei, Taiwan.

Thesis

• "Portable and Scalable FPGA-Based Acceleration of a Direct Linear System Solver," Wei Zhang M.A.Sc. Thesis, University of Toronto, 2008. PDF

Teaching Assistantships

ECE243 - Computer Organization - Winter 2007, Winter 2008

ECE241 - Digital Systems - Fall 2006, Fall 2007

Contact Info

weizer(at)eecg.toronto.edu