Intelligent Computing & Codesign Lab

Andrew Huh from University of Michigan, doing lab internship at ICCL lab as part of the UNIST Global program.

“At Bell Labs, the first thing they told us was that we were there to use our brains, not for just for our engineering skills,” said Chen. “Now that’s what I tell my students.”

via http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-blogs/other/4414629/Taiwan-reversing-brain-drain

Nowadays, I find EETimes articles are much more interesting than those of CACM. The above quote is something that reminds me of our mission as researchers in academia.

Learning Processor-Generator

Automatic processor generation using a commercial state-of-the-art tool (Synopsys LISA tool)

Programming GPU

Machine Learning algorithm (HMM) on GPU (do something similar to: https://code.google.com/p/hmm-cuda/)

For further detail, please ask Prof. Lee at EB2 #501-5, or drop him a line.

In this year’s DATE (Design, Automation & Test in Europe), which is the largest European conference in the EDA (Electronic Design Automation) field, we have contributed two interactive presentation (IP) papers, which are published in 4 pages each and will appear in the IEEE Xplore as well. Congrats to those participants!

Here is the paper information (follow the links for full text).

• Fast Shared On-Chip Memory Architecture for Efficient Hybrid Computing with CGRAs, by J Lee, Y Jeong, and S Seo.
• Compiling Control-Intensive Loops for CGRAs with State-Based Full Predication, by K Han, K Choi, and J Lee.

At a cozy Italian restaurant near Ulsan University.

With Emacs you are expected to have it open 24/7 and live inside the program, almost everything you do can be done from there. You write your own extensions, use it for note taking, organisation, games, programming, shell access, file access, listening to music, web browsing. It takes weeks and weeks till you will be happy with it and then you will learn new stuff all the time. You will be annoyed when you don’t have access to it and constantly change your config. You won’t be able to use other people’s Emacs versions easily and it won’t just be installed. It uses Lisp, which is great. You can make it into anything you want it to be. (anything, at all)

With vim, it’s almost always pre-installed. It’s fast. You open up a file, do a quick edit and then quit. You can work with the basic setup if you are on someone else’s machine. It’s not quite so editable; but it’s still far better than most text editors. It recognises that most of the time you are reading/editing not typing and makes that portion faster. You don’t suffer from emacs pinkie. It’s not so infuriating. It’s easier to learn.

Even though I use Emacs all day every day (and love it) unless you intend to spend a lot of time in the program you choose I would pick vim

via http://stackoverflow.com/a/1433315

The best summary that I have seen on the differences between the two editors. Conclusion? You need both!

Congratulations, Toan!

Yesterday, January 9, Toan successfully defended his thesis on Runtime and Install-time Binary Translation for Reconfigurable Accelerators. Though there are some minor things he has to finish before he can get the approval signatures from the committee members, the thesis committee was in general agreement that he did a good job for a masters degree, based on his achievements during the graduate program and his thesis writing.

Now that he is seeking an industry career at the moment, the ICCL lab wishes him a good luck in his career and a good fortune too! 🙂

Important Notice

To students taking CSE211: Introduction to Programming Languages, in the 3rd term of 2012.

The required textbook for this course is changed to Concepts of Programming Languages by Robert W. Sebesta, 10th edition, Addison-Wesley. You can purchase the textbook at the campus bookstore or online.

Jongeun Lee, The Instructor

Seminar Schedule for September/October (Place is EB1 E204 unless noted otherwise.)

Cloud Random Access Network (C-RAN)

• Speaker: Dr. Saewoong Bahk, Seoul National University
• Date: September 19
• Title: Evolution of Wi-Fi on Cloud-RAN: Complementary Utilization of Unlicensed Spectrum

Flash Memory Technology

• Speaker: Dr. Taehoon Kim, Intel-Micron joint R&D team for memory devices
• Date: September 26
• Title: Challenges & Future Directions for Flash & Emerging Nonvolatile memories for 2D & 3D realization

Automotive

• Speaker: Dr. Seungyoung Ahn, KAIST
• Date: October 10
• Title: Future Green Transportation with Wireless Power Transfer Technology

Mobile Application Processor

• Speaker: Dr. Jeong-Ho Woo, Texas Instruments
• Date: October 23
• Title: Design Paradigm of Mobile Application Processor

Multiprocessor Architecture: Design and Implementation

• Speaker: Dr. Jongmyon Kim, University of Ulsan
• Date: October 24
• Title: Mobile Multimedia Supercomputer Design

Our paper titled “Software-Managed Automatic Data Sharing for Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Coprocessors” is accepted as an oral presentation in the International Conference on Field Programming Technology (FPT) 2012, which will be held in Seoul, Dec 10~12.

Congratulations to those who participated in this work!