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About me

Wim Vanderbauwhede, Lecturer at the Department of Computing Science of the University of Glasgow. Previously, Research Fellow at the University of Strathclyde and design and modelling engineer in a microelectronics company. Here's a CV and a list of publications and patents.

Research

Gannet: a service-based System-on-Chip architecture

My research currently focuses on the Gannet project. This project aims at creating a novel System-on-Chip (SoC) architecture for heterogeneous multicore systems that is reconfigurable at task level and programmable at a high level of abstractions. The architecture combines Networks-on-Chip, reconfigurable logic and concepts from coarse-grain dataflow machines and functional programming languages into a service-based SoC. Read more...

Other research interests

• FPGA computing and high-level FPGA programming: there is a growing interest in FPGA technology for accelerating computation in various ways. I am in particular interested in high-level programming of FPGAs, i.e. using languages at a higher abstraction level than Verilog or VHDL. In particular, I work with Mitrion-C and have developped MORA assembly, a low-level language for the MORA soft processor array, as well as developing the Gannet platform into a framework for library-based FPGA programming.
• Wireless Sensor Networks: in general, these are resource-constrained computational nodes forming an ad-hoc network. I am interested in particular in the heterogeneous case were different nodes in the network can perform different tasks.

For more information, see the Research page.

I am associated with the Embedded, Networked, and Distributed Systems research group. This group systematically explores architectures, models, algorithms, measurement, and control of networked/distributed systems. The group is especially interested in large–scale systems, based on both wireless and wireline interconnection technologies, as well as high–performance system interconnects.

Teaching and Supervision

I teach Compilers at DCS L4 and Embedded Software at the Institute for System Level Integration. I supervise PhD, EngD and MSc students both at DCS and iSLI.

Programming languages

I am a strong proponent of the use of dynamically typed interpreted languages, aka. scripting languages such as Perl, Ruby or Python. I have used Perl extensively in my various jobs, and for my current research work I have opted for Ruby.

I also have a keen interest in functional languages such as Haskell, Scheme and of course Gannet.

For system-level modelling I use C++ with the SystemC libraries. And for embedded software I use C, for want of an alternative.

Linux

I'm a long-time Linux and Mac user and have installed Linux on various PowerPC machines (Apple Macs). This page has some (outdated) information about Linux/PPC.

Rest of the world

Finally, in case you like a non–technical look at the world ...