丁香园AV

Research Interests

• Computing system design, including reconfigurable computing and application-specific architectures, design methodologies, and programming models
• Operating Systems for asymmetric/heterogeneous multicore systems
• Scalable FPGA Computer Aided Design Tools
• Reconfigurable Digital Microfluidics

Teaching Interests

• Computing Architecture and System Design
• Digital Logic
• Real Time and Embedded Systems

Selected Recent Publications

• Aws Ismail and Lesley Shannon FUSE: Front-end user framework for O/S abstraction of hardware accelerators, IEEE Int鈥檒 Conference on Field Custom Computing Machines, pages 170-177, May 2011.
• Jian Li, Marinko V. Sarunic, and L. Shannon. Scalable, High Performance Fourier Domain Optical Coherence Tomography: why FPGAs and not GPGPUs, IEEE International Conference on Field Programmable Custom Computing Machines, pages 49-56, May 2011.
• Farnaz Gharibian, Lesley Shannon, and Peter Jamieson. Finding System-Level Information and Analyzing its Correlation to FPGA Placement, International Conference on Field Programmable Logic & Applications, pages 544-549, August 2010.
• Jason Lee and Lesley Shannon. Predicting the Performance of Application-Specific Networks-on-Chip Implemented on FPGAs. ACM International Symposium on FPGAs, pp. 23-32, Monterey, CA, February 2009.
• David Dickin and Lesley Shannon. Extending the SIMPPL SoC Architectural Framework to Support Application-Specific Architectures on Multi-FPGA Platforms. Appears in the IEEE International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors, July 2008.

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