PhD Dissertation:

Obtaining Performance and Programmability Using Reconfigurable Hardware for Media Processing

Technical Reports:

• Determining Computational Bottleneck for Media Processing (MIT Media Lab, 2001)

• Analytical Performance Modeling of Datapath for Superscalar Processors (MIT Media Lab, 2000)

• The Myth of Reconfigurable Computing  - How to Compare Performance between Heterogeneous Computing Hardware (MIT Media Lab, 1999)

• FPGA Advantages and Limitations (MIT Media Lab, 1999)

• Behavioral Synthesis for FPGA: Pros and Cons (MIT Media Lab, 1998)

• Texture Mapping Algorithms and Hardware Implementation Considerations (MIT Media Lab, 1996)

• Visual Communications: Past, Present, and Future (MIT Media Lab, 1996)

• FPGA Design Constraints - Lessons Learned through Experience

• Computational Requirement for JPEG Progressive Mode (MIT Media Lab, 1996)

• Reed-Soloman Codes in HDTV (MIT Media Lab, 1995)

• MOBO: A Motion Estimation Subsystem for Cheops Imaging System (Technical Report, MIT Media Lab, 1994)

• REMAP: A Motion Compensation, Image Warping, and Z-Buffering Subsystem for Cheops Imaging System (Technical Report, MIT Media Lab, 1994)

• Resistivity, Temperature Coefficient and Strain Sensitivity of Resistance of Thin Nickel Films as Thermometers for Biomedical Applications (MIT Thesis, M.S., Mat. Sci&E, May, 1989)

Talks:

• Reconfigurable Architectures and Application Development for Media Processing (Presentation at TRW, Oct. 18, 2002)

• Obtaining Performance and Programmability Using Reconfigurable Hardware for Media Processing (Ph.D. thesis defense, MIT Media Laboratory, Sep. 28, 2001)

• Programming Tools for Reconfigurable Computing (MIT Media Lab Luncheon Series, July 7, 2000)

• The Internet and Communication  (New England-R.O.C. Scholar & Student Academic Forum, Oct. 28, 1995)

Tutorials:

• Behavioral Coding for Synthesis 

• VHDL Primer

• Introduction to Image/Video Coding Standards (Cambridge Journal, an MIT-ROCSA publication) (in Chinese)

• Tutorials on Error Correcting Codes (Hitachi Advanced Research Laboratory, 1992) 

In Article:

Scientific American (reference to be furnished).

Design Documents: (Media-Lab Only)

• Design Methodology for CHIDI Reconfigurable Processor

• VHDL Templates for CHIDI and State Machine

• Behavioral Compilation Examples

• Functional and Design Specification of Remap
      Demo program for Remap
      Remap Datapath and Control (in AHDL)

• Functional and Design Specification of Mobo
      Demo program for Mobo
      Mobo Datapath and Control (in AHDL)

• A Collection of FAQs on Hardware/Design Tools Issues

• Setting up EDA (Synopsys, Altera Maxplus II, Xilinx Alliance) Tools (installation, licensing, environment variables).