FAIRFAX, VA - April 16, 2006 — Reconfigurable Computing leader DSPlogic, Inc. today announced that George Mason University will use DSPlogic’s Reconfigurable Computing Toolbox for MATLAB™ and Simulink™ to help teach their graduate-level Computer Arithmetic course.
The course, titled “Computer Arithmetic: Implementations in Hardware and Software” (ECE 645), is being taught by Dr. Kris Gaj in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at George Mason University. The course covers computer arithmetic as applied to the design of general-purpose microprocessors, co-processors, application-specific integrated circuits, and field programmable gate-arrays (FPGAs) for cryptography, coding, digital signal processing, and other applications. DSPlogic’s RC Toolbox will be used by GMU students to program custom FPGA-based software accelerators.
“DSPlogic’s software will help students to learn important hardware and software tradeoffs when accelerating real-world computing algorithms by moving computationally intensive tasks to an FPGA co-processor,” said Dr. Kris Gaj, Professor at GMU. Michael Babst, President of DSPlogic, adds that “An important part of learning computer arithmetic is to understand parallelism in computational algorithms. The graphical nature of our programming language will help students to easily visualize and express that parallelism in their programs, something that can be difficult to do with C-based languages. This will make it easier for students get the best performance from their FPGA co-processor programs.”
About the Reconfigurable Computing Toolbox
The Reconfigurable Computing Toolbox for MATLAB and Simulink provides an easy way to accelerate computationally intensive software applications using today’s reconfigurable computing platforms. DSPlogic's graphical programming language allows rapid implementation of high-performance, portable applications. The Reconfigurable Computing Toolbox allows users to off-load computationally intensive tasks to one or more FPGA coprocessors while maintaining simple software interfaces.
For information about the availability of DSPlogic’s Reconfigurable Computing Toolbox contact DSPlogic at inforequest@dsplogic.com.
About DSPlogic, Inc.
DSPlogic is a leading provider of high-quality, FPGA-based, reconfigurable computing and signal processing products and services. DSPlogic’s set of algorithm-to-FPGA design tools helps customers rapidly develop verified algorithm implementations using today’s leading FPGA platforms. DSPlogic serves organizations ranging from small start-ups, to Fortune 500 companies, to U.S. government agencies. Go to www.dsplogic.com for more information.
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